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Man on wire

2008
Philippe Petit, a French street performer, tells the story of how he planned and executed a walk on a cable rigged between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. Includes photographs taken by Petit's friends and accomplices.

No time to lose

a life in pursuit of deadly viruses
2012
Microbiologist Peter Piot describes studying the Ebola virus in Central Africa in the 1970s, and traveling through Africa when the AIDS epidemic broke out.

Moonlight on linoleum

a daughter's memoir
2012
Terry grew up the oldest of six girls where she attended twelve schools in eleven years as her stepfather moved his family often so he could continue to get work in the oil fields. Terry's mother was a free spirit, hardly ever at home, and she repeatedly left Terry in charge of the household and her five younger sisters.

Chosen by a horse

a memoir
2006
When Susan Richards agrees to care for an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA she soon finds out that instead of nursing the horse back to health, the horse is really nursing her through her memories of the past and her difficult life.

The Case of the Green River killer

2007
Describes the investigation and prosecution of Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River serial murderer, in Washington State.

Rick Springfield

1984
A biography of musician and actor, Rick Springfield, an Australian import who came to the United States and became a superstar.

Den of lions

memoirs of seven years
1994
Former hostage Terry Anderson's memoir of how he survived seven years of captivity in Lebanon.

By George

the autobiography of George Foreman
1995
Autobiography of boxing champion George Foreman, telling about his troubled childhood, his early triumphs, his marriages, and his relationship with God, and chronicling his comeback after ten years out of the ring which culminated with his recapture of boxing's crown in 1994.

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