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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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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West) by Elinore P Stewart Publisher Comments Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Grayson by Lynne Cox Staff Pick You'd swear from the synopsis that it's fiction, grist for an after-school special or Disney's latest blockbuster. But, no, 17-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale that had... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt Publisher Comments From O magazine to the New York Times, from authors such as E. L. Doctorow to Ann Beattie, critics and writers across the country have hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as an evocative, moving testament to the enduring power of a parent's love and... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Publisher Comments In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Live From Jordan: Letters Home for my Journey Through the Middle East by Benjamin Orbach Publisher Comments Engaging and evocative, Live from Jordan is one man's irreverent and insightful chronicle of his journey into the Arab world on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Despite having a degree in Middle Eastern studies, Benjamin Orbach was completed... (read more) Your price: $2.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison (Counterpunch) by Kathy Kelly Publisher Comments In the spring of 2004, human rights activist Kathy Kelly, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was sent to Pekin Federal Prison for leading a protest at the School of the Americas. While in prison, Kelly’s organization, Voices in the... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Butch Cassidy: A Biography (Bison Book) by Richard Patterson Publisher Comments Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee Publisher Comments Already hailed as brave, emotional, and gorgeously written by Frances Mayes and like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the search for... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn Publisher Comments A delightful true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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They Cage the Animals At Night (84 Edition) by Jennings M. Burch Publisher Comments At the age of eight, the author began a three-year odyssey through a series of orphan asylums and foster homes, punctuated by episodes of living in the streets—a journey through a world of hostile strangers, abusive adults, and suspicious children.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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William's Book of Poems and Short Stories by William D. Reid Publisher Comments A few years after I had been out of High School, I had started to learn how to write poetry. I was about 23 years old at the time. I was learning how to write and at the same time I was helping around the family farm.While growing up on the farm, we had... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell Staff Pick Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those more... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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James Herriot's Dog Stories: Warm and Wonderful Stories about the Animals Herriot Loves Best by James Herriot Publisher Comments In this very special, heartwarming collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us to both laughter... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Alleluia America!: an Irish Journalist in Bush Country by Carole Coleman Publisher Comments From 2000 to 2004 Carole Coleman was the Washington correspondent for Ireland's national broadcaster. RTE. In June 2004. on the eve of Bush's visit to Ireland, she was given the opportunity to conduct a ten-minute interview with him. If the president's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story by Martha Tod Dudman Publisher Comments The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her. True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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