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 Stop-Time: A MemoirBest Price: $4.25 At first, I was challenged by Conroy's use of section breaks; I was looking for congruency and... |  Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (My Autobiography, To1949, Vol 1 1949)Best Price: $6.35 This was actually my first experience with Doris Lessing, tho I've heard of her for years. Her... |  Life Is So GoodBest Price: $3.99 Life Is So Good An absolutely fascinating autobiography as told by Mr. Dawson. His experiances... |  The Animated Man: A Life of Walt DisneyBest Price: $12.23 In preparation for a recent trip to WDW, I wanted to read a biography the man himself. I spent a... |  Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became ShakespeareBest Price: $7.41 I think a lot of Shakespeare fans are grateful when a new bio comes out. It seems to revive the... |
 Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian PastBest Price: $4.99 A very good, well written story of the author's discovery of his own Armenian roots and the... |  John Muir : Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Essays (Library of America)Best Price: $20.58 This is essential reading for anyone interested in conservation and those who simply love nature... |  Taking WoodstockBest Price: $15.61 This book just takes me back to the Woodstock Days....I was 19 and never went as I had a 3 month... |  Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters: Defending the Earth with Ultraman and GodzillaBest Price: $17.95 This book is a meticulous, thoughtful, well-written, and beautifully laid-out tribute to a true... |  A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musicians)Best Price: $15.59 Townes Van Zandt was a cult musician with a lot of demons like mental illness and alcoholism and... |
 The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy 1915-1963Best Price: $23.99 This is an excellent book with lots of interviews with Les Paul and others who were part of the... |  Johann Sebastian Bach (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)Best Price: $3.19 This book has both my boys (ages 6 & 4) laughing and singing (there is a made-up ditty about... |  Herzog on HerzogBest Price: $11.10 Author Paul Cronin was only too hasty to warn us well in advance that we were going to find... |  NakedBest Price: $7.98 This book on audio download is wonderful because the stories are hilarious and insightful, and... |  Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz PartyBest Price: $6.49 This book is an easy read. A lot of the information in it isn't new, but there is some... |
 Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the DoorsBest Price: $10.12 First off I love The Doors, any account of them I can get my grasp on, every album, the poetry... |  Before I Get Old: The Story of the WhoBest Price: $14.87 There are others that would lay claim to it, but this is the definitive Who bio for me. With... |  Kiss and Make-upBest Price: $7.91 I took off a star from Mr. Simmons' book due to his tale being distracted by women and his... |  A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful DeadBest Price: $11.50 Absolutely the best book from the best of sources. We all know that Jerry died but I still cried... |  You'Ve Got Mail, Billie LettsBest Price: $12.89 A very hilarious novel. The author is someone who I would like to know. Such a fun book. |
 A Blue Hand: The Beats in IndiaBest Price: $12.96 I read in the New York Times that Deborah Baker was Barack Obama's editor for his memoir, so I... |  The Story of My LifeBest Price: $1.44 Great book about a great lady who was blind and deaf. She had many struggles but became a... |  Six Steps to Songwriting Success: The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit SongsBest Price: $12.90 I have been a hobby songwriter for many years. I decided to try to take it up a level. Realizing... |  Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom WaitsBest Price: $14.26 Wild Years by Jay S. Jacobs ***** Of all the musical biographies I have ever read (and I have... |  Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?Best Price: $5.30 This is a big book, and I took it everywhere with me for about a week until I finished it. I... |
 Hypocrite in a Pouffy White DressBest Price: $2.50 It took me three attempts to get past the first twenty pages. Once I was into the heart of the... |  Reba: My StoryBest Price: $3.85 Reba is strong and can handle anything thrown her way. This book about her life, one I will... |  Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House)Best Price: $12.57 I thought this scrapbook would be like the "Egyptology", "Wizardology" etc.... |  Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of ZimbabweBest Price: $3.92 Andrew Meldrum was the last foreign journalist thrown out of Zimbabwe and, after spending 23... |  Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (Jewish Life, History, and Culture)Best Price: $15.51 The condition of the used book was just as described, shipping was quick. I am very happy with... |
 Finding FishBest Price: $3.99 If you have any interest in human behavior, this is a must read. It is a true story of a man... |  Against All Odds: My StoryBest Price: $4.50 A must read. Very inspirational. Shows that in this life you should never give up. You must... |  Long Way Round: The Illustrated Edition: Chasing Shadows Across the WorldBest Price: $23.00 The photos are great and compliment the journey and the text. A must have for any touring... |  The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (Campbell, Joseph, Works.)Best Price: $16.17 This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. This is a great book written... |  The Life of Olaudah Equiano (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $1.33 In the later parts of 1700s some opposition of slavery was developed due to horrendous accounts... |
 Love, JanisBest Price: $7.89 once i started to read this book i couldn't put it down until it was finished, was sad to see it... |  Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other CoupleBest Price: $10.19 I haven't read all the book yet but what I have read is very interesting. The only thing I wish... |  A Cry from the Heart: The Biography of Edith PiafBest Price: $10.85 This definitive biography sheds new light on the phenomenon that was Edith Piaf, enlarging on... |  Insight: Case Files From The Psychic WorldBest Price: $5.45 I have read many of Sylvia's books and this one is just as great. The case files really showed... |  How Reading Changed My LifeBest Price: $2.49 After eighteen years of being stereotyped as "the book worm," it's good to know that... |
 Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement: Confessions Of A Former Worship LeaderBest Price: $6.69 If I could rate this book LESS than one-star I would, for it doesn't even deserve that. In a... |  The Heart of a WomanBest Price: $0.49 Maya has such an impeccable method of penning and conveying her prose!! This was a wonderful... |  Thomas Hope: Regency DesignerBest Price: $61.15 This is a truly excellent addition to the rather small literature on Thomas Hope. Every facet of... |  Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee - by Their Son Dodd DarinBest Price: $23.21 Reading this book made me realize how malignant a place Hollywood is to a black widow -who eat... |  Isak Dinesen: The Life of a StorytellerBest Price: $3.99 A very interesting and thoroughly researched book on Isak Dinesen a/k/a Karen Blixen. A must... |
 Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual JourneyBest Price: $8.42 Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden helped me learn some new Spanish words, soak in Chile,... |  Billy Joel: The BiographyBest Price: $2.73 While it's nice to have a biography about Billy Joel on the shelves, author Mark Bego leaves a... |  Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsBest Price: $8.39 I think one reason I liked it was that Johnny Did Not Glamorize or Glorify anything. He writes... |  Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert IrwinBest Price: $11.13 Robert Irwin has lived his life as both a solitary creator and unrelenting seeker to the same... |  Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a FamilyBest Price: $5.90 Alexander Waugh writes with intimacy and honesty about his lineage. Stocked with access to... |
 Fates Worse Than DeathBest Price: $5.99 I read Kurt Vonnegut--not for his stories (though fun and interesting and. . .)--but to see how... |  Cancer SchmancerBest Price: $5.97 I had just been diagnosed with endometrial cancer when a friend mentioned that Fran Drescher had... |  The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver StreetBest Price: $5.59 Charles Nicholl's earlier book, *The Reckoning,* about the spy-murder of Christopher Marlowe,... |  Dark Victory: The Life of Bette DavisBest Price: $12.90 This is the only bio I've read on Bette Davis so I can't compare it to any others. Most of... |  Eva Cassidy: Songbird: Her Story by Those Who Knew HerBest Price: $3.83 Eva Cassidy, it is stated in the beginning of this book, was not an angel. She had the voice of... |
 World of YesterdayBest Price: $13.00 Stefan Zweig writes a great memoir about the world before the Nazi Destruction of Europe. He... | ||||
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