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Into the Wild
Rating: 1758 customer reviews
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson…
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Angela's Ashes
Rating: 2035 customer reviews
Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, movingly read in his own voice, bears all the marks of a classic. Born in Depression-era Brooklyn to Irish immigrant…
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Rating: 826 customer reviews
Recently, The New Yorker published chef Anthony Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's appetite in this tell-all about what…
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Rating: 775 customer reviews
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw…
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
Rating: 785 customer reviews
After his hilarious chronicle about reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z (actually a-ak to zyweic), our fearless author, A. J. Jacobs, tackles a new…
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When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Rating: 877 customer reviews
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him all over…
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Rating: 1126 customer reviews
Dave Eggers scored a worldwide phenomenon with this memoir that topped national best-seller lists and has since become a staple for summer reading and book clubs. A…
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Night
Rating: 3575 customer reviews
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in…
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Living History
Rating: 1674 customer reviews
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her…
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
Rating: 1590 customer reviews
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication. With nearly a million copies in print,…
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John Adams
Rating: 1171 customer reviews
In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely…
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A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive
Rating: 4199 customer reviews
Dave Pelzer's astonishing, disturbing account of his early years describes one of the most severe child-abuse cases in California history. This book spent over 175…
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'Tis
Rating: 1484 customer reviews
The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes comes of age in 'Tis. Listen as Frank tells in…
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Rating: 2185 customer reviews
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." Here is Stephen King's master class on his craft. On Writing begins with a…
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A Million Little Pieces
Rating: 3252 customer reviews
By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the…
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Rating: 1392 customer reviews
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead…
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Same Kind of Different As Me
Rating: 1332 customer reviews
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery... An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel... A gutsy woman…
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
Rating: 2528 customer reviews
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram…
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Rating: 1428 customer reviews
In My Horizontal Life, actress and stand-up comedian Chelsea Handler boldly recounted her one-night stands - the good, the bad, and the disastrous. In this wickedly…
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My Friend Leonard
Rating: 984 customer reviews
Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship…
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Rating: 5645 customer reviews
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the…
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Committed: a Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
Rating: 1001 customer reviews
At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in…
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Going Rogue: An American Life
Rating: 3029 customer reviews
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. As chief…
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The Glass Castle
Rating: 3027 customer reviews
This extraordinary memoir from Jeannette Walls is a stirring and distinctive story that has won tremendous critical acclaim. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly…
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Rating: 1047 customer reviews
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a…
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Audition: a Memoir
Rating: 922 customer reviews
"Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: 'I want to be you.' My stock reply is always: 'Then you have to take the whole package.'"And now, at…
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Rating: 818 customer reviews
Frederick Douglass was born a slave, and it seemed likely that he would live and die a slave since he was uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his…
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Rating: 785 customer reviews
The best-selling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting…
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Confessions of a Video Vixen
Rating: 813 customer reviews
Confessions of a Video Vixen is the widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once-sought-after sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of multi-platinum…
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Rating: 853 customer reviews
You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's…
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