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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2012 20:24:17 GMT</pubDate>

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			<title>Rigged</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Mezrich, Ben </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange.  
  
After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylum-like oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every week, the Merc is like a casino on crack, where former garbagemen become millionaires overnight and where fistfights break out on the trading floor.   
  
The ordinary kid has traded Brooklyn for the goldlined hotel palaces of Dubai. He keeps company on the decks of private yachts in Monte Carlo -- teeming with half-naked girls flown in by Saudi sheiks -- and makes deals in the dangerous back alleys of Beijing.   
  
But the Merc is just a starting place. Taken under the wing of another young gun and partnering with a mysterious young Muslim, the kid embarks on a dangerous adventure to revolutionize the oil trading industry -- and along with it, the world.   
  
Rigged is the explicit, exclusive, true story behind the headlines that dominate the world stage.   
  
Ben Mezrich has published nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House (set to be a Sony picture in March 2008 starring Kevin Spacey). He is a columnist for Stuff Magazine Boston Common, and a contributor for Flush magazine (U.K.). He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. www.benmezrich.com]]></description>
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			<title>Secret Life of Houdini, The</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Kalush, William Sloman, Larry </author>
						<category><![CDATA[Autobiography / Biography / Memoir]]></category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini has continued to captivate generations. Now, renowned magic expert William Kalush and best-selling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth, from the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats to his secret life as a spy, and the pernicious plot to subvert his legacy.  
  
As exciting as any good thriller, The Secret Life of Houdini traces the arc of the master magician's life from desperate poverty to worldwide legend, and initiates the listener into the arcane world of professional magic.  
  
William Kalush has been a dedicated student of the art of magic for more than 25 years. Founder of the Conjuring Arts Research Center and publisher of Gibeciere, an esteemed magic history journal, he has helped create several world-famous magic stunts and prime time network television specials.  
  
Larry Sloman is an award-winning author best known for his collaborations with radio personality Howard Stern on Private Parts and Miss America. He became interested in magic history after working with David Blaine on his best-selling memoir Mysterious Stranger.  
  
Adam Grupper's film credits include Music and Lyrics, Night at the Museum, Two Weeks Notice, and It Runs in the Family. On television: The Sopranos, Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. His Broadway credits include Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme, Guys and Dolls, The Secret Garden, City of Angels and Into the Woods.]]></description>
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			<title>True Stories of Survival</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Authors, Multiple </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rescue offers stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, and remote Arctic wilderness. But mostly, Rescue is about what humans can endure and achieve in the face of overwhelming duress. Read by Terence Aselford, Colleen Delany, David Elias, Graeme Malcolm, and Nick Sampson. Contributions by: Pete Sinclair, Ralph Barker, Jack Olsen, Thomas James, Kenneth Grahame, Alan Kesselheim, Dorcas S. Miller, Geoffrey Childs, Sr. Wilfred Grenfell.  
  
Most people associate storms and other big weather with death -- with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.  
  
Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that treacherous weather -- or when it finds them -- and we are reminded of the fragility of life, the capriciousness of Nature's will, and how little we can do when both cross paths. Read by Terence Aselford, Rick Foucheux, Nick Sampson, and Gary Telles. Contributions by Sebastian Junger, Michael Groom, Gordon Chaplin, Jack London, John Muir, Jack LeMoyne, Rick Bass, John Vaillant, Whitney Balliett, Richard E. Byrd.  
  
Clint Willis has been a climber and an armchair mountaineer since he was ten years old. His writing about technology, finance and the outdoors has appeared in more than 100 publications.  
  
Dorcas S. Miller is an outdoor writer who has worked as an Outward Bound instructor, whitewater rafting guide, canoe trip leader, teacher, and environmental advocate.]]></description>
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			<title>Year of Magical Thinking, The</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Didion, Joan </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage -- and a life, in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.  
  
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later -- the night before New Year's Eve -- the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.  
  
This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness...about marriage and children and memory...about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]></description>
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