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The Silverado Squatters
A Sojourn in Napa County, California, in the Summer of 1880

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Memoir of Treaure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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To Tell the Truth Freely
The Life of Ida B. Wells

Hill and Wang
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise...
  
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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created "Alice in Wonderland"

St. Martin's Press
A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton’s all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self...
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Hiding Man
A Biography of Donald Barthelme

Picador
A compellingly told and enthusiastic biography—makes a page-turner of Barthelme’s passionate search for a place in American letters
  
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I'm Staying with My Boys
The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC

St. Martin's Griffin
I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off 3,000...
  
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War Child
A Child Soldier's Story

St. Martin's Griffin
In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy living in a small village. But after his mother was killed and his father Simon rose to become...
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St. Patrick
The Life and World of Ireland's Saint

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
St. Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to...
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The Thin Black Line
True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America's Meanest Streets

Forge Books
Meet the black men and women policing our meanest streets... LaVerne Dunlap: she infiltrated a drug gang and testified against them in court ... only to have...
  
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims

Forge Books
Kevin O’Hara’s journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot—and with a...
  
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The Raven's Gift
A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness

St. Martin's Press
Noted scientist and kayak adventurer undertakes a journey of spiritual healing Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific...
  

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Night

Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Sarah Crichton Books
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean,...
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My Life Outside the Ring

St. Martin's Press
Hulk Hogan, born Terry Bollea, burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late seventies and went on to become a world wrestling champion many times...
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All But My Life

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...
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Growing Up bin Laden
Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

St. Martin's Press
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A Wolf at the Table
A Memoir of My Father

Picador
Nominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year “As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried...
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Dry
A Memoir

Picador
From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry—the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not...
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A Gambling Man
Charles II's Restoration Game

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and...
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Step Out on Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges

St. Martin's Press
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing...
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Possible Side Effects

Picador
National Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of...
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Magical Thinking
True Stories

Picador
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True...
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The Talented Miss Highsmith
The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

St. Martin's Press
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal,"...
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A God Who Hates
The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam

St. Martin's Press
From the front page of The New York Times to YouTube, Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time, she tells her...
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Running with Scissors
A Memoir

St. Martin's Paperbacks
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist...