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Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall  Publisher Comments A New York Times Bestseller and 2007 Book Sense Selection Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her...
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Notes on a Life
by Eleanor Coppola Publisher Comments Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years...
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Hope's Boy
by Andrew Bridge Publisher Comments In his memoir, Andrew Bridge reflects with acute perception and openness on a devestating young life. At 7-years-old, Andrew was forced into foster care after authorities declared his mother Hope unfit to raise him.& nbsp; Barely an adult herself and...
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The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
by Jon Katz Synopsis Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can. -from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm When Jon Katz adopted a border collie named Orson, his whole world...
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The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir
by Jill Price Publisher Comments Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost...
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald Ford
by Thomas M. DeFrank Publisher Comments In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny,...
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone loved. Three bright...
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The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
by Tom Jr Farley Publisher Comments A biography of the Saturday Night Live star as told by his friends and family No one dominated a stage the way Chris Farley did. For him, comedy was not a routine; it was a way of life. He could not enter a room unnoticed or let a conversation go without...
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Always by My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other
by Jim Nantz Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of Big Russ and Me, Americaas most visible sports commentator tells the stories of some of the most dramatic moments in American sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him to pursue his broadcasting dreama his...
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The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery
by Leigh Montville Publisher Comments He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as “the greatest golfer in the world.” Then, in 1937, the...
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Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography (P.S.)
by Sebastian Horsley Publisher Comments In the honorable tradition of the eccentric dandyism of Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, and Quentin Crisp comes Sebastian Horsley's disarming memoir of sex, drugs, and Savile Row....
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The Prince of Frogtown
by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own...
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House Rules: A Memoir
by Rachel Sontag Publisher Comments At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal fights; disobedience meant humiliating punishments. When...
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Shakespeare's Wife
by Germaine Greer Publisher Comments Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an...
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The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
by Nicholas Dawidoff Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling The Catcher Was a Spy, his most original work yet: a memoir of two cities (New Haven and New York), a family (troubled), a time (the 1970s), a boy who never quite fits in anywhere--and how baseball helps him find his...
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
by Lucette Lagnado 
Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant...
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I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
by Michael Hastings Publisher Comments At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter -- cell phones, high-speed Internet access...
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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most...
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
by Ta Nehisi Coates Publisher Comments An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new...
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All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
by Myra Macpherson Publisher Comments Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a...
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