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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Vintage) by Cheryl Strayed Staff Pick I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Attempting Normal by Marc Maron Publisher Comments People make a mess. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell Publisher Comments The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll... From an early age, Richard Hell... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $20.95 Used - Hardcover
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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments "This poetic memoir continues the work Williams began in Refuge....Williams explores her mothers identity — woman, wife, mother, and Mormon — as she continues to honor her memory....A lyrical and elliptical meditation on women, nature, family,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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With or Without You: A Memoir by Domenica Ruta Publisher Comments A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation — the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice. Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Publisher Comments Includes a new chapter! When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields Staff Pick David Shields's new book is a collagist's and lit lover's dream come true. Erudite and thoughtful, if you've ever lived or read a novel, you'll find much to admire and ruminate upon.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure Publisher Comments Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder — a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she’s never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She traces the pioneer... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth Publisher Comments The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013 Less than a year after the first season finale, PBSs hit series Call the Midwife returns to Sunday nights this spring with an all-new eight-episode season. Fans of... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright Publisher Comments Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Staff Pick The Other Wes Moore is the fascinating tale of two men who shared a name and a birthplace; their lives started out in similar circumstances and ended up very differently (one a Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in jail). A moving... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin Publisher Comments One womans quest to do one new thing every day of the year, what she learned, and what we all can gain from her journey... In 2009 veteran journalist and eight-time Emmy award winner Lu Ann Cahn was feeling angry and frustrated. The economy was tanking... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era by Alex Shishin Publisher Comments Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex... (read more) Your price: $21.50 New - Trade Paper
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Call the Midwife #03: Call the Midwife, Volume 3: Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth Publisher Comments The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth Publisher Comments The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones Publisher Comments While hiding from limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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