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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. The world isn't going to be flat...(more)

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man'...

By Greg Mortenson
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones a...

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of...

By Ishmael Beah
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you ...

The Girls from Ames: A Stor...

By Jeffrey Zaslow
From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture comes a moving tribute to female f...

GOOD IN BED.

By Jennifer. Weiner