My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
 Poetic Journey: My Invented Country is Isabel Allende's best book yet. This amazing biography takes the reader on a poetic journey though Ms. Allende's young life. Her writing is stellar and poetic. This book is to be savored for its beauty of language. [... more]
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Amazon.com Review: Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969. What makes this memoir especially fascinating is that Armstrong already wrote about this [... more]
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Cherry
Amazon.com Review: As a girl idling her way through long, toxically boring summer afternoons in Leechfield, Texas, Mary Karr dreamed up an unusual career for herself, "to write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography." She has since done [... more]
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Amazon.com Review: In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, [... more]
$18.00
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Travels with Charley (Classics on Cassette)
can't get much better than a Steinbeck: Steinbeck's Travels with Charley was his last book I believe. This is a memoir of John Steinbeck's drive from Long Island, New York to the tip of Maine to California and back to Long Island. Of course it's well [... more]
$34.95
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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
Great Read!!!: I've always been fascinated by E. Lynn Harris' fictional work (and maybe a bit frightened since he's been writing about down-low relationships before the term was popular). What becomes of the Broken Hearted was a wonderful read. I was so [... more]
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American ...
Amazon.com Review: In his earlier books, TV news anchor Tom Brokaw has leaned heavily on the experiences of others to remember and define what he calls "the Greatest Generation"--those who came of age during World War II and its aftermath. In A [... more]
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to ...
Amazon.com Review: In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, often emerges as a major contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and humorously, but between every line of [... more]
$25.95
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Tis Unabridged: A Memoir
Amazon.com Review: 'Tis a blessing that the author narrates his own work. McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York. Like all good [... more]
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Tis: A Memoir
Amazon.com Review: 'Tis a blessing that the author narrates his own work. McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York. Like all good [... more]
$26.00
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Angela's Ashes
Amazon.com Review: Frank McCourt's haunting memoir takes on new life when the author reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Recounting scenes from his childhood in New York City and Limerick, Ireland, McCourt paints a brutal yet poignant picture of [... more]
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Professor and The Madman, The
Amazon.com Review: The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American [... more]
$29.95
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