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1	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L Hopp add to wishlist In her first full-length nonfiction narrative, bestselling author Kingsolver opens readers' eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: you are what you eat. The bestselling author returns with a wise and compelling celebration of family, food, nature, and community. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books more books like this by Azar Nafisi add to wishlist Azar Nafasi formed a book club in Tehran comprised of seven young women who got together to discuss such books as THE GREAT GATSBY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DAISY MILLER, and, of course, LOLITA--books forbidden by the Islamic government. In this memoir, Nafasi, who was expelled from the country for refusing to wear the veil, writes about those women, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft more books like this by Stephen King (Read by) add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Year of Magical Thinking more books like this by Joan Didion add to wishlist 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
5	Naked more books like this by D Sedaris add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $4.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Running with Scissors: A Memoir more books like this by Augusten Burroughs add to wishlist When his dysfunctional family sent Augusten Burroughs away to be raised in the home of his mother's therapist, he became part of an even more dysfunctional and unusual family dynamic. In this bestseller, which has become a classic of the wackier side of memoir literature, Burroughs doesn't flinch at any grotesquerie or atrocity, recording it all- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Three Weeks with My Brother more books like this by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks add to wishlist When the Sparks brothers--bestselling writer Nicholas and his older brother Micah--set off on a trip around the world, they saw it as an opportunity not only to see temples and ruins but to talk about their childhood and the fate of their family, in a fraternal bonding experience that would enlarge both their lives. As they traveled, they also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Teacher Man: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt add to wishlist Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA'S ASHES and 'TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual destination--the rarefied halls of the elite Stuyvesant School. Throughout, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness more books like this by William Styron add to wishlist The novelist William Styron realized during the summer of 1984, when he was 60 years old, that the joylessness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts he had been experiencing were not simply part of an episode of harmless melancholy, but the marks of a severe and terrifying depression (he calls it "madness") that had become debilitating. As he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	All Over But the Shoutin more books like this by Rick Bragg add to wishlist A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's account of making his way in the world, from a humble beginning in poverty-stricken rural Alabama to international fame as a "New York Times" reporter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Kiss more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist One of today's best young American writers transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers more books like this by Harry Bernstein add to wishlist The enchanting true story of a love affair that broke down the walls that divided a neighborhood. Bernstein has written a wonderfully charming and moving tale of working class life, social divide, and forbidden love on the eve of the First World War. see all copies from $3.10! new only from $6.65! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson add to wishlist Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany more books like this by Bill Buford add to wishlist From Bill Buford, one of our most interesting literary figures--eight years as fiction editor at "The New Yorker"--comes a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. A marvelous hybrid, "Heat" offers a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure as well as an illuminating exploration of why food ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness more books like this by Karen Armstrong add to wishlist Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent (which she described in a previous memoir) and, when she left, was at a loss as to what to do with her life. In THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, she writes about her difficulties, as she first picked up a couple of advanced degrees, then taught in a private school, a job she eventually lost--after which she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. more books like this by Primo Levi add to wishlist Originally entitled, IF THIS IS A MAN, Levi's narrative of his experiences at Auschwitz is unique among Holocaust memoirs for its simplicity, its lack of self-pity, and its objectivity; he often emphasizes not his own sufferings but the many instances of goodness he found among his fellow prisoners. In an appendix, Levi stated: "[I]n writing this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.84! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Tale of Love and Darkness more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator) add to wishlist Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Teacher Man more books like this by Frank McCourt add to wishlist Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life more books like this by C S Lewis add to wishlist C.S. Lewis documents his search for joy, starting with his childhood in Belfast, through a period of atheism, and then back to Christianity through a course of rational thought. This book was initially published in 1955. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Magical Thinking: True Stories more books like this by Augusten Burroughs add to wishlist Augusten Burroughs continues his series of memoirs with this wild collection of stories. Here Burroughs confesses to various outrageous thoughts, including his desire to murder his cleaning lady and an obsession with becoming a transsexual. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	John Adams more books like this by David McCullough add to wishlist His first book since Truman, from one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers. Destined for the same kind of sweeping success as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman, John Adams is a powerful, deeply moving biography that reads like an epic historical novel. Breathing fresh life into American history, it takes as its subject the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Edith Wharton more books like this by Hermione Lee add to wishlist The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanished age but a fiercely modern woman, writing ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $8.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World more books like this by Sarah Vowell add to wishlist Daughter of a Montana gunsmith and closet Don Corleone disciple ("'The Godfather' is a film crammed with rules for living"), Sarah Vowell has written a delightful series of autobiographical stories which stretch across the immense landscape of the American scene. Tackling a diverse range of subjects, from politics and religion to the forgotten ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.13! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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