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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Publisher Comments A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Staff Pick Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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When Women Were Birds Signed Edition by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebrates Terry Tempest Williams's mother told her: "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone... (read more) Available June 20, 2012 Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover 
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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg Staff Pick A Homemade Life combines my favorite elements: memoir, travel writing, food writing, recipes, a beautiful love story, and quirky family anecdotes, along with all the things that make the Orangette blog one of my online obsessions. Molly Wizenberg weaves... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments In the tradition ofPersepolisandAmerican Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M., sophomore, is a wry and endearing observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy. (andldquo;The name makes it sound fancier than... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie Ten Boom Publisher Comments “I pray that God forgive them...” Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,”... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen Publisher Comments In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond by Lilly Ledbetter Publisher Comments The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation. ... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia by Harriet Brown Publisher Comments I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood by Anne Enright Publisher Comments Anne Enright is one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation. The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and her follow-up novel, The Forgotten Waltz, garnered universal praise for her luminous language and deep insight into relationships. Now,... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" by Margaret Powell Publisher Comments Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powells classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Hardcover
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Operating Instructions (05 Edition) by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments "I woke up with a start at 4:00 one morning and realized that I was very, very pregnant." So begins novelist Aniie Lamott's journal of the birth of her son, Sam, and their first year together. She must face complicated circumstances of heroic proportions.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale Publisher Comments ‘Joe Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. Educated in Connecticut, she returned to Europe in 1916 and drove ambulances for the Womens Legion in France. She deserted her husband at the... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach Publisher Comments In many ways, I was an independent woman, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow. But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. I had fallen into... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Mothers Tell All by Harlyn Aizley Publisher Comments After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, "I'm your new mommy!" While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Beryl Markham is also the author of The Splendid Outcast: The African Stories of Beryl Markham. Growing up in East... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Thin Is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel Publisher Comments “Val Frankel is a woman of amazing insight. . . . Read this, weep, and heal.” —Stacy London, cohost of What Not to Wear Youve heard the phrase “the mirror is not your friend.” For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein Publisher Comments All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Publisher Comments In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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