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1	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir more books like this by Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. see all copies from $4.44! new only from $4.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou 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
4	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L Hopp 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 $8.69! new only from $8.69! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxfo more books like this by Simon Winchester The fascinating true story about the relationship between the man who compiled the first Oxford English Dictionary and his major collaborator, an imprisoned murderer. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Moveable Feast more books like this by 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
7	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 $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Running with Scissors: A Memoir more books like this by Augusten Burroughs (Read by) 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Disgrace more books like this by J M Coetzee In South Africa after apartheid, a middle-aged professor of Romantic poetry sees his career crumble as the world turns more to technology than to literature. After a series of ever more degrading misadventures, including a charge of sexual harassment, he ends up on his daughter's farm. There, after further disgraces--his daughter is raped and he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	All Over But the Shoutin more books like this by Rick Bragg 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 $3.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life more books like this by Anne Lamott From the writer of the best-selling OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS comes this timely tract on the art of writing--an anecdotal, frank step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage a writer's life. Offers advice on getting started, character, plot, dialogue, writer's block, writing groups, publication, and more. see all copies from $2.32! new only from $7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness more books like this by William Styron 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 $5.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Boy Tales of Childhood more books like this by Roald Dahl The autobiography, up to age 20, of the author of such books as CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. The book is divided into four parts, each corresponding with the years he spent at four different schools. Readers will be able to see how Dahl's school experiences, which often involve bullying unpleasant teachers, are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life more books like this by C S Lewis 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 $4.23! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Lincoln more books like this by David Herbert Donald The phenomenal national bestseller that is "the Lincoln biography for this generation" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)--now in paperback. Drawing on resources not available until recently--including Lincoln's personal papers, archives, and newspaper reports--two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald presents a masterful account of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana more books like this by Haven Kimmel Kimmel, aka "Zippy" because of her propensity as a toddler to race around like a monkey, shares the details of her quirky childhood in the Midwest, where the cast of family characters includes her beauty-queen sister, deeply religious brother, wise mother, and gambling father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Tis: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt 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
18 view cover	Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith more books like this by Anne Lamott In "Grace (Eventually)," the bestselling author of "Traveling Mercies" and "Plan B" delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as she comes to discover what it means to be fully alive. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	On writing 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 $2.92! new only from $3.78! \| first editions
20 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 Expanding on his August 2002 "New Yorker" article, Bill Buford now offers a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the small, chaotic, highest-standards kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo, and of his apprenticeships with Batali's former teachers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Dry more books like this by Augusten Burroughs Augusten Burroughs, the writer who memorialized his traumatic childhood in RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, returns to do the same with his alcoholism, which he tries to deal with by checking himself into a gay rehab clinic in Minnesota. Burroughs's memoir is a humorous account of that experience, and of his lifelong struggles with (and love for) the bottle. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $5.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America more books like this by Nathan McCall An eloquent memoir, by a "Washington Post" reporter, that tells of his passage from the prison yards and streets to one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Homage to Catalonia more books like this by George Orwell In 1936 George Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War. Instead he joined the militia of the P.O.U.M. - Party of Marxist Unification - to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, Orwell describes the bleak and comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Running with Scissors more books like this by Augusten Burroughs A #1 "New York Times" bestseller--the true story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist--Burroughs's memoir is now a feature film from TriStar Pictures, scheduled for release in September and starring Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Joseph Fiennes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson 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 $5.88! \| first editions \| SVS

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