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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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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee Publisher Comments WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian... (read more) Your price: $25.99 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: $8.00 Used - 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 $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 of her... (read more) Available March 20, 2012 Your price: $25.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett Staff Pick Patchett's eloquent prose gives a vivid portrait of the friendship that she and Lucy Grealy shared. I applaud Patchett's honesty and her refusal to gloss over the difficulties of their friendship. When I found out that Lucy Grealy had died, I was stunned... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rat Girl: A Memoir by Kristin Hersh Staff Pick If you're a fan of Throwing Muses or Kristin Hersh, you must absolutely read this book. If you don't know her music, introduce yourself here to Hersh's writing. Her voice is unlike any other: hopeful, poetic, and brimming with razor-sharp intelligence... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp Publisher Comments Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde Publisher Comments “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . .... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery Publisher Comments In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, a lively salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Bailey Publisher Comments It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 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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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 $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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