Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by Doug Stanton
Published 2009 by Scribner Book Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416580515

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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "In Harm's Way" comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory.... More...

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
by Myron Uhlberg
Published 2009 by Bantam

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780553806885

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By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.... More...

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
by William D Cohan
Published 2009 by Doubleday Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385528269

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In this superb and shocking narrative, Cohan chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Cohan's minute-by-minute account of 10 days in March 2008, tells a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.... More...

Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
Published 2009 by Knopf Publishing Group

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781400043941

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From the acclaimed author of "A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates "comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912-1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America.... More...