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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
The events of five years in the life of Augusten Burroughs, as recounted in a memoir that is both horrifying and mordantly funny, are so unbelievable, they make even the most outrageous episode of 'The Jerry Springer Show' seem rational by comparison. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS just might be the
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Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley
In this unforgettable, #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, Bradley (Flyboys) captures the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls’s memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As the two of them dragged the family
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and
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No Regrets (Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol....
by Ann Rule
A new collection of true crime stories about psychopaths and sociopaths who kill ruthlessly, without remorse, includes the tale of a Seattle sea captain who is tricked into marriage and cheated out of his fortune by the mother of his illegitimate children before being murdered by her and her
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and...
by Barack Obama
All men live in the shadow of their fathers--the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can...
by Malcolm Gladwell
The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life,' writes Malcolm Gladwell, 'is to think of them as epidemics.
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Teacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA’S ASHES and ’TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of...
by Don Piper
Baptist minister Piper tells of experiencing heaven for the 90 minutes he was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident. After miraculously coming back to life and working through a long and painful recovery, friends and family finally convinced him to share his remarkable story.
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young...
by Mitch Albom
In TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, sportswriter and best-selling author Mitch Albom chronicles his weekly conversations with his former college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, in the months before the Brandeis University sociologist succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's
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