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Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, wi... -
Lords of Finance_ The Bankers W - Liaquat Ahamed
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose pe... -
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... -
Flirtation - Samantha Hunter
EDITORIAL REVIEW: EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it's an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He's flirting...