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1	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
2	The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier more books like this by Thad Carhart add to wishlist In expatriate Thad Carhart's fascinating memoir, he gets to know a man who repairs and sells pianos and becomes a regular at his small, eccentric shop in Paris. Then Carhart, an amateur pianist in his youth, buys a piano himself, begins taking lessons, and finds his life transformed by music, friendship, and the ineffably lovable French-ness of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
3	Year in Provence more books like this by Peter Mayle add to wishlist Mayle's humorous true story of his attempts to make a home for himself in the south of France after he fled his advertising job in England. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir more books like this by Mary Higgins Clark add to wishlist In a charming, bittersweet memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, America's Queen of Suspense shares her recollections of her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in a colorful assortment of tenants who will cha see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tasha Tudor's Garden more books like this by Tovah Martin (Adapted by), Richard Brown (Photographer) add to wishlist Go behind the scenes in Tasha Tudor's 19th-century gardens, her "paradise on earth." Martin's text and Brown's photos explore gardens filled not only with flowers and vegetables but with a menagerie of corgis, Nubian goats, fantail doves, exotic finches, cockatiels, nightingales, and parrots. see all copies from $7.15! new only from $10.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Running with Scissors more books like this by Augusten Burroughs (Read by) add to wishlist The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Year in the Maine Woods more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist The author took off for a year in a cabin deep in Maine, along with Jack, his pet raven. This is the lively, Thoreauvian journal he kept of the human and natural goings-on there. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir more books like this by Staceyann Chin add to wishlist From the iconic and charismatic star of "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam" comes this brave and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica by performer, activist, and writer Chin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The most beautiful house in the world more books like this by Witold Rybczynski add to wishlist The Most Beautiful House in the World is a book about architecture: about what architects do; how they get it right; what an architectural genius can see; and what distinguishes architecture from gastronomy. Illustrated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	P. Allen Smith's Garden Home more books like this by P Allen Smith, Jane Colclasure (Photographer), Elizabeth Ashbrook, Lady (Foreword by) add to wishlist Gardening guru P. Allen Smith comes from a long line of English gardeners. In his first book, he sets out to help amateur gardeners make the outdoors an extension of indoors by creating homey, livable garden spaces. His 12 principles of design are illustrated with helpful photos and supplemented with a variety of how-to projects. see all copies from $6.96! new only from $18.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Twenty years a-growing more books like this by Maurice O'Sullivan add to wishlist Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without any thought of a wider public; his style is derived from folk-tales which he heard from his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England more books like this by Brock Clarke add to wishlist It may not have been Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch the Emily Dickinson House, but he served ten years in prison for his crime. After his release, the past comes crashing through his front door as the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne go up in smoke. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy more books like this by Margaret Drabble add to wishlist Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Venetian Dreaming more books like this by Paula Weideger add to wishlist This memoir of a month spent in Venice explores the city's wondrous architecture, culture, and society, while describing the trials of everyday living. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer more books like this by Jonathan Ames add to wishlist The actor, columnist, and novelist who wrote this comic memoir focuses almost exclusively on sex here. He chronicles his visits to prostitutes, the trips to doctors and drug stores those visits sometimes necessitated, and his ventures abroad to look for love when the prospects at home got a little dim. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	World of Rosamunde Pilcher more books like this by Rosamunde Pilcher add to wishlist Rosamunde Pilcher takes readers on a tour of her life in rustic Cornwall, her home on the Scottish highlands, and city life in London. see all copies from $6.36! new only from $54.87! \| first editions
17 view cover	On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal more books like this by Mary Taylor Simeti add to wishlist Mary Taylor Simeti went to Sicily in 1962 for a visit. She fell in love with a Sicilian, got married, and stayed for over 20 years. This is her magical account of a year in a place she came to love--its sounds, taste, colors and myths, its religious festivals, its foods and its people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	House in Sicily more books like this by Daphne Phelps add to wishlist This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily. " For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality to seasoned travelers and professional escapists as well as to writers and artists like ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Books: A Memoir more books like this by Larry McMurtry add to wishlist In this work of extraordinary charm and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how the countless books he has read worked to form his literary tastes, while giving readers a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare volumes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	An Affair with a House more books like this by Bunny Williams, Christine Pettel, Fritz Vonderschulenberg (Photographer) add to wishlist No matter what its size or location, everyone wants their house to become a warm and welcoming environment in which friends and family can gather. For Bunny Williams, one of the America's premier interior designers and John Rosselli, one of New York City's most respected antique dealers, this home is an eighteenth-century New England manor house. ... see all copies from $32.45! new only from $32.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Vanishing Cornwall more books like this by Daphne du Maurier add to wishlist There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone ...I for this, and this for me.' Daphne du Maurier lived ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel more books like this by Tony Cohan add to wishlist Novelist Tony Cohan and his wife fell for the laid-back pace of life in San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico. Impulsively, they sold their California house and moved south. This is the chronicle of their move, and of how they managed--gradually, and not without trauma--to become integrated into the life of a Mexican town. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Winter: Notes from Montana more books like this by Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes (Photographer) add to wishlist In a celebration of winter in the last valley of Montana without electricity, Bass describes the wildness and freedom of valley people, the slow-motion quality of life, and the physical dangers of wilderness life. He also describes the anguish and pitfalls of being a writer and the living and dead writers with whom he feels a kinship. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village more books like this by David Yeadon add to wishlist Inspired by Carlo Levi's powerful book CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI, about his days in the Italian province of Basilicata as a political prisoner in the '30s, David Yeadon moved to Levi's village of Aliano to write about the changes in the place. There Yeadon has an entirely different experience: his year in the mountainous and rugged Italian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner add to wishlist In 16 graceful essays, Stegner writes about his perennial theme, the American West--its culture, landscape, and literature, and the ways that they interconnect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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