Topic: Charles Lindbergh
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Bestselling books the week of 1/31/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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10 tell-alls by children with famous parents
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Chapter & Verse FDR vs. Lindbergh: Lynne Olson discusses America's debate over WWII
'Those Angry Days' examines the battle over whether America should enter the international conflict.
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Energy Voices Solar Impulse departs for first sun-powered flight across US
Solar Impulse embarked on the first transcontinental flight of its kind Friday. The Solar Impulse is a dramatic endorsement of clean-energy technology, but probably doesn't represent the future of aviation.
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Chapter & Verse 'The Aviator's Wife' author Melanie Benjamin is drawn to 'locked doors and hidden closets'
Melanie Benjamin, author of a new novel about Charles Lindbergh's wife Anne, discusses her interest in women who have 'kind of fallen off the public's collective consciousness.'
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Bestselling books the week of 1/31/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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General Norman Schwarzkopf, Desert Storm commander, dies at age 78
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who had an illustrious military career which included many high-profile commands, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia.
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Difference Maker Entrepreneur Joe Edwards helps make St. Louis vibrant again
By restoring buildings and activity to a historic St. Louis neighborhood Joe Edwards has become a powerful force for civic good.
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The Monitor's View: Neil Armstrong: A giant leap for modesty
The humility of Neil Armstrong after his moonwalk is a model for a balanced approach to giving credit for great achievements.
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Amelia Earhart: Pilot and feminist (+video)
Amelia Earhart broke aviation records and gained the respect of male pilots. But Amelia Earhart also held modern views about gender roles, and demanded equal status in her marriage.
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Maurice Sendak with the Wild Things, now (+video)
The beloved children's book author passed away at 83 after suffering a stroke.
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The power of silence
A Christian Science perspective.
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10 tell-alls by children with famous parents
Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis has recently published Whateverland: Learning to Live Here, a non-too-flattering book detailing her life with the domestic queen. Stewart is just the latest in a long line of children to publish memoirs about their lives with famous parents – some complimentary, others less so. The veracity of several have been called into question by family members or other doubters.
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After the space shuttle, astronaut corps awaits a new mission
NASA's once-iconic astronaut corps will shrink but still play a vital role as the space shuttle era comes to an end.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, named TIME Person of the Year 2010
Mark Zuckerberg, who's been portrayed in a Hollywood movie this year and has seen his social media empire grow ever larger, has been named TIME magazine's 'Person of the Year' for 2010. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004.
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Twilight at the World of Tomorrow
A stranger-than-fiction true story about the 1939 World’s Fair and one of the remarkable characters behind it.
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The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood’s dark, sharp, dystopic novel picks up where ‘Oryx and Crake’ left off.
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Internet millionaire takes aim at Mars
PayPal cofounder Elon Musk’s latest enterprise just launched the first privately built liquid-fueled rocket into orbit around the Earth.
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