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Julian Assange - Wikileaks_ War - Valerie Guichaoua; Sophie Rader
JULIAN ASSANGE: THE FIRST TRUE HERO OF THE INTERNET AGE This unauthorized full-length biography is pro-Assange overall. It is a sympathetic portrait of a flawed-hero figure fearles... -
J. D. Salinger_ A Life - Kenneth Slawenski
Amazon.com ReviewSalinger: A Life avoids such scandalmongering in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of Salinger the writer. Slawenski looks not only at ... -
Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.On a backward world with six moons, an alert... -
Instant City - Steve Inskeep
From the host of NPR's Morning Edition, a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all ar... -
Goddess of Vengeance - Jackie Collins
ReviewPraise for GODDESS OF VENGEANCE: "No one paints a more tawdry -- and delicious -- portrait of Hollywood than prolific novelist Jac... -
Germline - T. C. Mccarthy
Review"Compelling debut" and "a portrait of the effects of battlefield stress that is difficult to bear but impossible to put down" - Publishers Weekly "Gritty and fur... -
Franklin and Winston - Jon Meacham
The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leadersFranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leader... -
Eva Braun_ Life With Hitler - Heike B. Gortemaker; Damion Sea
The first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun: an authoritative reassessment of her role in Hitler’s life, which gives us, as well, an astonishingly revealing portrait of Hitler a... -
Distraction - Bruce Sterling
The Barnes & Noble Review Society Comes Tumbling Down Bruce Sterling's latest, longest, most rigorously imagined portrait of 21st-century American life, Distraction, is now availab... -
Death Mask - Graham Masterton
SUMMARY: A knife-wielding maniac is terrorizing the city. But he isn't flesh and blood; he's paint and paper, a portrait come to life.