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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama  
Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a...
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The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields
Powells.com Staff Pick "I've been weirdly giddy ever since finishing the book," David Shields admits. "Somehow I find the mortality data strangely liberating." Somehow this isn't surprising. In The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Shields takes readers from...
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser Publisher Comments Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (07 Edition)
by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch Publisher Comments "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." — Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while...
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
Powells.com Staff Pick The brother of Augusten Burroughs (author of the bestselling memoir Running with Scissors) has created an entertaining and often surprising memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome. Whether you know someone on the autism spectrum or you're...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
Powells.com Staff Pick Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious...
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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters Publisher Comments Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package." And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that...
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Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the...
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
Powells.com Staff Pick At times uproarious, often sentimental, and always laced with the wit and charm we've come to expect from Steve Martin, this is a warm and enjoyable portrait of his life in stand-up from childhood to his last show in 1981. Recommended by Ann, Powells....
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
Powells.com Staff Pick Charlatan reads like a highly imaginative novel and is everything a work of popular history should be. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Steve Coll Publisher Comments Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden familyas rise to power and privilege, revealing new information to show how American influences changed the family and how one...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff Publisher Comments What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of renowned journalist David Sheff's harrowing journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps...
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Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
by Samantha Power Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, an epic tale-part thriller, part tragedy-for our age, the political career and tragic death of the incomparable humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello If there is a single individual who can be said to have been at...
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Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age--And Other Unexpected Adventures
by Reeve Lindbergh Publisher Comments In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering a new stage in life, turning sixty, the period her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once described as "the youth of old age." It is a time of life, she writes, that produces some...
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and...
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A Remarkable Mother
by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer...
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening...
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