Sidney Schwab
The most dramatic-and seemingly glamorous-of medical fields, surgery captivates the public's imagination. Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of ... [... more]
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Alan Govenar
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history-the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person ... [... more]
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Merrill B. Twining
The Battle for Guadalcanal "A VIVID NARRATIVE . . . A splendid first-person account of the costly campaign that enabled Allied forces to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese in World War II's Pacific theater." , the military professional can [... more]
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Mike Mason
In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this Gold Medallion Award winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly readable, first-person style, Mason's writing stimulates readers' thoughts ... [... more]
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Laura Palmer
LAURA PALMER is the author of Shrapnel in the Heart and collaborated on five other books, the most recent being To Catch a Predator with NBC's Chris Hansen. She lives in New York City. The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ... [... more]
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Peter Petre
In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their ... [... more]
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Michaele Weissman
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that ... [... more]
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Carol Hymowitz
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that ... [... more]
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Janice Boddy
This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; ... [... more]
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Michael M. Baden
These are but three of the shocking revelations in Dr. Michael Baden's first-person, no-holds-barred account of... Confessions of a Medical Examiner * The deaths of John Belushi and Elvis Presley were far more complex than anyone has let on. * ... [... more]
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David Blight
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and ... [... more]
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John Bul Dau
This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle-indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by ... [... more]
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