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Either Way I Win: God's Hope for Difficult Times
Lois Walfrid Johnson
Paperback, 8/1/2000
3 reviews

Who's Who in the Bible (Foulsham Know How)
Albert E. Sims
Paperback, 10/1/1992

John Lennon and the FBI Files
Phil Strongman
Paperback, 12/1/2003
2 reviews

The Wind in Both Ears
Angus Hector MacLean
Paperback, 6/1/1987

Orange Socks - How A Yuppie Goes Yogi
Valerie Simonson
Paperback, 1/29/1997
4 reviews

Don't Kiss Them Good-bye
Allison DuBois
Paperback, 11/1/2005
90 reviews

Gandhi and India (Interlink Illustrated Histories)
Gianni Sofri
Paperback, 11/1/1998
1 reviews

The Better Portion
Diane Straub
Paperback, 5/1/1999
3 reviews

The Plan
Pat Robertson
Hardcover, 10/1/1989
2 reviews

The Book of Saints: The Lives of the Saints According to the Liturgical Calendar
Victor Hoagland
Hardcover, 2/1/1986
6 reviews

Esther, A Woman of Strength & Dignity : A Bible Study Guide
Charles R. Swindoll
Paperback, 8/1/1997
18 reviews

Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
Audio CD, 10/3/2000
22 reviews

My Staggerford Journal
Jon Hassler
Hardcover, 12/7/1999
3 reviews

Tornado Down
Flt Lt John Peters; Flt Lt John Nichol
Paperback, 1/1/1993

Book of buffs, masters, mavens, and uncommon experts
Unknown Binding, 1/1/1980

12 American Women
Elizabeth Anticaglia
Hardcover, 2/1/1975

Angels Unawares: 20th Century Portraits
Thomas Stanley Matthews
Hardcover, 7/1/1985

Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California
Judi Culbertson
Paperback, 9/1/1989
4 reviews

The Road South: A Memoir
Nathan Hale Turner
Hardcover, 7/10/2002
9 reviews

Heartland
Mort Sahl
Hardcover, 1/1/1976
1 reviews

The Life and Humor of Robin Williams: A Biography
Jay David
Paperback, 10/6/1999
2 reviews

Only a Mother Could Love Him: My Life with and Triumph over ADD
Benjamin Polis
Paperback, 12/28/2004
10 reviews

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Children on 25 Words or Less
Terry Ryan
Paperback, 1/1/2004
122 reviews

How I Find Her
Genie Zeiger
Paperback, 4/30/2001
9 reviews

Mother Teresa: Living in Love
Glenna Hammer Moulthrop
Hardcover, 5/25/2000
1 reviews

Great Women in Sports
Anne Janette Johnson
Paperback, 5/1/1996
1 reviews

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Elisabeth Bumiller
Paperback, 10/29/1996
14 reviews

Murder on the Highway: The Viola Liuzzo Story
Beatrice Siegel
Hardcover, 1/1/1994

From the Mouth of the Monster: The Joel Rifkin Story
Robert Mladinich
Mass Market Paperback, 10/30/2001
6 reviews

The Ship That Sailed into the Living Room: Sex and Intimacy Reconsidered
Sonia Johnson
Paperback, 9/1/1991

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Germaine Greer
Hardcover, 3/13/1989
3 reviews

History Laid Bare: Love, Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding
Richard Zacks
Hardcover, 2/1/1994
7 reviews

I Remember
Audio Cassette, 11/1/1991

Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders
Steven F. Hayward
Hardcover, 10/4/2005
18 reviews

Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barbara Olson
Paperback, 11/25/2001
176 reviews

Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
Patricia Hampl
Paperback, 10/1/2007
7 reviews

The Shooting: A Memoir
Kemp Powers
Hardcover, 12/2/2004
4 reviews

Justice in the Mountains: Stories and Tales by a Vermont Lawyer
Deane C. Davis
Paperback, 6/1/1980
1 reviews

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez
Mass Market Paperback, 1/1/1983
72 reviews

The Impossible Takes a Little Longer: The Triumphant Story of Victory Over Alcohol
Harold Hill
Paperback, 1/1/1985

Pontiac Chief of the Ottawas
Jane Fleischer
School & Library Binding, 7/1/1979

The Survival of Jan Little: 2
John Man
Hardcover, 3/23/1987
1 reviews

Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57-60
Ann Evory
Hardcover, 1/1/1976

A Personal Record
Joseph Conrad
Paperback, 1/1/1982

Green Henry
Gottfried Keller
Paperback, 10/1/2003

Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood
Barbara Wilson
Paperback, 3/15/1998
15 reviews

Pushkin
Elaine Feinstein
Hardcover, 10/12/1998

I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems
Maya Angelou
Hardcover, 5/13/1997
3 reviews

United States Authors Series - Emily Dickinson (United States Authors Series)
Ferlazzo
Board book, 6/1/1976

The Remarkable Lives of 100 Women Writers and Journalists (20th Century Women)
Brooke Bailey
Hardcover, 12/1/1994

Voltaire
Wayne Andrews
Hardcover, 6/1/1981

Strangers: A Family Romance
Emma Tennant
Hardcover, 5/1/1999
1 reviews

Ian Hamilton in Conversation With Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson
Paperback, 9/1/2002

No Place Safe
Kim Reid
Paperback, 10/1/2007
8 reviews

Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
Jean Said Makdisi
Hardcover, 7/17/2006
5 reviews

Rogue Warrior
Richard Marcinko
Mass Market Paperback, 1/1/1997
158 reviews

Stranger to the Ground
Richard Bach
Hardcover, 10/1/1983
18 reviews

Here and Nowhere Else : Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family (Concord Library Book)
Jane Brox
Paperback, 5/7/1996
2 reviews

Waist-High in the World
Nancy Mairs
Hardcover, 1/20/1997
6 reviews

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (MAXNotes Literature Guides) (MAXnotes)
Anita Price Davis
Paperback, 12/1/1994
303 reviews

Tom Stoppard: A Life
Ira Bruce Nadel
Hardcover, 6/1/2002
2 reviews

Presenting Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Young Adult Authors Series)
Stover
Hardcover, 3/14/1997

The Invention of Solitude: A Memoir
Paul Auster
Paperback, 5/5/1988
15 reviews

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott
Hardcover, 4/27/1993
152 reviews

Norm Abram's New House
Norm Abram
Paperback, 6/1/1996
4 reviews

The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
Hardcover, 7/1/1989

Who's Who in Military History
John Keegan
Paperback, 3/1/1987
1 reviews

Should Veteran Status Be Dependent on a Kangaroo Court?
Burt Young
Paperback, 5/1/2003

Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi
Salam Pax
Paperback, 10/1/2003
12 reviews

Dear Departed: A Memoir
Marguerite Yourcenar
Paperback, 12/1/1992

G del: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics
John Casti
Hardcover, 9/20/2000
14 reviews

HITLER PA
Charles Bracelen Flood
Paperback, 4/5/1990
7 reviews

The Shallow Grave: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
Walter Gregory
Hardcover, 3/1/1987

Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit
David A. Traill
Paperback, 4/15/1997
7 reviews

Cezanne
Ambroise Vollard
Paperback, 9/1/1984

Celestine: Voices from a French Village
Gillian Tindall
Paperback, 3/1/1997
5 reviews

Barcelona The Great Enchantress (Directions)
Robert Hughes
Paperback, 9/18/2007
8 reviews

One Hundred Great Indians Through the Ages
H. N. Verma
Paperback, 4/1/1992

Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
Paperback
82 reviews

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien
Mass Market Paperback, 6/2/1992
32 reviews

The Presidents of the United States of America
Nicholas Best
Hardcover, 4/1/1996
4 reviews

First Acts: A Memoir
Benjamin Lawrence Reid
Hardcover, 10/1/1988

Great Upon the Mountain: The Story of Crazy Horse, Legendary Mystic and Warrior
Vinson Brown
Hardcover, 3/1/1975

Framers of the Constitution
Hardcover, 8/1/1986

Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion (Random House Large Print (Paper))
David Brinkley
Paperback, 10/22/1996
5 reviews

Madame Secretary: The Story of Madeleine Albright (Notable Americans)
Jeremy Byman
Library Binding, 12/1/1997

President Kennedy Has Been Shot (PB)
The Newseum
Paperback, 11/1/2004
13 reviews

Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Linda Greenhouse
Hardcover, 5/2/2005
31 reviews

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
Joe Klein
Paperback, 2/11/2003
59 reviews

Assignments in Africa: Reflections, Descriptions, Guesses
Per Wastberg
Hardcover, 10/1/1986

Season In Paradise (A Harvest Book)
Breyten Breytenbach
Paperback, 9/28/1994

SANGOMA: My Odyssey Into the Spirit World of Africa
James Hall
Paperback, 9/12/1995
9 reviews

TOUCHING SPIRIT: A Journey of Healing and Personal Resurrection
Elizabeth K. Stratton
Hardcover, 10/4/1996

Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Paperback, 4/2/2002
343 reviews

Great Farini: The High-Wire Life of William Hunt
Shane Peacock
Paperback, 12/1/1996
1 reviews

The New Grove Handel (The Composer biography series)
Winton Dean
Hardcover, 1/1/1983
1 reviews

Mel Gibson: Man on a Mission
Wensley Clarkson
Hardcover, 9/1/2004
6 reviews

My Stroke of Luck
Kirk Douglas
Paperback, 1/1/2002
14 reviews

Goodbye Jumbo: Hello Cruel World
Louie Anderson
Audio Cassette, 9/1/1993
4 reviews

Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Great (The Achievers)
Thomas R. Raber
Library Binding, 4/1/1991
1 reviews