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Meet Anchee Min, author of the internationally bestselling memoir Red Azalea, who will read from her eagerly awaited sequel, The Cooked Seed - now available in paperback. Min shares the next chapter of her life, going from the violence and deprivation of her homeland China to the sudden bounty of America - without language, money or a clear path. |
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Political journalist and author Fred Martin has devoted the last 20 years to researching Abraham Lincoln at the Library of Congress, state historical societies, archives, and libraries across the nation. In his new book, Martin relates the story of the most important election in the history of the United States, when the fate of the Union and the emancipation of slaves were at stake. Step by step, he goes through Lincoln's presidency, and shows how Lincoln mastered language, and how his words changed public perspective, drove home emancipation, reignited the ideals of freedom, and saved democratic government. |
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Meet Nitza Agam, whose gripping memoir, set in San Francisco and Israel, crisscrosses the ocean as she finds true love - only to face the shocking loss of her beloved to the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The pain is so unbearable that Agam must leave Israel. But the love and loss never leave her. This is the tale of how she finds herself - as an adolescent, a young woman, a mother, a wife, and a writer. |
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