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January
24, 2009
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No
Limit: The Will to Succeed
by Michael Phelps with Alan Abrahamson
At
just 23 years old, world record-holding swimmer Michael Phelps has
become a worldwide sports and pop culture phenomenon, thanks to his
unmatched eight gold medal wins in the 2008 Olympics. With help from
award winning sports journalist Alan Abrahamson, Phelps chronicles
his life, from his Baltimore childhood to success in Beijing. In
this autobiography, Phelps provides sports fans with the openness
and charm they're hoping for. |
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Shadow
Country
by Peter Matthiessen
Shadow
Country is the 2008 National Book Award winner in the Fiction
category. Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida
frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, this novel reinvents
the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious
outlaw E. J. Watson. Edgar J. Watson is brought to life through
splendid eyewitness accounts and journal entries from friends,
family and enemies alike.
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The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Naomi
Klein retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time,
Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to
the popular idea of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein
shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in
order to implement its economic policies in many parts of the world
from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and
Iraq.
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