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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days by Luis Rodriguez Publisher Comments This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich Publisher Comments The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson Publisher Comments When the stewardess brought me off the plane in a wheelchair, I lowered my head. I was too scared to even look at my father. I didn't want to see the disappointment and horror on his face. All that hate I had accumulated for him over the years, all the... (read more) List Price $32.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Here is a book as joyous and painful, and as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth (Perennial Classics) by Richard Wright Publisher Comments Plot Summary "Black Boy is Richard Wright's memoir of his life from early childhood to the launching of his career as a writer. His father abandoned the family soon after they moved to Memphis, leaving Wright, his mother and brother in dire straits... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Private Parts by Howard Stern Publisher Comments The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, Private Parts, will be released on March 14 as a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. This is the event Stern's millions of fans have been waiting for. Yes,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'emilio Publisher Comments One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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