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April 2010
Character Study
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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
Norris Church Mailer
The sixth and last wife of Norman Mailer, Norris Church Mailer, met the
late writer in 1975, when she was 26 and he twice her age; they were
married for 27 years. Her memoir is the story of a series of emancipations:
from the constraints of her loving but limiting parents and from her
inhibitions about writing and creating art. $26.00 Release date April 6th
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Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir
Wendy Burden
The great, great, great, great grand daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish
peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. Rife with
humor, heartbreak, family intrigue, and booze, Dead End Gene Pool
offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of old money and gives
truth to an old maxim: The rich are different. $26.00
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The Comet & the Tornado
Reflections on the
Legacy of Randy Pausch, the Last Lecture & the Creation
of Our Carnegie Mellon Dream Fullfillment Factory
Donald Marinelli
Donald Marinelli recounts his remarkable journey from Carnegie
Mellon's drama department, through the years building the ETC with
Randy Pausch, to today, as he helms the center on his own and leads its
worldwide expansion. Central to his story are the six years he and Randy Pausch shared an office where their differences, commonalities and
priorities helped shape the philosophy of the ETC. $19.95
Release Date April 6th
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Mount Pleasant:
What Happened When I Traded a Silicon Valley Board Room For an Inner City Classroom
Steve Poizner
Entrepreneur Steve Poizner has run a billion dollar company, but the
greatest challenge of his life was the year he spent teaching twelfth graders at San Jose's Mt. Pleasant High School. On many days, like the one when a student's boyfriend was arrested for bank robbery, his managerial and
entrepreneurial skills seemed irrelevant. But on others, they helped him
demonstrate how exciting it is to learn. $25.95
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Keeping the Feast:
One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the
triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in
Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers
of food, family and friendship. This is an unsentimental first person
account of living with severe depression, and Butturini finds real ground
for hope despite the disease's potential for genuine tragedy. $25.95
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