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This Boy's Life: A Memoir
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir
by Tobias Wolff

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This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

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The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ." . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the...
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days
by Luis Rodriguez

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This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide....
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich

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The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas — and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under...
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane

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Written with courage and conviction, Mark Mathbane's reveals the extraordinary memoir of growing up in a world under apartheid. B&W photo insert....
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Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth (Perennial Classics)
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Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth (Perennial Classics)
by Richard Wright

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Plot Summary "Black Boy is Richard Wright's memoir of his life from early childhood to the launching of his career as a writer. His father abandoned the family soon after they moved to Memphis, leaving Wright, his mother and brother in dire straits...
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
by Jenna Jameson

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When the stewardess brought me off the plane in a wheelchair, I lowered my head. I was too scared to even look at my father. I didn't want to see the disappointment and horror on his face. All that hate I had accumulated for him over the years, all the...
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
by John D'emilio

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One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a...
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