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 The Lincolns: Portrait of a MarriageBest Price: $15.83 Well researched with excellent writing, Epstein catures the fascinating and complex relationship... |  Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing MemoirBest Price: $15.26 This morning at 4:30 I turned on the light to read a few more pages of Old Friend From Far Away.... |  The Education of Little TreeBest Price: $7.45 Nutshell review - Not withstanding the controversy surrounding the authenticity of the story and... |  The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal PerformanceBest Price: $8.94 "Invest in Loss" is probably the best line and best principle to take away from this... |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By HimselfBest Price: $3.92 It had some writing in it, but overall a good deal for the price. Thanks |
 Posthumous Keats: A Personal BiographyBest Price: $16.15 Stanley Plumly finds Keats companionable -- and so do I. Plumly is a distunguished poet, yet... |  The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made itBest Price: $8.83 Therefore, I'll average it out at 3. I greatly enjoyed this book up until the last two chapters.... |  Istanbul: Memories and the CityBest Price: $6.99 Istanbul: Memories and the City Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, like Samuel Peyps'... |  Autobiography of a Yogi: with bonus CDBest Price: $7.98 I rememeber this book in 1970 when I worked in a bookstore in Greenwich Village.It was popular... |  Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard RodriguezBest Price: $6.21 Richard Rodriguez reflects on his journey from the barrios of California to a seat in the... |
 The Hiding PlaceBest Price: $3.30 I will not go into detail on this very public site about what this author, and her book, mean to... |  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... |  WoodenBest Price: $7.50 I bought this book for my student/athlete son. I had him read the book and find five things that... |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $8.00 In the classic slave narrative genre, Frederick Douglass' narrative of his life brings to life,... |  I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years AwayBest Price: $3.49 Mr. Bryson's half-hearted curmudgeonly approach to life makes for another enjoyable read by this... |
 Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to CatholicismBest Price: $5.90 The book arrived quickly after ordering. The perspective the book provides is that of a... |  Marie Antoinette: The JourneyBest Price: $7.99 Wonderful book about the Queen of France. From her early days as the Arch Duchess of Austria,... |  Moose: A Memoir of Fat CampBest Price: $12.47 I read Stephanie's first book and loved it. Her writing style is/was exactly what I look for in... |  One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law SchoolBest Price: $4.99 I hear references to this book all the time in the halls of my law school and on fellow... |  Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for TherapistsBest Price: $35.17 The book was recommened for an into class in Psychopharmacology. I read through all of it! The... |
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 American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the CenturyBest Price: $14.44 As a fan of architecture, I was well aware of Stanford White (of McKim, Mead and White) before I... |  Amazing Gracie: A Dog's TaleBest Price: $6.20 This book is a really great tribute to Gracie. It also gives me tons of respect for these guys... |  A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)Best Price: $3.66 In the first 75 pages of this warm and fuzzy book, the following happens (and not much else): a... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $7.29 I have read several of Bryson's books, the most recent being his able essay on Shakespeare, but... |  FDRBest Price: $11.69 FDR was well-written and it did not seem like a chore to plod through like a lot of other... |
 Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of NationsBest 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 MongolBest Price: $14.38 Doc wrote a down to earth and well written book about one of the "baddest" of the... |  Making Government WorkBest Price: $19.76 That's the title of the most practical "political" book you'll ever read. It is a... |  The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)Best Price: $5.99 Absent the anti-Christian bias of his geological disaster books, Winchester writes a very good... |  My Grandfather's Son: A MemoirBest Price: $8.25 Where to begin with all the good things that I'd like to say about this book? 1. The prose is... |
 Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central HighBest Price: $5.35 Warrior's Don't Cry is about a young girl faced with challenges larger than life. At the age of... |  My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told MeBest Price: $15.55 Listening to the author talk about the detainees in very flowing terms (she would even let them... |  I'm with the Band: Confessions of a GroupieBest Price: $8.93 I last read this almost if not 20 years ago so I would be hard pressed to recall specific... | 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... | My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me Best Price: $15.55 Listening to the author talk about the detainees in very flowing terms (she would even let them... |
| I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie Best Price: $8.93 I last read this almost if not 20 years ago so I would be hard pressed to recall specific... |  Heaven's Calling: A Memoir of One Soul's Steep AscentBest Price: $13.59 Leanne Payne was called out of brokenness into union with Christ, and her nearly fifty-year... |  I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The HolocaustBest Price: $2.26 The book shows plenty of emotions of their loved ones being lost. Livia wrote her memory into a... |  Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeBest Price: $15.73 Most people will read "Gandhi and Churchill" for the author's detailed study of how... |  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkBest Price: $10.50 Robert Caro's The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, contains every attribute of a... |
 Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadBest Price: $12.28 i don't know what more i can say, book more than worth reading, if you love music, RUSH,... |  Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)Best Price: $7.90 Was purchased due to a requirement by my childs school. He has informed me it is a good book. |  The Liars' Club: A MemoirBest Price: $7.07 Mary Karr shhots from the hip, creating a superficial narrative that expounds a kind of... |  Lost Boy: My StoryBest Price: $13.49 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 RunnerBest Price: $5.50 This book is just as inspiring after reading it for the second time. Dean Karnazes shows the... |  Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia BossBest Price: $13.96 With the skill of a linguistic sculptor, Philip Carlo reveals a microscopic characterization of... |  War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on TerrorismBest Price: $17.01 Feith's book is largely an attempt to justify his actions and policies as #3 in the Pentagon... |  Teach With Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from The Freedom WritersBest Price: $7.31 Erin Gruwell is an amazing person. She was able to reach her tough students and make... |  Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery (Not Eligible for Ay)Best Price: $17.81 Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to... |
 The Almost Moon: A NovelBest Price: $2.98 Alice Sebold has written something very different from her previous, highly successful works. ... |  Mr. S: My Life with Frank SinatraBest Price: $2.78 This book reminds me of the movie Forrest Gump. The big difference is that this book is more... | |||
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