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Half a Life: A Memoir by Darin Strauss Staff Pick Darin Strauss dissects the one event that forever demarcates his life: as a teenager, he kills a schoolmate after hitting her with his car. To his credit, Strauss never once plays the pity card; instead he seems to question his every emotion and thought for signs of weakness. As he grows into adulthood, he shares his story with others and sits unflinchingly while they either excoriate or coddle him. No, this memoir is not for the faint of heart — demanding introspection and exhaustive emotional digging are the hallmarks of his life. Half a Life not only describes Strauss's life but also his schoolmate's life, and he mines this reality for all its subtle and explicit meaning. Kudos to Strauss for his strength in not only living this particular nightmare but for sharing it, as well. Recommended by Dianah, Powells.com List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Signed Edition by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bossypants by Tina Fey Publisher Comments Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $11.19 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Staff Pick The Chronology of Water was not what I was expecting or hoping for. It was more beautiful, poetic, and painful than anything I've read in a long time. I picked it up looking for debauchery and depravity; I found breathlessness. Recommended by Linda C., Powells.com List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Publisher Comments On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover
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Almost Home by Damien Echols Publisher Comments Almost Home is a message to you from a faraway place. It is a message from a 12-foot by 9-foot cell in a cinderblock building surrounded by coils of razor wire in the middle of a dirt field in Arkansas. It was written by a young man named Damien Echols... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price: $5.33 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine by Eric Weiner Publisher Comments When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner, an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. Have you found your God yet? The thought of it nags him, and prods him and... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Just Kids by Patti Smith Staff Pick In her memoir Just Kids, Smith chronicles her lifelong friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. A gifted wordsmith, she's vividly observant and sometimes painfully self-aware, with a voice possessed not only of yearning but also of experience.... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments The New York Times... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens by Joan Reardon Publisher Comments A portrait of the life and career of noted culinary writer M. F. K. Fisher is set against the background of the many kitchens that she had known, the foods she had consumed in each of them, and their influence on her ideas about the art of eating, in an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America the Joy of Cooking by Anne Mendelson Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Real Romney by Michael Kranish Publisher Comments Mitt Romney has masterfully positioned himself as the front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Even though he’s become a household name, the former Massachusetts governor remains an enigma to many in America, his character and... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Bossypants by Tina Fey Staff Pick Readers sometimes lower the bar when it comes to the quality of celebrity memoirs, but, in this case, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Tina Fey is a legitimately talented writer, and the stories from her personal life are just as zany and... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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