iMarcoPolo’s Top Reading
List-Continuing Education
iMarcoPolo = “Knowing”
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Haiti: The Aftershocks
of History
Haiti: The Aftershocks
of History
by Laurent Dubois
Duke University
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A Universe from Nothing:
Why There Is Something
Rather than Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss
and Richard Dawkins
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Unlocking the Secrets
of the Fed
by David M. Jones
by Laurent Dubois
Duke University
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A Universe from Nothing:
Why There Is Something
Rather than Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss
and Richard Dawkins
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Fed
by David M. Jones
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The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor
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Man Seeks God:
My Flirtations with
the Divine
by Eric Weiner
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Damming the Flood:
Haiti and the Politics
of Containment
(New Updated Edition)
by Peter Hallward
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Republic, Lost: How Money
Corrupts Congress–and a
Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman;
Recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Economic
Sciences
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Back from the Brink
by Alistair Darling
Former UK Labour
Chancellor
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Confessions of a City Girl
Centered around London &
New York Futures Markets
A Novel by Suzana S.
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The Great Crash Ahead:
Strategies for a World
Turned Upside Down
by Harry S. Dent
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Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?:
The Essential Writings of the
Professor Glenn Beck Loves
to Hate
by Frances Fox Piven
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Top Screwups Doctors Make
and How to Avoid Them
by Joe Graedon
and Teresa Graedon
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Extra Virginity:
The Sublime and
Scandalous World
of Olive Oil
by Tom Mueller
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A World on Fire:
Britain’s Crucial Role
in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman
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Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere
by André Aciman
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Stealth of Nations:
The Global Rise
of the Informal
(Untaxed) Economy
by Robert Neuwirth
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Love and Capital:
Karl and Jenny Marx
and the Birth
of a Revolution
by Mary Gabriel
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Capitol Punishment:
The Hard Truth About
Washington Corruption
From America’s Most
Notorious Lobbyist
by Jack Abramoff
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We Meant Well:
the Battle for the Hearts
and Minds of the Iraqi People
(American Empire Project)
by Peter Van Buren
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Ethan Allen:
His Life and Times
by Willard Sterne
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All the Devils Are Here:
The Hidden History of
the Financial Crisis
by Bethany McLean
and Joe Nocera
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Pearl Harbor Christmas:
A World at War,
December 1941
by Stanley Weintraub
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Constitution 3.0:
Freedom and
Technological Change
by Jeffrey Rosen
and Benjamin Wittes
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Dangerous Instincts:
How Gut Feelings
Betray Us
by Ph.D, Mary Ellen O’Toole
and Alisa Bowman
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Greenback Planet:
How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened
Civilization as We Know It
(Discovering America)
by H. W. Brands
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Descent into Chaos:
The U.S. and the
Disaster in Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and
Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
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Don’t Shoot: One Man,
A Street Fellowship,
and the End of Violence
in Inner-City America
by David M. Kennedy
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A Governor’s Story:
The Fight for Jobs
and America’s Economic
Future
by Jennifer Granholm
and Dan Mulhern
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“11-22-63″
A Novel by
Stephen King
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Back to Work:
Why We Need
Smart Government
for a Strong Economy
by Bill Clinton
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The Time of Our Lives:
A conversation about America;
Who we are, where we’ve been,
and where we need to go now,
to recapture the American dream
by Tom Brokaw
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In the Graveyard of Empires:
America’s War in Afghanistan
by Seth G. Jones
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Instant City:
Life and Death
in Karachi
by Steve Inskeep
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Truth and Consequences:
Life Inside the Madoff Family
by Laurie Sandell
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Breaking the Sound Barrier
by Amy Goodman
and Bill Moyers
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Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges
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Where China Meets India:
Burma and the New
Crossroads of Asia
by Thant Myint-U
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War of the Worldviews:
Science vs Spirituality
by Deepak Chopra,
Leonard Mlodinow
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Lifeblood: How to Change
the World One Dead
Mosquito at a Time
by Alex Perry
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The Price of Civilization:
Reawakening American
Virtue and Prosperity
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Great by Choice:
Uncertainty, Chaos,
and Luck—Why Some
Thrive Despite Them All
by Jim Collins
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The Third Industrial Revolution:
How Lateral Power Is Transforming
Energy, the Economy, and the World
by Jeremy Rifkin
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Arab Spring,
Chinese Winter
James Fallows
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Credit Card Nation:
The Consequences
of America’s Addiction
to Credit
Dr. Robert Manning
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Confidence Men:
Wall Street,
Washington,
and the Education
of a President
Ron Suskind
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The Quest: Energy,
Security, and the
Remaking of the
Modern World
Daniel Yergin
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A First-Rate Madness:
Uncovering the Links
Between Leadership
and Mental Illness
by Nassir Ghaemi
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The Black Banners:
The Inside Story of 9/11
and the War Against
al-Qaeda
by Ali H. Soufan
& Daniel Freedman
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Pinched: How the Great
Recession Has Narrowed
Our Futures and What
We Can Do About It
by Don Peck
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Nickel and Dimed:
On (Not) Getting
By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Three Famines:
Starvation and Politics
by Thomas Keneally
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The Euro: The Battle
for the New Global
Currency
Mr. David Marsh
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That Used to Be Us:
How America Fell Behind
in the World It Invented
and How We Can Come Back
by Thomas L. Friedman
and Michael Mandelbaum
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What Makes a Terrorist:
Economics and the
Roots of Terrorism
by Alan B. Krueger
(Princeton)
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Idea Man
Paul Allen
Microsoft
Co-Founder
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Saving Capitalism From
Short-Termism: How to
Build Long-Term Value
and Take Back Our
Financial Future
by Alfred Rappaport
and John C. Bogle
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The Rights of the People:
How Our Search for Safety
Invades Our Liberties
by David K. Shipler
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Collision Course:
Ronald Reagan,
the Air Traffic Controllers,
and the Strike that
Changed America
by Joseph Anthony McCartin
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Your Drug May Be
Your Problem,
How and Why to Stop
Taking Psychiatric
Medications
by M.D. Peter Breggin
and David Cohen
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Civilization:
The West
and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson
(Harvard Professor)
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Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field:
Gravity & Electro-Magnetism
Redefined
John Brandenburg Ph.D.
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Onward: How Starbucks
fought for its life without
losing its soul
Howard Schultz
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Endgame: The End
of the Debt Supercycle
and How It Changes
Everything
by John Mauldin
and Jonathan Tepper
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“Galore”
by Michael Crummey
Novel set in Newfoundland
and Labrador, Canada
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Lords of Finance:
The Bankers Who
Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed
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All the Justice Money
Can Buy: Corporate
Greed on Trial
by Snigdha Prakash
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The Influencing Machine:
Brooke Gladstone on the Media
by Brooke Gladstone
and Josh Neufeld
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This Time Is Different:
Eight Centuries of
Financial Folly
by Carmen M. Reinhart
and Kenneth Rogoff
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The Orion Mystery: Unlocking
the Secrets of the Pyramids
by Robert Bauval and
Adrian Gilbert
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Brain Bugs: How the
Brain’s Flaws Shape
Our Lives
by Dean Buonomano
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The Watchers:
The Rise of America’s
Surveillance State
by Shane Harris
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Power: Portraits of
World Leaders
BY David Remnick
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Tiger Trap: America’s
Secret Spy War with
China
by David Wise
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The Social Animal
by David Brooks.
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Warren Buffett Invests
Like a Girl: And Why
You Should, Too
by The Motley Fool
and Louann Lofton
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The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual
Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle
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Haiti after the Earthquake
Dr. John Farmer
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Aftershock: The Next
Economy and America’s
Future by Robert B. Reich
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Money and Power:
How Goldman Sachs
Came to Rule the World
by William D. Cohan
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters:
The Battle for the Soul of
American Business
by Robert A. Lutz
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Genius of Place:
The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
Landscape architect for NY’s
Central Park and 100′s of major
national and local parks.
by Justin Martin
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What the Hell Is Going on
with the Greek Financial Crisis
by Stephen Dove
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Greece’s ‘Odious’ Debt:
The Looting of the Hellenic
Republic by the Euro,
the Political Elite and
the Investment Community
by Jason Manolopoulos
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The Deal from Hell:
How Moguls and Wall Street
Plundered Great American
Newspapers The End
of Wall Street
by Roger Lowenstein
by James O’Shea
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The End of Wall Street
by Roger Lowenstein
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War at the Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Struggle to Control
an American Business Empire
by Sarah Ellison
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Too Big to Fail:
The Inside Story
of How Wall Street
and Washington Fought
to Save the FinancialSystem–
and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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13 Bankers: The Wall Street
Takeover and the Next
Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson
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The Forgotten Man:
A New History of the
Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
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The Inner Circle
by Brad Meltzer – Fiction
About the US Presidents’ Culper
Secret Spy Network Established
Originally by President George
Washington and named for the
town of Culpepper, Virginia
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Reckless Endangerment:
How Outsized Ambition & Greed,
Led to Economic Armageddon
Gretchen Morgenson (Author)
& Joshua Rosner (Author)
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Forbes Best Business Mistakes:
How Today’s Top Business
Leaders Turned Missteps
into Success
by Bob Sellers
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“Money and Power:
How Goldman Sachs
Came to Rule the World”
William D. Cohan’s
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In the Garden of BeastsI
by Erik Larson.
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The Greater Journey
by David McCullough
Henry Kissinger’s’ “On China”
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“Among the Truthers:
A Journey Through America’s
Growing Conspiracist Underground” -
by Jonathan Kay-Managing Editor
of Canada’s National Post newspaper
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“The Filter Bubble:
What the Internet is
Hiding From You.”
by Eli Pariser’s
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“Age of Greed:
The Triumph of Finance
and the Decline of America,
1970 to the Present”-
Jeff Madrick (Author)
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The Miracle of Freedom
by Chris Stewart
and Ted Stewart
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The Big Short: Inside
the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
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Clash of the Titans
Greed, Hubris, the
Fall of Merrill Lynch,
and the Near-Collapse
of Bank of America
by Greg Farrell
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House of Cards:
A Tale of Hubris and
Wretched Excess on
Wall Street
by William D. Cohan
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“The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People”
by Stephen R. Covey
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The Way We’re Working
Isn’t Working: The Four
Forgotten Needs That
Energize Great
Performance
By Tony Schwartz
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The Great Reset:
How the Post-Crash
Economy Will Change
the Way We Live
and Work
by Richard Florida
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The Referral Engine:
Teaching Your Business
to Market Itself
by John Jantsch
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Program or Be Programmed:
Ten Commands for a Digital Age
by Douglas Rushkoff
and Leland Purvis
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Radical-in-Chief:
Barack Obama
and the Untold
Story of American
Socialism
by Stanley Kurtz
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Dead Aid: Why Aid
Is Not Working and
How There Is a Better
Way for Africa
by Dambisa Moyo
and Niall Ferguson
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Shelter: Where Harvard
Meets the Homeless
by Scott Seider
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Fallout: The True Story
of the CIA’s Secret
War on Nuclear
Trafficking
by Catherine Collins
and Douglas Frantz
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The End of Food:
How the Food Industry
is Destroying Our Food
Supply–And What We
Can Do About It
by Thomas Pawlick
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China, Inc.: How the
Rise of the Next
Superpower Challenges
America and the World
by Ted C. Fishman
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Kremlin Rising:
Vladimir Putin’s
Russia and the
End of Revolution
by Peter Baker
and Susan Glasser
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Outrageous Fortunes:
The Twelve Surprising
Trends That Will Reshape
the Global Economy
by Daniel Altman
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Iron River:
A Charlie Hood Novel
Mexican drug cartels and
US law enforcement struggle
along the Rio Grande
by T. Jefferson Parker
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The Border Lords
(Charlie Hood)
by T. Jefferson Parker
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Noble Windmills
Secret gov’t investigation
into corporate conspiracy
(a novel)
by Mitch Engel
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National Geographic
Simply Beautiful Photographs
by Annie Griffiths Belt
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The Happiness Project:
Or, Why I Spent a Year
Trying to Sing in the
Morning, Clean My Closets,
Fight Right, Read Aristotle,
and Generally Have More Fun
by Gretchen Rubin
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The Grace of Silence:
A Memoir
by Michele Norris
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The Tiger: A True Story
of Vengeance and Survival
in the Siberian wilds
by John Vaillant
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Havana Harvest
A novel based in part
by real life experience
by the author in Cuba
by Robert Landori
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The Imperfectionist
The dark side of ex-pat
journalism-A novel by
Tom Rachman
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The Complete Architecture
of Adler & Sullivan
by Richard Nickel,
Aaron Siskind,
John Vinci and
Ward Miller
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The Geography of Bliss:
One Grump’s Search for
the Happiest Places
in the World
by Eric Weiner
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Navigating the Dark
Side of Wealth: A Life
Guide for Inheritors
by Thayer Cheatham Willis
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The Next Front:
Southeast Asia
and the Road to
Global Peace
with Islam
by Christopher S. Bond
and Lewis M. Simons
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Wonders in the Sky:
Unexplained Aerial
Objects from Antiquity
to Modern Times
by Jacques Vallee
and Chris Aubeck
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The Death of Money:
How the Electronic
Economy Has
Destablized the
World’s Markets
and Created
Financial Chaos
by Joel Kurtzman
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Stalling for Time:
My Life as an FBI
Hostage Negotiator
by Gary Noesner
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The Power Of Being Different
a success formula
by John Paul Carinci
