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1	The Glass Castle: A Memoir more books like this by Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls's memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As the two of them dragged the family around the country on the run from creditors and from one bad idea ... see all copies from $3.96! new only from $8.51! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal more books like this by Eric Schlosser To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Big Russ & Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life more books like this by Tim Russert (Read by) Journalist Tim Russert looks back at his childhood in Buffalo, NY, in the 1950s. Raised a Catholic by parents who taught him a combination of moral values and common sense, Russert grew up in a world with marked differences from today's, and he describes it with affection, eloquence, and humor. In particular, he concentrates on his father, Tim, Sr ... see all copies from $7.41! new only from $7.41! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present more books like this by Howard Zinn, Ph.D. THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES presents what has come to be called "history from the bottom up," as it tells America's national narrative in a way that is inclusive of those previously left out of, or marginalized by, standard histories. The book reveals that it was the Arawak Indians who were present at the first contact with Columbus. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius more books like this by Dave Eggers The literary bestseller that redefines both family and narrative for the 21st century, this moving memoir is the story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Mein Kampf more books like this by Adolf Hitler Hitler outlines a program of blood and terror in this self-revealing classic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft more books like this by Stephen King In this combination memoir and writing guide, best-selling author Stephen King tells of how he came to be a writer and, in the process, explores many aspects of writing, from plot construction through some of the nuts and bolts of getting a book published. Much of his advice is quite traditional: find a quiet place to work, concentrate on ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Memoirs of a Geisha more books like this by Arthur Golden In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of a kindly mentor and despite the malice of a rival; and of how Sayuri struggled to balance ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Power of One more books like this by Bryce Courtenay "Episodic and bursting with incident, this sprawling memoir of an English boy's lonely childhood in South Africa during WW II pays moderate attention to questions of race but concerns itself primarily with epic melodrama."--"Publishers Weekly." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.23! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Naked more books like this by David Sedaris Through a series of comic anecdotes, quirky essayist David Sedaris touches on the highlights of his life to date, including his cross-country hitchhiking trip; his discovery of Shakespeare in rural North Carolina; his various odd jobs as a migrant fruit picker, a jade polisher, and a woodwork refinisher; a family Christmas Eve spent with a ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $8.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Seabiscuit: An American Legend more books like this by Laura Hillenbrand Laura Hillenbrand, an award-winning racing journalist, delivers an in-depth, winning biography of a horse, detailing the lives of three men: Tom Smith, a silent, eccentric trainer; Charles Howard, a wealthy horseowner; and Red Pollard, a half-blind, down-on-his-luck jockey, whose combined talents produced an unlikely champion. The struggles of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Year of Magical Thinking more books like this by Joan Didion In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the course of her mourning period, she also gained crucial insights ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Greatest Generation more books like this by Tom Brokaw Accompanying an NBC television special, this title features the American men and women who were born in the 1920s, experienced the unique circumstances of a World War, and went on to become the parents of the "baby boomers." Award-winning anchorman Brokaw has reported on many of the world's major news events since he began his career with NBC News ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Tis: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt (Read by) Arriving in the United States as a poor, fairly uneducated young man, Frank McCourt became an accomplished English teacher and author. This is the story of his incredible transformation, a follow-up memoir to the Pulitzer Prize-winning ANGELA'S ASHES. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Flags of Our Fathers more books like this by James Bradley The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is told through the lives of six young men pictured in the famous news photo of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi. Hailing from different parts of the United States, these young men can be seen as representative of the generation that grew up in the '30s and went off to fight in the '40s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Einstein: His Life and Universe more books like this by Walter Isaacson From Isaacson, the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin," comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of a premier icon of his era. see all copies from $4.58! new only from $10.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou (Read by) In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Truman more books like this by David McCullough (Read by) Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Remains of the Day more books like this by Kazuo Ishiguro A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler, who, at the end of his career in postwar England, reviews his life and secretly questions the "greatness" of the nobleman he served. This Booker Prize-winning novel is now a Merchant-Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band more books like this by Motley Crue, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil Gripping and compulsively readable, Motley Crue's entry in the tell-all autobiographical stakes is a tour de force of a genre that had its genesis in books like S.T.P., Robert Greenfield's memoir of life on the road with the Rolling Stones, and Stephen Davis's classic Led Zeppelin saga HAMMER OF THE GODS. THE DIRT transports us from the band's ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Autobiography of Malcolm X more books like this by Malcolm X Malcolm X was a controversial figure in the early sixties as one of the most forceful and eloquent spokesmen for African-Americans. In his writings and public appearances he addressed the issues of Black pride, separatism (a position he eventually renounced), and self-esteem. In the years prior to his assassination in 1965, he granted Alex Haley, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	A Breath of Snow and Ashes more books like this by Diana Gabaldon In the sixth installment of the blockbuster time-traveling romantic saga known as the Outlander series, Scotsman Jamie Fraser attempts to cheat fate as the American Revolution approaches. In 1772, as unrest grows in the 13 colonies, the governor of North Carolina asks Jamie to secure the colony for the British. Thanks to his 20th-century American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Moveable Feast more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the twenties with moving, and sometimes caustic, portraits of friends like Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein along with fascinating reflections on his own development as a young writer. This posthumous volume was compiled from old manuscripts found at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and is, according to some critics, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Stones from the River more books like this by Ursula Hegi A German dwarf named Trudi--the product of an adulterous affair--is the narrator of this story that explores the workings of guilt and hatred. The town she lives in, and whose secrets she recounts, is a microcosm of Germany itself both before and after World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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