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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	First Cut A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab Albert Howard Carter III Picador With humor, compassion, and wisdom, Howard Carter recounts the semester he spent watching first-year medical students in a human anatomy lab. From the...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Empty Mirror Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery Janwillem van de Wetering St. Martin's Griffin A small and admiral memoir that records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Cleaving The Story of a Marriage Dennis and Vicki Covington North Point Press "Marriage is like a rain forest," Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. "The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Morning, Noon and Night Spalding Gray Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A hilarious monologue about fatherhood by a unique comic voice In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Afterzen Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear Janwillem van de Wetering St. Martin's Griffin In Afterzen, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Triangle. Van de Wetering...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	My Garden (Book) Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the...

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Arctic Homestead

The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

Norma Cobb and Charles W. Sasser St. Martin's Griffin

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up...

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Dances with Luigi

A Grandson's Search for His Italian Roots

Paul Paolicelli St. Martin's Griffin

In this spirited memoir, veteran TV journalist Paul Paolicelli does what many of us can only dream of--he picks up and moves to a foreign country in an attempt...

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Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Not Entitled A Memoir Frank Kermode Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks From a great critic of english literature, a different kind of text: a luminous account of his own life. Throughout this uniquely personal work, Frank Kermode...

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My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother Devon Drew's life is also the story of her family on the island of...

National Book Awards - Nominee - Nonfiction

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	West with the Night Beryl Markham North Point Press West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

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Blue Windows

A Christian Science Childhood

Barbara Wilson Picador

From Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christian Science, to Deepak Chopra, Americans have struggled with the connection between health and...

Lambda Literary Awards - Winner - Lesbian Biography

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	And when did you last see your father? A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss Blake Morrison Picador Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent And when did you last see your father? Was it...

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James Herriot's Animal Stories

James Herriot St. Martin's Press

When you enter the world of James Herriot's Animal Stories, you’ll share his wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he contends with pet owners...

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Every Living Thing

James Herriot St. Martin's Paperbacks

Celebrate the return of the most beloved storyteller of our time! The waiting is finally over. For the first time in over a decade, the world's favorite...

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All Things Bright and Beautiful

James Herriot St. Martin's Paperbacks

The world's most beloved animal doctor delightfully continues where he left off in All Creatures Great and Small with new adventures through the Yorkshire...

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Hardcover : $27.50 Buy	Six Exceptional Women Further Memoirs James Lord Farrar, Straus and Giroux James Lord continues his series of intimate portraits with a cast of female subjects: Alice B. Toklas, Getrude Stein, Marie-Laure de Noailles, the French...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Road Song Natalie Kusz Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Meadow James Galvin Holt Paperbacks An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...

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Hand to Mouth

A Chronicle of Early Failure

Paul Auster Picador

Paul Auster’s Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be...

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An Execution in the Family

One Son's Journey

Robert Meeropol, Son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg St. Martin's Griffin

An Execution in the Family details Robert Meeropol's political odyssey from Rosenberg son to political activist in his own right, and chronicles a very...

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It's a Long Way from Penny Apples

Bill Cullen Forge Books

Tis better to be born lucky than rich.... There are many ways to confront tragedy and hard times. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's tragic--and ultimately...

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On the Wild Edge

In Search of a Natural Life

David Petersen; Introduction by John Nichols A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Opinionated and iconoclastic, Petersen writes with humor and a well-honed craft that will delight fans of Edward Abbey.” —Library Journal (starred review) ...

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Drinking the Rain

A Memoir

Alix Kates Shulman North Point Press

At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman left a city life dense with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to stay alone in a small cabin on an...

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