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Revolution
The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas

St. Martin's Griffin
Hailed as a “virtuosic one-woman show” (Time Out New York) this New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick tells the funny and poignant story of the year...
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A Box of Darkness
The Story of a Marriage

St. Martin's Griffin
In the tradition of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and...
  
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Running Away to Home
Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters

St. Martin's Press
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia “We can look at this in two ways,” Jim...
  
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Conversations with Myself

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record...
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Crazy Love

St. Martin's Griffin
At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: good looks, a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job in New York City. Plus a handsome, funny boyfriend who...
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Thin Is the New Happy

St. Martin's Griffin
You’ve heard the phrase “the mirror is not your friend.” For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than “not a friend.” It was the mean girl who stole...
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Sweet Mandarin
The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary...
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Apples and Oranges
My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

Picador
A TOP TEN FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR--MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR INCLUDES AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW...
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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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My Life as a Traitor
An Iranian Memoir

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
At the age of twenty, Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents...

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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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All But My Life
A Memoir

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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Running with Scissors
A Memoir

Picador
The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true...
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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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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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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier
Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

St. Martin's Griffin
The irresistible bestselling collection of essays about the real truths of Southern life.
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The Pianist
The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

Picador
Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody...
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Mockingbird
A Portrait of Harper Lee

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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A Great Improvisation
Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

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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Casting with a Fragile Thread
A Story of Sisters and Africa

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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Mississippi Sissy

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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Soldier's Heart
Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point

Picador
Includes a New Afterword by the Author A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A USA Today Best Book of 2007 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of...