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 Into the WildBest Price: $7.05 After Chris McCandless starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness, many Alaskan oldtimers... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $8.16 My primary motivation for buying this book is that I, like the author, grew up in Des Moines in... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $7.45 Don't buy it unless you were born in Iowa in the 50s and 60s. Otherwise, you won't understand a... |  A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)Best Price: $2.22 This is the story of Zippy, an imaginative, precocious girl who grew up in the small town of... |  All over but the Shoutin'Best Price: $2.45 I read this book after loving AVA'S MAN. I was less enthralled with ALL OVER, which was written... |
 Little Britches: Father and I Were RanchersBest Price: $6.75 This is a wonderful look into how life was... I found myself thinking about the work load on... |  'Tis: A MemoirBest Price: $0.69 Many reviewers have noted that the first two-thirds of this book is strong, while the final... |  A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished WomanBest Price: $2.50 Very interesting journey and the following books written by Joan Anderson expand on her experiences. |  Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas (Clifton & Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage)Best Price: $17.17 Renowned for his fierce devotion to the people of Texas—as well as his equally fierce... |  This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western MindBest Price: $1.66 Of the three best books I've read in 2007, this probably ranks number two. It took me a little... |
 If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town AlaskaBest Price: $1.94 I lived for several years in Alaska and my wife thought I would enjoy this book, which she got... |  Wait Till Next Year: A MemoirBest Price: $1.61 Doris Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize winning author. She is a democrat and mostly she writes about... |  Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan WildsBest Price: $8.91 UNBELIEVABLE EFFORT! I BOUGHT THIS BOOK BECAUSE THE COUPLE WAS FROM LONGMONT, COLORADO AND... |  Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (Vintage)Best Price: $8.44 A selection of beautifully written essays on life in New York as a father, husband, and observer... |  Man of the FamilyBest Price: $5.00 Highly recommended series. I recommend as an alternative to the Little House series for boys. ... |
 Dakota: A Spiritual GeographyBest Price: $6.25 I had been meaning to read this book for years. After finally doing so, and then skimming... |  Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A MemoirBest Price: $7.89 I can tell you that this author has embellished little. I avoid four letter words in my books... |  The Jew StoreBest Price: $3.50 The Jew Store was both charming and telling. The author was insightful, but always kind and her... |  How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleBest Price: $1.90 OK - I really enjoyed this book. At its best Toby Young's "How to Lose Friends &... |  The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic WildernessBest Price: $4.94 There are not very many people I would like to meet, but Heimo and his family are at the top of... |
 Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life (South Dakota Biography)Best Price: $7.37 I can hardly say enough good things about this book. It's exactly the sort of Laura Ingalls... |  Ava's ManBest Price: $2.32 I've never much cottoned to white male Southern writers, not even to Mr. Faulkner. They too... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $17.25 As always, Bryson is informative (the Thunderbolt Kid is really an excellent history of the... |  Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and WhiteBest Price: $11.85 The irony is that I had known the parents of Tom Sancton since 1972 (his mother, Seta, and I... |  The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers MovementBest Price: $5.57 At a time when the Mexican-US border is rife with contention, one needs some inspiration for... |
 Where I Was FromBest Price: $4.89 "A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up." This... |  Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little RockBest Price: $2.98 Excellent book. So hard to read though - people can be horrible. I hope we have come a long... |  See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten AmericaBest Price: $10.90 It is difficult to write humor effectively, and Ward had me laughing out loud more than once. ... |  Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a FarmBest Price: $6.07 I heard about this book some time ago and finally ordered it. Once I began reading it, I just... |  Two in the Far NorthBest Price: $8.43 I'd heard Margaret (Mardy) Murie's name in the same news and conversational circles as I'd hear... |
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 Where Rivers Change DirectionBest Price: $2.49 These are two feelings I got from reading this memoir. Life in NW Wyoming is not easy. Days... |  Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic TownBest Price: $16.47 Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted... |  Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas DroverBest Price: $7.63 Ralph Moody's books are a national treasure demonstrating life at the end of an era while... |  Homestead: Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of PossibilityBest Price: $1.96 Jane Kirkpatrick does not abandon her characteristic figures of speech and writing that touches... |  Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the CountercultureBest Price: $14.81 A friend at work loaned me her copy of this book. She lived in La Veta and knew, or had met... |
 Brooklyn Was MineBest Price: $2.54 I don't have great Brooklyn credentials. Even though I was born there, my parents moved me out... |  My Awakening: A Path to Racial UnderstandingBest Price: $85.75 MY AWAKENING is a captivating book that exemplifies how a student is to do a research [theme]... |  Wild Steps of HeavenBest Price: $7.88 It was a used book but was in good shape. the book was send really fast. |  The Reaper's Line: Life and Death on the Mexican BorderBest Price: $15.44 This book enlightened me on all the stories my family told me of thier views and knowledge of... |  Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas WildcatterBest Price: $15.37 Clayton Williams has let Mike Cochran tell all in this interesting, humorous and sometimes sad... |
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 The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)Best Price: $12.21 I am a student of Brandon's at the University of Idaho and after the essays of Brandon's that... |  The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest AdventuresBest Price: $3.99 I read "Muir Nature Writings" before reading "Wild Muir". I think having an... |  The Coalwood WayBest Price: $3.95 Dr. Werner von Braun once said, "Matters of faith are not really accessible to our rational... |  All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $2.44 I usually try to read all books that I get a hold of that are memoir..but this one I read about... |  Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon : Dark History of the Murderous Cattle DetectiveBest Price: $12.25 Introduced to the epic of Tom Horn by the excellent western movie starring Steve McQueen, I... |
 Rat Bastards: The South Boston Irish Mobster Who Took the Rap When Everyone Else RanBest Price: $2.58 John "Red" Shea spends his life making sure he is a "man." To him, this... |  Set Up Running: The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904-1949Best Price: $15.59 As I read this book I could almost feel the track clicking below the engine, hear the chuffing... | |||
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