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All Editions	Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson (396 reviews ) Popular Tags: education,, emotional, fiction ...more education, , emotional , fiction , girl education , human rights , motivation , non fiction , non-fiction biographical , pakistan
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Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Described by friends and relatives as smar...more

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Slightly Out of Focus (Modern Library War)

Robert Capa

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In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war raging in Europe. In these pages, Capa rec...more

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20th century , biography , military , modern , non-fiction biographical , photography , photojournalism , war photographers , world war ii , world war, 1939-1945

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The World Is My Home: A Memoir

James A. Michener

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James A. Michener was “a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, energetic, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart” (The New York Times Book Review). Now, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this literary legend’s birth, here is the story of his remarkable life, told by the man himself.In this exce...more

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