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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson  
Powells.com Staff Pick I grew up in Minnesota, just north of Iowa where Bill Bryson's memoir is set. I laughed out loud at his descriptions of bundling up the children to face the Midwestern winters and other passages. He also beautifully captures the innocence and security...
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Notebooks 1951-1959
by Albert Camus Synopsis The final journals of Albert Camus were withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death in 1959, and are now published in English for the first time. His final journals offer a rare, intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the...
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On Writing
by Stephen King
From Powells.com "In On Writing, Stephen King celebrates his influences, shares his first attempts at writing, sheds new light on some of his own books, reveals his process, offers his advice, and relates in vivid detail the story of the 1999 roadside accident that...
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom...
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick Stranger than Fiction is the book Palahniuk's devoted readers have been waiting for since Fight Club. These lean, powerful essays wield the blunt force of Palahniuk's gritty novels without the endless digressions that have marred some of his more recent...
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Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided To Go Get Pregnant (00 Edition)
by Dan Savage Publisher Comments From Dan Savage, the writer whose sex-advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites four million people every week, comes the compelling and unexpected story of this journey into parenthood. Dan and his boyfriend, Terry, want a baby. So they do...
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Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet
by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments With unprecedented access to Edgar Cayce's private letters and trance readings, Sidney Kirkpatrick delivers the definitive biography of the renowned psychic, religious seeker, and father of alternative medicine. Born in rural Kentucky in 1877, Edgar...
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Powells.com Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and...
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Life on the Mississippi (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Twain Publisher Comments In this classic memoir -- the inspiration behind Huckleberry Finn -- Twain draws on his experience as a young pilot to recount the story of an extra-ordinary river, the South, and its people. Set from the first American edition (1883), this volume...
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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 as renowned...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the...
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
by William Styron Publisher Comments After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a...
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Dry : a Memoir (03 Edition)
by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry—the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway...
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An American Childhood
by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s....
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America Is in the Heart : a Personal History (73 Edition)
by Carlos Bulosan Publisher Comments First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West....
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in...
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher Benfey Publisher Comments A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought. At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and...
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
by Jean Nathan
Powells.com Staff Pick The fey daughter of a successful portrait artist and sister to a fishing lure inventor, Dare Wright conducted her life like an actress in an autobiographical production. Juxtaposed between innocence and erotica she created nineteen children's books, had...
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One Writer's Beginnings (William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
by Eudora Welty
Publisher Comments Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book. Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings...
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Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
by Irene Gammel Publisher Comments In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables, and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million...
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