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Biography



Biography

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    Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales

    Clarence Clemons and Don Reo
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    Collections of Nothing

    William Davies King
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    Stitches

    David Small
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    Open: An Autobiography

    Andre Agassi

Religious
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I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence
I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence
by Walter Trobisch
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The spiritual vision of Trobisch's classic answers to love's questions is reproduced here in a new edition.... (read more)

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The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Helen Keller
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Great story of human courage and dedication recounted in autobiography of a remarkable woman: the magical moment when Miss Keller first recognizes the connection between words and objects, her joy at learning how to speak, friendships with notable... (read more)

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Night
Night
by Elie Wiesel
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel... (read more)

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Cooking
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My Life in France
My Life in France
by Julia Child
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Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing... (read more)

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Humanitarians
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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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 Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more)

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Childhood Memoir
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Colors of the Mountain (99 Edition)
Colors of the Mountain (99 Edition)
by Da Chen
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Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. <BR>Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao... (read more)

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Ethnic Cultures
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more)

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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
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Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild knows he was born to write about quirky, iconoclastic characters who travel their own road, ultimately leading to a tragic demise. Where Men Win Glory is every bit as captivating and even more timely than... (read more)

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The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
by Elna Baker
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Writer, actress, and gorgeous stand up comedian: Introducing the Mormon Tina Fey! It's lonely being a Mormon in New York City. So once again, Elna Baker attends the New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance — a virgin in a room full of... (read more)

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Under a Wing: A Memoir (New York Times Notable Books)
Under a Wing: A Memoir (New York Times Notable Books)
by Reeve Lindbergh
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The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and controversial isolationist during World War II. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was a bestselling author. To their five children, they were Father -- never Daddy --... (read more)

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I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence
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    by Walter Trobisch
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    by Helen Keller
  3. Night
    by Elie Wiesel
  4. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
    by Barack Obama
  5. My Life in France
    by Julia Child

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Biography

Monday, November 23, 2009
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Original Essays | Today, 4:49pm

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire



Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller



donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
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Guests | October 27, 2009

Elna Baker: IMG Sylvia Plath's Advice from Beyond the Grave



First off, thank you for the costume suggestions. They were all marvelous. I'm leaning towards the clever-yet-sexy Freudian slip. On the other hand,... Continue »
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    The Story of a Marriage

    Andrew Sean Greer
Guests | October 26, 2009

Elna Baker: IMG The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance



Hello readers, My name is Elna Baker and I will be your guest blogger for the next week. Whazzzup? For those of you unfamiliar with my work, or me... Continue »
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Original Essays | September 26, 2009

Bryan Mealer: IMG Rediscovering Africa through a Boy and His Windmill



One of the chief pleasures in writing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with William Kamkwamba was knowing that such an inspiring story was coming from a most unlikely place. With the daily news from Africa so traditionally grim, it's no wonder most people have given up on the place. As one of those reporters who... Continue »
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