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Crazy Enough: A Memoir by Storm Large Publisher Comments Yes, Storm Large is her real name, though shes been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “Powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover 
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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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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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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle Publisher Comments He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith Publisher Comments The groundbreaking discovery that shows why women need fat to lose fat A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief. At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford Publisher Comments In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country—and Mimi was eager to... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Vow: The True Events That Inspired the Movie by Kim Carpenter Publisher Comments Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993. Two months after their marriage, a devastating car wreck left Krickitt with a massive head injury and in a coma for weeks. When she finally awoke, she had... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments We all carry people inside our heads—actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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The Last Holiday by Gil Scott-heron Publisher Comments In the Fall of 1980, Gil Scott-Heron was invited by Stevie Wonder to join a forty-one city tour across America that would end in Washington on January 15, 1981. The purpose was to raise support for the creation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a national... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Book of Drugs: A Memoir by Mike Doughty Publisher Comments Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He battled addiction,... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones by Connie Rice Publisher Comments From one of Americas most influential civil rights attorneys, Power Concedes Nothing is a hard-hitting memoir chronicling a fiercely dedicated womans quest to win the first of all human rights: freedom from violence. CONNIE RICE has taken on school and... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors by Paul A Ruggieri Publisher Comments As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness by Patrick Cockburn Publisher Comments On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton, England, and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home by Mark Richard Publisher Comments Crippled by deformed hips as a child, Mark Richard was told he would spend his adult life in a wheelchair. The son of an unpredictable, violent father and a mother who sought inner peace through scripture, Richard spent his bedridden childhood in the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation by Jon M. Sweeney Publisher Comments At the close of the tumultuous Middle Ages, there lived a man who seemed destined from birth to save the world. His name was Peter Morrone, a hermit, a founder of a religious order, and, depending on whom you talk to, a reformer, an instigator, a prophet,... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas by Deb Olin Unferth Publisher Comments Hailed as a “virtuosic one-woman show” (Time Out New York) this New York Times Book Review Editors Choice pick tells the funny and poignant story of the year the author ran away from college with her idealistic boyfriend and followed him to... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Ali Wentworth Publisher Comments Growing up in a family of political journalists—and daughter of President Reagan’s White House social secretary—Ali Wentworth rebelled against her blue-blood upbringing, embracing Hollywood, motorcycles, even a few wildly inappropriate... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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In Stitches by Anthony Youn Publisher Comments Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith Publisher Comments In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years: Speaking Out Against Hitler in the Prelude to War by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments In 1928, Winston Churchill was at the height of his career. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a powerful and popular orator, leadership of the Conservative Party seemed within his grasp. A year later, however, all had changed. The Conservatives were... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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