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 Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's AdversitiesBest Price: $4.73 The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and... |  Cross CreekI had mixed feelings about this book. Before I read it I was expecting an account of Marjorie... |  All Over but the Shoutin'Best Price: $28.10 Rick Bragg clearly believes that before you can know where you're going, you have to look at... |  Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina MemoirBest Price: $12.74 There are not enough stars on this site to rate this book. I read it continuously until I was... | Generations: An American Family The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to... |
| A West Virginia Timberman's Daughter I thought I was purchasing a novel about growing up in Pipestem, West Virginia. I didn't... | The adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown kid, Texas cowboy, prisoner of war Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the... | The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and... | Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi Best Price: $10.20 In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of... | Ava's Man Best Price: $2.90 As impossible as it may seem, Rick Bragg's soaring, compelling and inspiring "Ava's... |
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 A Widow's MightBest Price: $7.95 The story of <I>A Widow's Might</I> gives us all a glimpse of... |  Secret Pleasures: A Journey in My Head, A Guided Tour of Rare People, Plots, and Places, with A Sprinkle of Bawdy Tales Along the WayBest Price: $62.04 Tom Fitzpatrick has been one of Alabama's best kept secrets. This first-rate, eclectic,... |  The Jew Store: A Family MemoirBest Price: $1.37 "For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should also make a... |  Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer: Judge Garnett AndrewsBest Price: $20.00 The old judge enjoyed swapping tales and sharing company with other lawyers, politicians, and... |  Memories and ImagesBest Price: $21.93 Memories And Images: The World Of Donald Vogel And Valley House Gallery is the story of Donald... |
 Walking George: The Life of George John Beto and the Rise of the Modern Texas Prison System (North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series)Best Price: $29.94 I was a graduate student at the Criminal Justice Center at Sam Houston in the mid 1970s. I had... |  Rough As a Cob: More from the Juliette JournalsBest Price: $12.71 Ed Williams continued his life story in "Rough As A Cob" with even more hilarity than... |  Last Cow DoctorLast Cow Doctor John McCormack Tens of thousands of readers have fallen in love with Dr.... |  Texas Wanderlust: The Adventures of Dutch Wurzbach (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)Best Price: $29.95 Enjoyable account of the early days of the Republic of Texas. A little old man was interiewed... |  One Christmas in Old TascosaBest Price: $14.98 One Christmas in Old Tascosa. By Casandra Firman as told by Quintille Speck-Firman Garmany. ... |
 War, Politics and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in LouisianaBest Price: $31.13 1930. The autobiographical account of Louisiana Governor Warmoth. Warmoth was born in... |  Pioneers And Makers Of ArkansasBest Price: $11.00 My copy of Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas was very poorly done. There were several repeated... |  My Life as I Remember It: Growing Up in AlabamaBest Price: $31.87 In writing my book I tried, to the best of my memory (and with the help of a lot of people), to... |  Roberta: A Most Remarkable FulbrightBest Price: $68.78 Biography of Roberta Fulbright |  Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (Frances B. Vick)Best Price: $12.47 My family came to Texas when it still belonged to Spain and I grew up in South Texas in roughly... |
 Remembering WillieBest Price: $7.45 People said that Willie was like FDR, because no matter who you were, you felt like you were his... |  The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)Best Price: $31.97 First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of... |  The Coalwood Way (The Coalwood Series #2)Best Price: $32.95 The Coalwood Way was delicious. I read it in a day. A glorious read, great characters,... |  Ava's ManBest Price: $5.99 With his improbable personal background and deft story-telling, Rick Bragg has earned an avid... |  North Toward HomeBest Price: $7.14 After seeing the movie My Dog Skip, I bought this book to learn about a educated man who grew up... |
 The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in MississippiBest Price: $8.49 Exploring the consequences of straddling two cultures, "The Peddler's Grandson"... |  Gal: A True LifeBest Price: $15.99 I simply loved this book. I have the hardcover version and have read it over the years when I... |  Wind Chimes and PromisesBest Price: $10.06 This book was a wholesome story of a family's life spanning fifty years beginning in Georgia... |  The Coalwood Way (The Coalwood Series #2)Best Price: $28.47 It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their... |  Border PilotBest Price: $17.94 It doesn't matter what kind of pilot you are, or if you're just an airport fence sitter.... |
 When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConteBest Price: $13.77 Though Emma writes from the perspective of the losing side of the Civil War, and though her... |  Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 6, T-ZBest Price: $66.23 This volume of 456 entries marks the completion of the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography ,... |  The Remembered Gate: Memoirs By Alabama Writers (Deep South Books)Best Price: $19.92 This collection of reflective essays?all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and... |  Deep South: Memory and ObservationBest Price: $11.49 In this small book Erskine Caldwell shares with us his memories of his father and the world of... |  A Childhood: The Biography of a PlaceBest Price: $20.00 I was assigned this book in a tutorial class on the "mind of the south" by a... |
 Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia's First Chief JusticeBest Price: $29.23 This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose... |  Windmills, Drouths and Cottonseed Cake: A Biased Biography of a West Texas RancherBest Price: $6.95 |  Hazel Vaughn Leigh and the Fort Worth Boys' ClubBest Price: $8.98 |  Mississippi heroes |  Last of the BighamsBest Price: $13.61 Although one cannot accuse J.A. Zeigler of being a creative writer, his account of this... |
 The Sunrise Remembers: Memories from the JourneyBest Price: $11.50 Having grown up in Jackie's home town and known him for many years, his books are a trip... | ||||
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