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Cut: The true story of an abandoned, ...

Cathy Glass

In her latest paperback, the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the ...

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Published: Mar 2009

Pre: The Story of America's Greatest ...

Tom Jordan

The story of America's greatest running legend.For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. ...

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Published: Mar 1997

The World I Live In

Helen Keller

Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work—one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted ...

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Published: Dec 2003

The New Confessions of an Economic Hi...

John Perkins

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.New Revelations: Featu...

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Published: Feb 2016

Somebody to Love: The Life, Death, an...

Matt Richards

For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Some...

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Published: May 2018

Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Linda Ronstadt

In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and '70s.Tracing the timeline of her remar...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and t...

Sandy Tolan

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his sur...

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Published: Apr 2007

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls’s memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, ...

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Published: Jan 2006

On Writing

Stephen King

In this combination memoir and writing guide, best-selling author King tells of how he came to be a writer and, in the process, explores many aspects of writing, from plot and character construction through some of the nuts and bolts ...

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Published: Jul 2002

No Disrespect

Sister Souljah

Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manu...

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Published: Jan 1996

Who Was Johnny Appleseed? (Who Was......

Joan Holub

The perfect biography to 'bite into' at the start of a new school year! Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and legendary Johnny Appleseed, a man who is best known for bringing apple trees to the midwest. Over John Cha...

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Published: Sep 2005

On Gold Mountain

Lisa See

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneuria...

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Published: Feb 2012

Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Editi...

John Howard Griffin

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

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Published: Oct 2010

Mrs. Kennedy and Me

Clint Hill

An enthralling, tragic, and intensely private portrayal of the captivating first lady from a man who knew her like no one elseWhen Secret Service agent Clint Hill was initially assigned to guard First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, ...

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Published: Nov 2012

Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Be...

Valerie Plame Wilson

On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, 'What I Didn't Find in Africa,' appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Nova...

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Published: Jun 2008

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on ...

Bill Bryson

Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are Bryson's hallmarks, I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF recounts his sometimes-disconcerting reunion with his homeland....[It] chronicles the quirkiest aspects of life in America, right down to o...

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Published: Jun 2000

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl...

Anne Frank

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942,...

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Published: Jun 1993

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Alison Weir

"WEIR'S BOOK OUTSHINES ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES OF HENRY. Beautifully written, exhaustive in its research, it is a gem. . . . She succeeds masterfully in making Henry and his six wives . . . come alive for the reader."–Philade...

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Published: Oct 2002

Traci Lords: Underneath It All

Traci Elizabeth Lords

The moving, gripping, and tell–all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star. At 14, Nora Kuzma ran away from home and ended up on the dirty streets of Hollyw...

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Published: Jul 2004

Victoria's Daughters

Jerrold M. Packard

Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's peop...

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Published: Dec 1999

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection ...

Deborah Feldman

Now a Netflix original series Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infideland Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the aut...

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Published: Oct 2012

Here We Go Again: My Life In Televisi...

Betty White

The beloved actress currently enjoying a huge wave of popularity brings her account of her life and career up-to-date with new material and photos.

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Published: Oct 2010

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Sto...

Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.  Richard L...

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Published: May 2012

Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma

Jeremy Bernstein

A study of the great nuclear physicist is an intensely interesting biographical profile, both personal and historical, Oppenheimer brings the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. an extraord...

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Published: Sep 2005

When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the...

Joni Foster

In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The s...

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Published: Feb 2017

Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The Tru...

Mark Mathabane

The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South AfricaMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his r...

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Published: Oct 1998

Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald J. Trump

From the Impresario of NBC's hit show The ApprenticeTRUMP ON TRUMP: "I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big."And here's how he does it: ...

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Published: Dec 2004

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

The author of Asa, as I Knew Him offers a compelling and poignant memoir of her two years as a teenager in a psychiatric hospital, sharing vivid portraits of her fellow patients, their keepers, and her experiences during treatment. Re...

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Published: Jan 1994

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their...

Carolyn Spiro

A dual memoir tells the alternating stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces their childhoods, the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the othe...

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Published: Aug 2006

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary ...

Joseph J. Ellis

In lesser hands the fractious disputes and hysterical rhetoric of these contentious nation-builders might come across as hyperbolic pettiness. Ellis knows better, and he unpacks the real issues for his readers, revealing the driving a...

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Published: Jan 2000
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