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 On WritingBest Price: $3.70 I found King's book on writing both helpful and highly entertaining. One of the greatest... |  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusBest Price: $4.14 My good friend highly recommended this book for me to read last summer, citing Dave Eggers as... |  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American DreamBest Price: $7.47 Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of the most powerful most inspired... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $7.95 A laugh out loud look at a boy growing up in Iowa in the 1950s. A wonderful nostalgic look at... |  I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsBest Price: $2.71 We are the members of the South Mill Young Readers Book Club located in Conyers, Georgia. We... |
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 Darkness Visible: A Memoir of MadnessBest Price: $5.78 It would be lovely to believe that depression can be cured as it was for him. That all it takes... |  An American ChildhoodBest Price: $5.00 I'll be honest; I absolutely *hated* this book when I first read it (for a class, the summer... |  Origins: A MemoirBest Price: $14.53 I am amazed with the speed and proffesionalism of delivering and quality of the transaction. ... |  American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the CenturyBest Price: $16.13 I thought this book was well researched in that it provided detailed background into Nesbit's... |  Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on FaithBest Price: $7.27 What's not to like about Anne Lamott's Grace Eventually? A collection of essays in which she... |
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 Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)Best Price: $8.25 Steinbeck's Travels with Charley was his last book I believe. This is a memoir of John... |  The KissBest Price: $6.47 I am glad I picked this memoir up again..after at least the second time. Parts of it were poetic... |  The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)Best Price: $5.76 Many academics and scholars border on creative madness, take Kierkegaard and Nietzsche for... |  Survival In AuschwitzBest Price: $3.63 I like the author. Many years ago he wrote "Christus kam nur bis Eboli" and that made... |  The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient WisdomBest Price: $7.29 This book does not necessarily contain any "answers", apart from the author's own... |
 Girl, InterruptedBest Price: $2.33 "Girl, Interrupted", probably known better by the film adaptation, is a memoir of a... |  The Sum of Our Days: A MemoirBest Price: $12.89 Enlightening as well. "Love is a lighting bolt that strikes suddenly changing... |  LincolnBest Price: $7.67 This is a biography of Lincoln. The problem in writing a biography of Lincoln, of course, is... |  Notebooks 1951-1959Best Price: $17.99 College-level collections strong on Camus will find this a special acquisition presenting the... |  Her Last Death: A MemoirBest Price: $13.51 I love memoirs and I found Her last Death to be hard to leave when I had to go to work, but I... |
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 Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early LifeBest Price: $4.95 I love most of what C.S. Lewis writes. I can read the Narnia series over and over, and I adore... |  Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherBest Price: $17.00 Thank you to Jim Matteson for reading every scrap the Alcotts left behind and digesting it into... |  A Three Dog LifeBest Price: $0.95 I'm always looking for a new "dog book" of quality. Well, this wasn't exactly just a... |  Three Weeks with My BrotherBest Price: $4.30 Warning. Don't read the front cover flap of this book. It is a plot buster. This book is for... |  Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. ThompsonBest Price: $15.02 The following was posted on the Owl Farm (Hunter's fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado)... |
 The Water is WideBest Price: $4.17 This is an early example of the promise of Pat Conroy. Everything I have read of his has been... |  Why I Came West: A MemoirBest Price: $14.94 A passionate memoir about the great divides in Rick Bass's beloved Yaak Valley, the West as a... |  Magical Thinking: True StoriesBest Price: $5.49 i totally love augusten's way of thinking. he's so funny and smart. love everything i've ever... |  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaBest Price: $8.35 I am a math teacher and read this book on recommendation from a fellow math teacher. The book is... |  The Writing LifeBest Price: $5.49 This book is a gem - the best book I have yet had the privilege of reading about the craft of... |
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