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Cherry
Mary Karr
$24.95 / HBS $19.96

From the author of The Liar's Club: the vibrant-often hilarious-story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming of age.

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Dava Sobel
$14.00pb / HBS $11.20

Galileo's daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial and persecution. Drawing upon remarkable surviving letters that Virginia wrote to her father, Sobel has written a fascinating history, and a touching account of a father-daughter relationship.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

A wrenching, funny, and stylistically groundbreaking story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Also a dead-on account of early-nineties Gen-X hoopla, from the perspective of a self-parodying spokesperson.

Hitler 1937-1945:Nemesis
Ian Kershaw
$35.00 / HBS $28.00

The climax and conclusion of one of the most widely read biographies of all time.

Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey
Octavio Paz
$22.00 / HBS $17.60

From the Nobel Prize-winning essayist and poet, a memoir--the story of the evolution of Paz's political ideas.

Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
Richard Ben Cramer
$28.00pb / HBS $22.40

A breathtaking biography of one of the century's great icons, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What It Takes.

A Life in the 20th Century: fInnocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
$27.00 / HBS $21.60

The long-awaited memoir of America's most renowned historian.

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik
$24.95 / HBS $19.96

The comic-romantic adventures of an American family in Paris, by The New Yorker writer and author of the magazine's popular "Paris Journal" column.

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Jane Goodall
$14.95pb / HBS $11.96

Goodall explores her deepest beliefs in a memoir that takes her from the London blitz to Louis Leakey's famous excavations in Africa and then into the Gombe jungle. Exploring the challenges of both science and the soul, she offers a heartfelt and optimistic message.

Rimbaud: A Biography
Graham Robb
$35.00 / HBS $28.00

Explorer, mercenary, gun runner, and companion to slave traders, the poet's life was stranger than any fiction. Graham Robb succeeds in reconciling his later adventures with his earlier artistic achievements.

W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
David Levering Lewis
$35.00 / HBS $28.00

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that the Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece."

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