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Thinking About Memoir (AARP) Best Price: $8.65 I expected more. I learned just as much from the review/excerpt in AARP magazine as I did from... | Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp Best Price: $12.40 I read Stephanie's first book and loved it. Her writing style is/was exactly what I look for in... | Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Best Price: $5.99 I'm stumped. This memoir is considered a classic, yet there are platoons of unsung memoirs out... | Sitting Bull Best Price: $19.75 SITTING BULL
Bill Yenne
Sitting Bull by Bill Yenne is an interesting read. Yenne utilizes... | A Small Place Best Price: $6.00 If you expect a well-reasoned and persuasive essay, look elsewhere. At best, this is the... |
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Broken Best Price: $5.49 This is a very good book and highly recommended for family members and others dealing with... | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.18 I have read this book myself at least twice. This book was purchased as a graduation present for... | Wooden Best Price: $7.50 I bought this book for my student/athlete son. I had him read the book and find five things that... | Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography Best Price: $16.15 Stanley Plumly finds Keats companionable -- and so do I. Plumly is a distunguished poet, yet... | The Hiding Place Best Price: $3.30 I will not go into detail on this very public site about what this author, and her book, mean to... |
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey Best Price: $7.99 Wonderful book about the Queen of France. From her early days as the Arch Duchess of Austria,... | A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Best Price: $13.64 I read the book and found out pretty quickly that Suze appeared to be capitalizing on her... | Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International) Best Price: $8.38 Kapuscinski reports on the people and political culture of the third and fourth worlds( the... | Heaven's Calling: A Memoir of One Soul's Steep Ascent Best Price: $13.59 Leanne Payne was called out of brokenness into union with Christ, and her nearly fifty-year... | A Moveable Feast Best Price: $6.82 A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of his early days in Paris, is nearly bursting with rich,... |
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Best Price: $10.96 This exhaustive biography of John D. Rockefeller fully explains a misunderstood man. Ron... | Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations Best Price: $8.36 Much has been said about the book's contents in previous reviews. What I would like to add is... | Honor Few, Fear None: The Life and Times of a Mongol Best Price: $14.38 I had read the book, "Under and Alone" years ago. This book is a GREAT look at the... | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir Best Price: $7.11 I have read several of Bryson's books, the most recent being his able essay on Shakespeare, but... | Istanbul: Memories and the City Best Price: $6.99 Istanbul: Memories and the City
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, like Samuel Peyps'... |
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A Moveable Feast Best Price: $6.82 A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of his early days in Paris, is nearly bursting with rich,... | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Best Price: $10.96 This exhaustive biography of John D. Rockefeller fully explains a misunderstood man. Ron... | Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations Best Price: $8.36 Much has been said about the book's contents in previous reviews. What I would like to add is... | Honor Few, Fear None: The Life and Times of a Mongol Best Price: $14.38 I had read the book, "Under and Alone" years ago. This book is a GREAT look at the... | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir Best Price: $7.11 I have read several of Bryson's books, the most recent being his able essay on Shakespeare, but... |
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Istanbul: Memories and the City Best Price: $6.99 Istanbul: Memories and the City
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, like Samuel Peyps'... | My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me Best Price: $15.29 Listening to the author talk about the detainees in very flowing terms (she would even let them... | Drinking: A Love Story Best Price: $6.99 What a fantastic book. Not just about alcoholism but the human struggle to live in our own... | Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Best Price: $6.66 Richard Rodriguez reflects on his journey from the barrios of California to a seat in the... | Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas Best Price: $8.57 Klosterman's work reflects creativity and interesting insights into American culture. His major... |
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Night Best Price: $5.00 Wow...every page is like a sock in the gut, and like many memoirs full of twisted events, I find... | I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust Best Price: $2.00 The book shows plenty of emotions of their loved ones being lost. Livia wrote her memory into a... | Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation Best Price: $15.36 This is one of those incredibly rare books which is both thrilling to read and morally... | Mein Kampf Best Price: $15.01 Mein Kampf from a history lovers point of view, is a great read. However, if your not a fan of... | One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Best Price: $4.99 I hear references to this book all the time in the halls of my law school and on fellow... |
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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers Best Price: $8.86 Excellent book to read. I believe everyone will enjoy this and the story of this amazing person.... | The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series): An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics) Best Price: $1.86 This is one of the most violent books (an autobiography!) I ever read. It illustrates... | The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate Best Price: $16.98 I am still reading the book and I find it fascinating. I like the way James Rosen writes. | The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage Best Price: $14.00 One might have thought there would be little more to say about Abraham Lincoln, certainly not... | The Pact Best Price: $6.47 I picked up this book after my wife and I started a group reading with my son of the book;... |
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Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road Best Price: $12.26 First let me say that I am a big Rush fan. Peart is one of the best if not the best drummer in... | Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence Best Price: $11.72 I read it, my Dad read it in 2 days. Very practical, humorous.When my son, with Asperger's, gets... | The Liars' Club: A Memoir Best Price: $7.09 Mary Karr shhots from the hip, creating a superficial narrative that expounds a kind of... | Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) Best Price: $8.22 Was purchased due to a requirement by my childs school. He has informed me it is a good book. | Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Best Price: $15.00 Most people will read "Gandhi and Churchill" for the author's detailed study of how... |
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Murder of a Medici Princess Best Price: $14.96 This book is more than a story of Isabella's murder, in fact, very few pages are devoted to the... | Lost Boy: My Story Best Price: $13.45 Although this is an autobiography of a pastor, it is much more than that. It is a story of... | Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Best Price: $6.98 I had no choice when it came to reading this book. It was after all, required in my college... | Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner Best Price: $4.98 Dean is amazing! He writes is a relaxed, conversational manner that makes you feel like he's... | The Rose That Grew From Concrete Best Price: $6.70 This is a great book to futher understand 2pac and the foundation of all of his music but the... |
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Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) Best Price: $8.17 Steinbeck's Travels with Charley was his last book I believe. This is a memoir of John... | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) Best Price: $6.98 Absent the anti-Christian bias of his geological disaster books, Winchester writes a very good... | The Greatest Game Ever Played: A True Story Best Price: $5.49 This I believe was Frost's 1st golf history book and previously all his other work had been... | Hope's Boy: A Memoir Best Price: $12.90 Hope is our emotional gray area between love and hate -- neither a malignant nor a benign force,... | Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Best Price: $5.95 Few autobiographies have the luxury of encompassing such a fascinating topic as Richard Branson... |
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century Best Price: $14.44 As a fan of architecture, I was well aware of Stanford White (of McKim, Mead and White) before I... | My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir Best Price: $8.25 Where to begin with all the good things that I'd like to say about this book?
1. The prose is... | Making Government Work Best Price: $19.76 That's the title of the most practical "political" book you'll ever read. It is a... | I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie Best Price: $8.87 I last read this almost if not 20 years ago so I would be hard pressed to recall specific... | |