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 Darkness Visible: A Memoir of MadnessBest Price: $4.94 (This is from the recorded version, read by the author.) I have listened to this book several... |  The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of KnowledgeBest Price: $12.44 Jamie James has written a fascinating account of the life (and unfortunately, premature death)... |  Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My WayBest Price: $7.90 Few autobiographies have the luxury of encompassing such a fascinating topic as Richard Branson... |  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeBest Price: $7.36 A short but well written book that sheds light on an almost forgotten man who changed the world.... |  Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Best Price: $10.57 This exhaustive biography of John D. Rockefeller fully explains a misunderstood man. Ron... |
 Center Cannot Hold, The: My Journey Through MadnessBest Price: $8.86 No review is going to do justice to this incredible book by Elyn Saks, an academic dean, tenured... |  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... |  Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in IraqBest Price: $12.47 Don't let the idiotic and juvenile book cover fool you. This ia very good and interesting book. |  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... |  Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)Best Price: $6.98 I picked this book up at the library because another I wanted wasn't available. What a break! I... |
 Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)Best Price: $8.78 Kapuscinski reports on the people and political culture of the third and fourth worlds( the... |  Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveBest Price: $2.62 I had expected a fictionalized narrative following the daughter of the famous astronomer. What I... |  Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)Best Price: $7.89 Was purchased due to a requirement by my childs school. He has informed me it is a good book. |  Teach With Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from The Freedom WritersBest Price: $7.26 Erin Gruwell is an amazing person. She was able to reach her tough students and make... |  There Are No ShortcutsBest Price: $7.99 As a teacher, I highly reccomend Rafe's first book. His life story is truly inspiring and... |
 The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldBest Price: $4.49 Totally do not waste your time on this book. It is insulting to the reader it is so badly... |  The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of EnronBest Price: $5.49 Very well researched account of the rise and downfall of Enron. It chronicles the start and the... |  Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in DisguiseBest Price: $4.00 I was very disappointed in this audio CD book. First of all, something about this book seems... |  The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern FinanceBest Price: $11.99 Ron Chernow is one terrific writer. Hard to put down his books, including the biography of... |  My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaBest Price: $4.64 Even though this is a very short book and only deals with the first half of Tesla's life, it... |
 Teacher Man: A MemoirBest Price: $1.75 I don't believe there can be much more to be said about the Charms of Frank McCourt. Even when... |  Sam Walton: Made In AmericaBest Price: $3.99 Sam Walton was one of the worst things to happen to America. It's a monopoly. It destroys... |  Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous IdeasBest Price: $8.57 Though I find most essay compilations disjointed and wildly varying in quality between the... |  21: Bringing Down the House - Movie Tie-In: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for MillionsBest Price: $4.54 I liked the story behind what these kids did. It was exciting and scandolous. I didn't like... |  To Teach: The Journey of a TeacherBest Price: $12.00 This book gave me hope for those mired in the public school system. It brought to mind another... |
 'Tis: A MemoirBest Price: $0.50 Oh my word. I don't know what most reviewers are talking about. Tis is a true gift to readers... |  Trump: The Art of the DealBest Price: $4.01 The Art of the deal is the only book written by Trump that I recommend; however, I rate this as... |  My Family and Other AnimalsBest Price: $6.85 All of Gerald Durell's writings are terrific, but the ones about his family are truly... |  Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant BusinessmanBest Price: $8.95 Yvon Chouinard began his foray into business as a way to create a product for himself and his... |  Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of BrothersBest Price: $5.65 This is a good biography, but it had very little in regards to the "Band of Brothers".... |
 Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a TimeBest Price: $6.96 This book is honest and bittersweet. He goes on just enough tangents to satiate curiosity... |  Ava's ManBest Price: $6.25 Ava's man was Bragg's maternal grandfather who passed away before Rick was born into poverty. ... |  Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed KillsBest Price: $8.46 This is a superb biography of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper, from his enlistment to... |  If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me HomeBest Price: $7.00 Tim O'Brien fan and have not read this book? You will not be disappointed. Never read O'Brien?... |  A Piece of Cake: A MemoirBest Price: $8.00 This book is shocking, entertaining, inspiring, and absolutely wonderful. I'm so glad Cupcake... |
 Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage)Best Price: $7.59 I just finished Final Exam. Three weeks ago, we marked the fourth anniversary of my son's... |  A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the BaboonsBest Price: $8.00 This book is hard to classify: Is it autobiography? Primatolgy? Travel adventures? Humanist... |  The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional HealingBest Price: $7.99 Lori Arviso Alvord walks in two worlds. Raised on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico --... |  La última lección + DVDBest Price: $13.47 Este libro ya merece un espacio adicional entre los libros de motivación y autoayuda y su... |  The Story of Science: Newton at the CenterBest Price: $16.97 Our high school children found this to be a great adjunct for their science education. It's... |
 Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale Library of Military History)Best Price: $18.48 This compelling book presents an unparalleled record of what happened after U.S. forces seized... |  The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIBest Price: $7.50 "The Good War" - Studs Turkel's 5th oral history - was published in 1984. Like most... |  Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and SurvivalBest Price: $4.26 This book is fantastic! I purchased it and read the entire book within 72 hours. His... |  Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in AmericaBest Price: $7.00 I read this book while a passenger on a drive to Florida. It was so compelling that I found... |  House to House: A Soldier's MemoirBest Price: $3.45 Best read this year. I could not put the book down. It is a war memoir not a literary masterpiece. |
 Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick WintersBest Price: $3.95 A wonderful companion to the HBO "Band of Brothers" miniseries. The book fills in... |  The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot SoldierBest Price: $6.28 After reading a brief biography of Napoleon, I picked this book to get acquainted with the tough... |  Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las VegasBest Price: $14.61 I'm sure I'll see Las Vegas in a different light after reading this book. You can't help but be... |  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerBest Price: $8.49 This is an excellent biography of Oppenheimer.While it seems likely the authors started out... |  What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $5.00 Not quite as funny as "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman", but just as touching. A... |
 Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul FarmerBest Price: $12.74 One of the best works of nonfiction we have ever read and a truly inspiring story of what genius... |  Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind ThemBest Price: $15.70 For anyone with an interest in astronomy, astrophysics, or just a passing interest in modern... |  Survival In AuschwitzBest Price: $12.37 Primo Levi was an Italian Jew arrested for anti-Fascist resistance in 1944 and sent to the camps... |  The Forgotten SoldierBest Price: $12.77 The wind sucks the breath out of my mouth, even though covered. Ice crystals form on the outer... |  Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the TopBest Price: $14.07 Like a man who likes to go on and on with "fascinating" stories about himself, the... |
 The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest AdventuresBest Price: $13.20 Having been blessed to be a crewman in US Nautilus on all three of her Arctic cruises, one in... | ||||
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