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Athenaeum New Biography

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Abigail Adams : a life / Woody Holton.

Holton, Woody.
New York : Free Press, 2009.
xvii, 483 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B A211H		DUE 08-17-10

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All things at once / Mika Brzezinski ; with Daniel Paisner.

Brzezinski, Mika.
New York : Weinstein Books, c2009.
xvii, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B B8479		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Anne Boleyn : fatal attractions / George Bernard.

Bernard, G. W.
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2010.
p. cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B A6139B		DUE 08-17-10

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Anton Chekhov : a brother's memoir / Mikhail Chekhov ; translated by Eugene Alper.

Chekhov, Mikhail Pavlovich, 1865-1936.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
xvi, 238 p. ; 22 cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B C416		NOT CHECKD OUT

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An artist in treason : the extraordinary double life of General James Wilkinson / Andro Linklater.

Linklater, Andro.
New York : Walker, 2009.
viii, 392 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B W657L		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Ayn Rand and the world she made / Anne C. Heller.

Heller, Anne Conover.
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2009.
xiv, 567 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B R1518H		DUE 08-17-10

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Backing into forward : a memoir / Jules Feiffer.

Feiffer, Jules.
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2010.
440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

c2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B F330		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Beg, borrow, steal : a writer's life / Michael Greenberg.

Greenberg, Michael, 1952-
New York : Other Press, c2009.
vii, 217 p. ; 22 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B G834		DUE 08-25-10

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With Hitler to the end : the memoirs of Adolf Hitler's valet / Heinz Linge ; introduction by Roge

Linge, Heinz, 1913-1980.
London : Frontline Books ; New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., 2009.
xv, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B L646		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Blue genes : a memoir of loss and survival / Christopher Lukas.

Lukas, Christopher.
New York : Doubleday, c2008.
xv, 248 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

c2008

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B L9689		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Born round : the secret history of a full-time eater / Frank Bruni.

Bruni, Frank.
New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B B8374		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Boy alone : a brother's memoir / by Karl Taro Greenfeld.

Greenfeld, Karl Taro, 1964-
New York, NY : Harper, c2009.
355 p. ; 24 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B G836		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / David Remnick.

Remnick, David.
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
x, 656 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (part col.) ; 24 cm.

c2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B O121R		DUE 08-20-10

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Built of books : how reading defined the life of Oscar Wilde / Thomas Wright.

Wright, Thomas (Thomas Edward), 1973-
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B W648W		DUE 08-20-10

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The center of the universe : a memoir / Nancy Bachrach.

Bachrach, Nancy.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
234 p. ; 23 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B B126		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Cheerful money : me, my family, and the last days of Wasp splendor / Tad Friend.

Friend, Tad.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
351 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B F915		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Cheever : a life / Blake Bailey.

Bailey, Blake.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
x, 770 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B C415B		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Churchill / Paul Johnson.

Johnson, Paul, 1928-
New York : Viking, 2009.
181 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B C4765Jo		DUE 08-17-10

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City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and 70s / Edmund White.

White, Edmund, 1940-
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2009.
297 p. ; 22 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B W58216		DUE 08-25-10

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Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat, and obsession / Julie Powell.

Powell, Julie.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009
307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B P86964		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage / Elizabeth Gilbert.

Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
New York : Viking, 2010.
xvi, 285 p. ; 24 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B G369		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Confession of a Buddhist atheist / Stephen Batchelor.

Batchelor, Stephen.
New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2010.
xiv, 302 p. : map ; 25 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B B310		DUE 08-17-10

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The correspondence of Charles Darwin / [eds.: Frederick Burkhardt ...]. Vol. 2 1837 - 1843.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986.
XXXVI, 603 p. ; 24 cm.

1986

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B D258Dar		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Crazy love : a memoir / Leslie Morgan Steiner.

Steiner, Leslie Morgan.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
325 p. ; 21 cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B S8153		DUE 08-28-10

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Devotion : a memoir / Dani Shapiro.

Shapiro, Dani.
New York, NY : Harper, c2010.
245 p. ; 22 cm.

c2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B S5264		NOT CHECKD OUT

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An education.

Barber, Lynn, 1944-
New York : Atlas Books, 2010.
172 p. ; 18 cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B B233		DUE 08-19-10

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life / Lori D. Ginzberg.

Ginzberg, Lori D.
New York : Hill and Wang, c2009.
254 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B S792Gi		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Empress of Rome : the life of Livia / Matthew Dennison.

Dennison, Matthew.
London : Quercus, 2010.
x, 320 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B L762D		DUE 08-21-10

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Enemies of the people : my family's journey to America / Kati Marton.

Marton, Kati.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
x, 272 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B M3668		DUE 08-26-10

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Eureka man : the life and legacy of Archimedes / Alan Hirshfeld.

Hirshfeld, Alan.
New York : Walker, 2009.
viii, 242 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B A675H		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Family of secrets : the Bush dynasty, the powerful forces that put it in the White House, and what /

Baker, Russ, 1958-
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
viii, 577 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B B966B		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt / T.J. Stiles.

Stiles, T. J.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
xii, 719 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B V283S2		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Friedrich Nietzsche : a philosophical biography / Julian Young.

Young, Julian.
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
xvi, 649 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B N558Y		DUE 08-17-10

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Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.

Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
xxii, 375 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

c2008

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ATH BIOGRAPHY	B B644Br		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Fuller in her own time : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews /

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.
xxxvi, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

c2008

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B F952M2		DUE 08-24-10

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Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez : the early years / Ilan Stavans.

Stavans, Ilan.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B G166S		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Genius on the edge : the bizarre double life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted / Gerald Imber.

Imber, Gerald.
New York, NY : Kaplan Pub., c2010.
x, 389 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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c2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B H156I		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Going rogue : an American life / Sarah Palin.

Palin, Sarah, 1964-
New York : Harper, 2009.
413 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B P178		NOT CHECKD OUT

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A mountain of crumbs : a memoir / Elena Gorokhova.

Gorokhova, Elena.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2010, c2009.
308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B G683		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.

Beyer, Kurt.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B H778B		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The greatest trade ever : the behind-the-scenes story of how John Paulson defied Wall Street and ma /

Zuckerman, Gregory.
New York : Broadway Books, c2009.
295 p. : port. ; 25 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B P2862Z		ON HOLDSHELF

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The journal keeper : a memoir / Phyllis Theroux.

Theroux, Phyllis.
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2010.
281 p. ; 22 cm.

c2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B T3455		DUE 08-17-10

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Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic / Michael Scammell.

Scammell, Michael.
New York : Random House, c2009.
xxi, 689 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., geneal. table ; 25 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B K819S		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor mystery / Eric Ives.

Ives, E. W. (Eric William), 1931-
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
xiv, 367 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B G869I		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The lady queen : the notorious reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily / Nancy Gold

Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon.
New York : Walker, 2009.
365 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B J573G		NOT CHECKD OUT

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Larry's kidney : being the true story of how I found myself in China with my black sheep cousin and /

Rose, Daniel Asa.
New York, NY : William Morrow, c2009.
xiv, 305 p. ; 24 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B R72R		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China / Hannah Pakula.

Pakula, Hannah.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
xix, 787 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B C4313P		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The last founding father : James Monroe and a nation's call to greatness / Harlow Giles Unger.

Unger, Harlow G., 1931-
[Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, 2009.
xii, 388 p. : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 24 cm.

2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B M757U		NOT CHECKD OUT

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The last resort : a memoir of Zimbabwe / Douglas Rogers.

Rogers, Douglas, 1968-
New York : Harmony Books, c2009.
309 p. : map ; 25 cm.

c2009

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B R6314		DUE 08-27-10

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Leo and his circle : the life of Leo Castelli / Annie Cohen-Solal ; translated by Mark Polizzotti

Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
xxv, 540 p. : ill., geneal. table, maps ; 25 cm.

2010

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ATH NEW BOOK SHELF	B C37L		DUE 08-24-10

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