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America's Boy

Wade Rouse

Growing up in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, Wade Rouse was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade ...

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Published: Mar 2007

January First: A Child's Descent Into...

Michael Schofield

At age six, January ("Jani") Schofield was diagnosed with one of the most severe cases of child-onset schizophrenia on record. Hallucinating constantly, she is at the mercy of her imaginary friends—some of whom are friend...

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Published: Aug 2013

Sybil

Flora Rheta Schreiber

More amazing than any work of fiction, yet true in every word, it swept to the top of the bestseller lists and riveted the consciousness of the world. As an Emmy Award-winning film starring Sally Field, it captured the home screens of...

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Published: Apr 2009

Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher i...

Robert Specht

Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild minin...

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Published: Jul 1984

Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.Agassi's incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. ...

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Published: Aug 2010

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search o...

Helene Cooper

Helene Cooper is 'Congo,' a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. H...

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Published: Jul 2009

Service Included: Four-Star Secrets o...

Phoebe Damrosch

Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book. While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported he...

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Published: Oct 2008

Sarah's Seasons: An Amish Diary and C...

Martha Moore Davis

"Sarah's Seasons gives us insight into the life of an Old Order Amish woman—something rare and hard to come by. It also records the growing friendship between Martha Davis and Sarah Fisher and the juxtaposition of the author's...

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Published: Jul 2000

Wait for Me!: Memoirs

Duchess Deborah Mitford

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling t...

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Published: Sep 2011

My Life With Sylvia Browne

Chris DuFresne

Chris Dufresne tells of growing up in an uncommon household with a psychic for a mom, with spirit guides, psychic readings and more.

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Published: Jan 2000

Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secre...

Melissa Febos

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon....

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Published: Jul 2011

Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lesso...

Daniel Gottlieb

When his grandson was born, Daniel Gottlieb began to write a series of heartfelt letters that he hoped Sam would read later in life. He planned to cover all the important topics—dealing with your parents, handling bullies, falli...

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Published: Mar 2008

Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse

Echo Heron

This is a nurse's story unlike any other, because Echo Heron is a very special nurse. Dedicated to healing and helping in the harshest environments, she spent ten years in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Her story is unique,...

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Published: May 1988

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivo...

Deborah Layton

Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor, Seductive Poison is the 'truly unforgettable' (Kirkus Review) story of how one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and ...

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Published: Nov 1999

Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generati...

Philip Norman

UPDATED TO INCLUDE PAUL McCARTNEY'S KNIGHTING AND THE DEATHS OF JOHN LENNON AND GEORGE HARRISONPhilip Norman's biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band -- a beautifully written account of th...

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Published: Feb 2005

Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, an...

Laurie Perry

If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Cr...

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Published: Oct 2007

My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably...

Kevin Smith

NOW UPDATED WITH THE 'INS AND OUTS' OF MAKING ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, AND A NEW AFTERWORD! Anything but boring, Kevin Smith shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way!Ke...

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Published: Oct 2009

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here ...

Art Spiegelman

MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his ...

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Published: Sep 1992

The Time of My Life

Patrick Swayze

An entertaining and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood life and a remarkable love, told in the words of beloved actor Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, shortly before he passed away. In a career spanning more than ...

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Published: Aug 2010

Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in ...

Michael Tonello

Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, and an Hermes scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about ...

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Published: Aug 2009

Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography ...

Rebecca Walker

Hailed as 'compelling' by The Washington Post and 'stunningly honest' by The San Francisco Chronicle, this memoir has hit bestseller lists and earned critical praise from coast to coast. Rebecca Walker was born in 1969 to author Alice...

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Published: Jan 2002

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Wh...

Nancy Goldstone

Four Queens is a rich pageant of glamour, intrigue, and feminine power at a time when women were thought to have played limited roles. In thirteenth-century Europe, four sisters from a single family-Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and B...

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Published: Mar 2008

LOBSTER CHRONICLES, THE: LIFE ON A VE...

Linda Greenlaw

fter 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw decided it was time to take a break from being a swordboat captain, the career that would earn her a prominent role in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and a portrayal in the subsequent film. G...

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Published: Jun 2003

The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr...

Linda Himelstein

Vodka pioneer Pyotr Smirnov is one the most fascinating salesmen and entrepeneurs the world has ever known, and his life as recreated by Linda Himelstein, set against the Russia of Tolstoy and tsars, is a stirring chronicle of ambitio...

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Published: Dec 2010

Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniver...

Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday's rough-and-tumble Balti...

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Published: Jun 2006

Rage To Survive: The Etta James Story...

Etta James

Here is the story of perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era--Etta James. One of the great women of American music, equally at home singing blues and jazz, Etta regales us with tales of her chaotic childhood, the stars she ha...

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Published: Jun 2003

Wild Men, Wild Alaska: Finding What L...

Rocky McElveen

In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan ...

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Published: Sep 2007

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Bich Minh Nguyen

As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmu...

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Published: Feb 2008

Sword and Blossom: A British Officer'...

Peter Pagnamenta

In 1904, when thirty-four-year-old British Army captain Arthur Hart-Synnot was sent to Japan to learn the language of his country's new ally, romance was the furthest thing from his mind. At least five generations of the Hart family h...

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Published: May 2007

High On Arrival: A Memoir

MacKenzie Phillips

"A raw glimpse" (Entertainment Weekly) into her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions—and reveals the shattering truth behind her complex, secretive, and damaging history with her father, the legen...

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Published: Feb 2011
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