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 Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the PastBest Price: $1.95 "Motherland," Fern Schumer Chapman's extraordinary memoir of her mother's pre... |  The IslamistEd Husain has written a highly informative, personal account of his experiences as a young man... |  Me Unabridged CDsBest Price: $2.86 As many of you saw on his very honest & sincere interview yesterday on Oprah, Ricky... |  Dog in My Footsteps: More Stories of a Vet's WifeChrystal Sharp's life with her husband, her son, and all the various animals in her life in... |  Do You Hear What I Hear?: An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious CallingBest Price: $1.49 How does a young, secular intellectual understand her sixtyish university-professor father?s... |
 Truth about Me: A Hijra Life StoryBest Price: $6.42 We got stared at a lot. People asked out loudly some out of curiosity, others out of malice... |  Mary Chesnut's Diary (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.52 An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. One of the... |  A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great DepressionBest Price: $8.49 "A wonderful reminder that economic hardship can bring suffering but can also foster... |  I Love a Broad Margin to My LifeBest Price: $0.47 Hong Kingston's book is a brilliantly penned memoir written in a fluid, narrative poetry... |  Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond (Vintage)Best Price: $6.82 I give this book a 4 star because I felt I gained something by reading it. Though I am an... |
 There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to SayBest Price: $7.00 I am a huge fan of Paula Poundstone's brilliantly funny observations about life. She looks... |  You Better Watch OutBest Price: $5.72 Finding the book a bit boring.....but haven't finished reading it. It came promptly and... |  A Sense of Belonging: From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American DreamBest Price: $0.28 As an American born in NY in the 40's of Cuban parents who took us early in the 50's to... |  Ten Minutes from Home: A MemoirBest Price: $4.39 Ten Minutes From Home by Beth Greenfield has been one of those memoirs I have not been able to... |  Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live LargeBest Price: $6.50 Hips Hips Hooray for Kim Brittingham's new book, "Read My Hips." With all of the... |
 Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of AmericaMillions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school,... |  Cooking for Gracie: The Making of a Parent from ScratchBest Price: $0.01 A touching, insightful and uplifting memoir, complete with more than 40 recipes, that recounts a... |  Half EmptyBest Price: $16.99 The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don?t Get Too... | I Love a Broad Margin to My Life Best Price: $0.47 Hong Kingston's book is a brilliantly penned memoir written in a fluid, narrative poetry... | Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond (Vintage) Best Price: $6.82 I give this book a 4 star because I felt I gained something by reading it. Though I am an... |
| There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say Best Price: $7.00 I am a huge fan of Paula Poundstone's brilliantly funny observations about life. She looks... | You Better Watch Out Best Price: $5.72 Finding the book a bit boring.....but haven't finished reading it. It came promptly and... | A Sense of Belonging: From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream Best Price: $0.28 As an American born in NY in the 40's of Cuban parents who took us early in the 50's to... | Ten Minutes from Home: A Memoir Best Price: $4.39 Ten Minutes From Home by Beth Greenfield has been one of those memoirs I have not been able to... | Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large Best Price: $6.50 Hips Hips Hooray for Kim Brittingham's new book, "Read My Hips." With all of the... |
| Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school,... | Cooking for Gracie: The Making of a Parent from Scratch Best Price: $0.01 A touching, insightful and uplifting memoir, complete with more than 40 recipes, that recounts a... | Half Empty Best Price: $16.99 The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don?t Get Too... |  Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the FameBest Price: $4.98 Jerry Rice has routinely been called the all time greatest reciever for the last 20 years. This... |  The Dream: A Memoir (Random House Reader's Circle)Best Price: $6.99 This book came highly recommended, I read it, and was ultimately highly disappointed. So many... |
 Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy GriffinBest Price: $1.36 People either really like Kathy Griffin, or they really don't. I'm in the... |  The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North KoreaBest Price: $12.95 The Japanese edition's title "The Confession" might be more to the point, although... |  Here's the Deal: Don't Touch MeBest Price: $1.97 Let me begin by saying that biographies, memoirs and autobiographies are among my least favorite... |  David Beckham: My SideBest Price: $8.87 I seldom read sports biographies, but nonetheless found this book hard to put down once I... |  Cry Myself to Sleep He Had to Escape theThe next book from the number one bestselling author of Cry Silent Tears. Joe was only five... |
 Taking Le TissBest Price: $4.99 Nicknamed "Le God" by the Southampton faithful, Matt Le Tissier was not cast from the... |  In My Dreams I Dance (My Story)Best Price: $0.24 I met the author Anne Wafula Strike by chance in Algarve Portugal several years ago when she was... |  Life in Prairie LandBest Price: $8.00 'Combining descriptive travel writing, autobiography, and the depth of the extended essay,... |  Anne Frank: REFLECTIONS ON HER LIFE AND LEGACYBest Price: $87.36 In this book the editors have selected thirty-one excerpts from various writings about Anne... |  False Papers: DECEPTION AND SURVIVAL IN THE HOLOCAUSTBest Price: $18.88 I have read many, many books about the Holocaust and found False Papers to be written in an... |
 Urban Tapestry: Indianapolis StoriesBest Price: $12.99 Definitely worth more than the minimal cost of this paperback. A nice collection of stories... |  The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)Best Price: $19.00 Very few of the historical women who disguised themselves as men to become soldiers have told... |  Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE DayBest Price: $20.59 Hartman was a PFC with the 41st Battalion, B Company of the 11th Armored Div and saw action from... |  Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University (Penn State Press)Best Price: $11.67 To put my cards on the table at the first opportunity: I have recently retired from Rutgers, New... |  The Kids Are All Right: A MemoirBest Price: $5.48 I loved this book and read it straight through in one sitting -- 5 straight hours until 3am and... |
 Speech-less: Tales of a White House SurvivorBest Price: $1.16 This is one of the most compelling inside-the-beltway memoirs I've read from two... |  Staying TrueBest Price: $1.48 STAYING TRUE is narrated by the author and provides a fine unabridged production of her... |  Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and MineBest Price: $3.75 Recently, my community experienced the shock, horror and burden of having one of its own, a... |  A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A DiaryBest Price: $5.98 The Diary "A Woman In Berlin 8 weeks In The Conquered City" was written by an... |  Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking DangerouslyBest Price: $1.85 Stupid book. And I don't say that lightly, because in my house, "stupid" is the... |
 Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and MeBest Price: $2.49 With Bernie Madoff convicted and behind bars the deluge of books on him and his crimes can be... |  Downtown: My ManhattanBest Price: $2.07 During Pete Hamill's lifetime, he has lived mostly in Manhattan which is usually the... |  Pretty In Plaid Unabridged CDsBest Price: $3.28 The hardcover debut from the New York Times bestselling author- the prequel to Bitter is the... |  No Man's LandBest Price: $1.59 Unabridged CDs ? 7 CDs, 8 hours The gripping, gritty story of a young woman?s plunge into the... |  Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the GeneBest Price: $0.01 Sometimes it is difficult to fathom that one's fate may be predestined at the moment of... |
 Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early YearsBest Price: $18.95 In this compelling biography, Peter Griffin draws on a wealth of previously unpublished... |  China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War IIBest Price: $10.85 I put off reading this work by E.B. Sledge for a a long time. I had read "With the Old... |  The Parwan Wind - Dust MotesBest Price: $17.75 In response to the complaints of readers that The Gun Tree was too short and didn't tell... |  Memoirs of Giambattista Scala: Consul of his Italian Majesty in lagos in Guinea (1862) (Sources of African History)Best Price: $17.97 This is the first English edition of the Memoirs of Giambattista Scala, who from 1852 to 1859... |  Heroes of America Illustrated Lives: Martin Luther King, Jr. (070097002232, A2237S1195S1495CA)Best Price: $3.30 |
 Walking the DogBest Price: $23.79 An epic debut graphic novel from an acclaimed illustrator?dark, funny, beautiful,... |  Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Genes. Sarah GabrielBest Price: $0.27 'I didn't choose it. Certainly, I didn't choose it. I would have chosen almost... |  The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New WorldBest Price: $4.69 History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Those immortal Marx's words are... |  Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the WayBest Price: $2.69 I must admit, I heard about this on Fresh Air on Public Broadcasting (from 10/14/09). I am... |  A Three Dog LifeBest Price: $0.45 A Three Dog Life derives its title from the Australian aborigines who slept with their dogs for... |
 Naked in the Promised Land: A MemoirBest Price: $17.32 I was trying to remember the name of a wonderful book I read several years ago, and I finally... |  Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.57 I read this some time ago, combined with The Souls of Black Folk and The Autobiography of an... |  The Autobiography of Yukichi FukuzawaBest Price: $26.02 Yukichi Fukuzawa is on the money. Quite literally, actually. He is the face on the Japanese... |  My Life with the Taliban (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $18.94 Abdul Salam Zaeef, orphaned at a young age and made a refugee not much later, writes of this and... |  Nothing to Be Frightened OfBest Price: $5.64 Novelist Julian Barnes thinks a lot about death. And he doesn't like it; he describes... |
 The Center of the Universe: A MemoirBest Price: $1.97 Have I mentioned that I have sworn off memoirs? I know many people love them but I tend to find... |  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International)Best Price: $2.85 After reading Lisa's Best of 2008 List and after speaking to a fellow "Basketball... |  White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American LifeBest Price: $13.89 "White Field, Black Sheep" is a crystalline memoir capturing the experience of a Baby... |  Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in GuantanamoBest Price: $6.98 I consider myself well-read but had no idea of the scale of abuse at Guantanamo until I read... |  Ramon Del Valle (Contemporary American History Series)Best Price: $20.00 |
 Andre BazinBest Price: $26.23 André Bazin's impact on film art is widely considered to be greater than that of many... |  In His Own RightBest Price: $19.88 Robert Kennedy's role in American politics during the 1960s was pivotal yet has defied... |  Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (vol. 1)Best Price: $24.64 Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political... |  Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel SchneersonBest Price: $29.58 The fatal flaw in this dense, virtually impenetrable, book is that there's very little to... |  The Scandal of Susan SontagBest Price: $16.99 Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature?the willingness of great... |
 The Price of LoveBest Price: $20.95 I actually got this book as it is the exact same title as another book which was the one I... |  Myself and Strangers: A Memoir of ApprenticeshipBest Price: $19.95 In Myself and Strangers , John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and... |  Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)Best Price: $0.01 In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth... |  For Better For Worse, For Richer For PoorerBest Price: $11.15 Based on the website, I gave copies of this book to several friends and to my parents. ... |  You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)Best Price: $13.92 I hope my review isn't seen as less credible because of this, but I know Louise, her wife,... |
 Conjoined Twins in Black and White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)Best Price: $18.77 Conjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first... |  Alfred Kazin's JournalsBest Price: $34.74 At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential... |  African Visions: The Diary of an African PhotographerBest Price: $430.98 This book contains images of modest nudity, including nursing mothers and children, that would... |  Personal Memoirs of U. S. GrantBest Price: $10.12 Ulysses S. Grant is one of the most famous figures in American history. He was the Union general... |  Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual NieceBest Price: $11.95 This was one of the worst books that I've read in a while and I'm so glad that i got it... |
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