Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (An inspiring memoir of optimism in the
face of the debilitating effects of Parkinson's disease) NOT IN. PAPERBACK.
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Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (An inspiring memoir of optimism in the face of the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease) NOT IN PAPERBACK Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet (Author recounts his long struggle to emotionally connect with others) Chew On This by Eric Schlosser (Everything you don’t want to know about fast food) Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman (Spellbinding biography of the amazing Harry Houdini written by a fellow magician) How Football Explains America by Sal Palantonio (Insights and parallels of how football is a metaphor for our history and culture) NOT IN PAPERBACK Living on the Black by John Feinstein (Follows two major league pitchers through one season; Unique insights into the lifestyle of professional athletes) A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Powerful portrayal of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone; Some graphic imagery could be disturbing) Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court: by Jeffrey Toobin (Behind the scenes workings of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Rehnquist era) NOT IN PAPERBACK Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (True adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of W.W. II) Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals (Historic fist-hand account by one of the black students who integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957)
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