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All But My Life

A Memoir

Gerda Weissmann Klein 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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The Monks of Tibhirine

Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria

John W. Kiser St. Martin's Griffin

The inspiration for the major motion picture "Of Gods and Men" In the spring of l996 armed men broke into a Trappist monastery in war-torn Algeria and...

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The Girl from Purple Mountain

Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America

May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

A family memoir set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: the Chai family matriarch, Ruth...

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If Nights Could Talk

A Family Memoir

Marsha Recknagel St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

If Nights Could Talk is a rich gothic story of a Southern family, a tale of wealth and emotional need that spans generations. Marsha Recknagel's memoir begins...

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Mosaic

A Chronicle of Five Generations

Diane Armstrong St. Martin's Griffin

Starting in Krakow, Poland in 1890, and spanning more than one hundred years, five generations, and four continents, Mosaic is Diane Armstrong's moving account...

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Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine

Noelle Howey Picador

Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father’s...

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ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book - Nonfiction
Lambda Literary Awards - Winner - Transgender

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Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan

The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Melody Ermachild Chavis; Foreword by Alice Walker St. Martin's Griffin

The unforgettable story of how one woman dared to start a revolution. Meena founded RAWA in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was...

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll

The Search for Dare Wright

Jean Nathan Picador

In 1957, a children’s book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it...

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The Weight of It

A Story of Two Sisters

Amy Wilensky Holt Paperbacks

A "candid, funny, and altogether un-putdownable" (Glamour) memoir about the bond between two sisters—and the 150 pounds that nearly separated them As...

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Dry

A Memoir

Augusten Burroughs 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 Great Improvisation

Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

Stacy Schiff Holt Paperbacks

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December...

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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier

Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

Celia Rivenbark St. Martin's Griffin

The irresistible bestselling collection of essays about the real truths of Southern life.

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SIBA Book Award - Winner - Nonfiction

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Mississippi Sissy

Kevin Sessums Picador

Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs...

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Lambda Literary Awards - Winner

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Magical Thinking

True Stories

Augusten Burroughs 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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Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Honor Book - Adult Nonfiction
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Humor

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Mockingbird

A Portrait of Harper Lee

Charles J. Shields Holt Paperbacks

"A fine, well-rounded portrait of Harper Lee. Mockingbird is good reading."—Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century's most...

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Quill Award - Nominee - Biography/Memoir

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Too Late to Die Young

Nearly True Tales from a Life

Harriet McBryde Johnson Picador

A Washington Post Book World Rave Harriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends...

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Casting with a Fragile Thread

A Story of Sisters and Africa

Wendy Kann Picador

One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in...

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Sweet and Low

A Family Story

Rich Cohen Picador

Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later...

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Money, A Memoir

Women, Emotions, and Cash

Liz Perle Picador

Women learn the lesson early: Coveting money is greedy. Hustling for it is unladylike. Talking about it is crass. And so they develop a quiet contract:...

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Ace of Spades

A Memoir

David Matthews Picador

A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are David Matthews was born on the line between races. His mother was white, but she...

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Night

Elie Wiesel; A New Translation by Marion Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author 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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The Coldest Winter

A Stringer in Liberated Europe

Paula Fox Picador

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Book World Critic's Choice of the...

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Falling Through the Earth

A Memoir

Danielle Trussoni Picador

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun...

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Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs 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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