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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazines No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $15.40 Sale - Hardcover 
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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Publisher Comments In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Publisher Comments A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships — with her parents, with her husband, and with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $16.07 Sale - Hardcover
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson Publisher Comments For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris — Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father (a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman Publisher Comments As one of the greatest rock icons of all time, Gregg Allman has lived it all and then some. For almost fifty years, he's been creating some of the most recognizable songs in American rock, but never before has he paused to reflect on the long road he's... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Staff Pick Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author and king of "immersion journalism" A.J. Jacobs tackles his most challenging experiment yet: a yearlong mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind — from his brain to his fingertips to his abs... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave by Stefan Gates Publisher Comments An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, "Gastronaut" is equal parts cookbook and quest book. This hilarious journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Childs experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton Staff Pick Hamilton is the chef-owner of acclaimed NYC restaurant Prune. Her memoir is compelling, harrowing, beautifully written, and utterly charming, whether she's invoking memories of fields of fireflies or gritty kitchen realities. Anthony Bourdain loves this... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story by Frank Meeink and Jody M. Roy Publisher Comments Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Joan Reardon Publisher Comments With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Jamie Oliver Effect: The Man, the Food, the Revolution by Gilly Smith Publisher Comments By the age of eight, Jamie Oliver was already cooking in his parents' pub and restaurant. By the age of 22, his foul mouth and mischievous image in the kitchens of The River Café won him his own TV series, The Naked Chef... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews Publisher Comments The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities. Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Childs experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin' by Paula Deen Publisher Comments • Fans love Paula Deen: Paula Deen: It Ain’t About the Cookin’ spent over 3 months on the New York Times bestseller list: there are over 500,000 hardcovers in print.. • A superstar Author - Paula Deen is an American icon. She is one... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family by Louise Desalvo Publisher Comments During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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