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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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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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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott Publisher Comments A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice Publisher Comments A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female, middle-aged, and without... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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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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I Did It for Love by Hermion Chiddick Publisher Comments Driven by a quest to find love, author Hermion Chiddick embarked upon many shattered romances and heartbreaks. She spent most of her adult life searching for love in the wrong places, using sex as an opiate to escape the loneliness she felt inside... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba Publisher Comments The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The Kings Speech. ... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Nomad : Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt (03 Edition) by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree, Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Le by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her greatest... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Where You Left Me by Jennifer Gardner Trulson Publisher Comments LUCKY—thats how Jennifer would describe herself. She had a successful law career, met and married the love of her life in Doug, had an apartment in New York City, a house in the Hamptons, two beautiful children, and was still madly in love... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Sister to Queen Anne Boleyn, she was seduced by two kings and was an intimate player in one of history’s most gripping dramas. Yet much of what we know about Mary Boleyn has been fostered through garbled gossip, romantic fiction, and the... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks Publisher Comments Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo Publisher Comments The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, showed the world how to live with style, and emerged a legend. Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow — the Veuve Clicquot... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $26.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh (07 Edition) by Linda Colley Publisher Comments In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto by Julia Child Publisher Comments A National Bestseller Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing “An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship.” — Entertainment Weekly “Julias inimitable voice shines... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics) by Margery Kempe Publisher Comments The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe is the earliest surviving autobiography in English.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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