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1	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time more books like this by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Sarah Thomson (Adapted by) add to wishlist With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second ...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain - in honour of his younger sister, but things went wrong and Greg became lost. He wandered into a poor village, where the chief and his people took ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea more books like this by Greg Mortenson, Susan L Roth add to wishlist Mortenson stumbled, lost and delirious, into a remote Himalayan village after a failed climb up K2. The villagers saved his life, and he vowed to return and build them a school. The remarkable story of his promise kept is now perfect for reading aloud. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines more books like this by Nic Sheff add to wishlist In this unflinching chronicle of life as an addict" ("U.S. News & World Report"), Sheff spares no detail in telling the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of addiction to drugs, his relapse, and the road to recovery. It is a harrowing portrait--but not one without hope. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $5.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Mao's Last Dancer more books like this by Li Cunxin add to wishlist The international bestselling memoir of a world-renowned artist's defection from China to America. see all copies from $3.69! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hope in the Unseen more books like this by Ron Suskind add to wishlist As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
6	Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida more books like this by Victor Martinez add to wishlist Manuel Hernandez faces a time of many changes during the year leading up to anticipated initiation into a gang. Manny's alcoholic father calls him "el perico," or parrot, comparing him to the Mexican saying about a parrot that complains about how hot it is in the shade while all along he's sitting inside the oven and doesn't know it. Will Manny ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer more books like this by I Opdyke add to wishlist This biography tells the story of Irene Gut Opdyke. When she was a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland, Opdyke risked her life by sheltering 12 Jews in the basement of her employer's home--he was a German officer. She moved to the US after World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story about Brain Science more books like this by John Fleischman add to wishlist The true story of Phineas Cage, a man who lived through a horrible accident that left him with a hole in his brain in 1848. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers more books like this by Mordicai Gerstein add to wishlist The true story of street performer Philippe Petit's 1974 high wire walk between the two towers of New York City's World Trade Center. Color ink-and-oil illustrations accompany the text. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2003 by Publishers Weekly and selected by the New York Times Book Review as a 2003 Notable book and one of the Best ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Who Was Albert Einstein? more books like this by Jess Brallier, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator) add to wishlist Full of the details kids want to know, the true story of scientist Albert Einstein is told in a fun, engaging way. Illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
11 view cover	It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager more books like this by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks, PH.D. (Editor), Dr. Dathan Sheranian (Foreword by) add to wishlist A teenaged victim of AIDS recounts her battle with the disease in her diary, describing her first love, the night she was date-raped, her diagnosis of AIDS, and her thoughts and dreams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust more books like this by Livia Bitton-Jackson add to wishlist Elli Friedmann was 13 when the Nazis invaded the town in Hungary where she lived. At first Elli and her mother were forced to relocate to a crowded ghetto, but eventually they were transported to Auschwitz. Because of her blond hair, Elli was spared from death and selected as a worker. In this memoir, she describes life in the infamous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams more books like this by Jennifer Bryant, Melissa Sweet (Illustrator) add to wishlist In this picture book biography, Bryant's engaging prose and Sweet's stunning mixed-media illustrations celebrate the amazing man who finds a way to earn a living and to honor his calling to be a poet. see all copies from $6.55! new only from $10.18! \| SVS
14 view cover	Through My Eyes more books like this by Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell (Editor) add to wishlist Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High more books like this by Melba Patillo Beals add to wishlist The author reflects on her role in the 1957 integration of Little Rock Central High School. A 16-year-old girl at the time, the author was among the first nine black students to attend that school--a situation that brought out the best, and the worst, in her neighbors and fellow students. The integration of Central High School was, and continues ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $2.61! \| SVS
16 view cover	West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 more books like this by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Lea MacBride (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of letters written by the author of the Little House books to her husband, Almanzo, while she was visiting their daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Snowflake Bentley more books like this by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Mary Azarian (Illustrator) add to wishlist This biography tells the story of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, a boy who loved snow so much that he wanted to capture its beauty forever in photographs. His parents, both farmers, scrimped and saved up their money and bought him a camera that came with its own microscope, and Wilson started photographing snowflakes. While at first no one paid him ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia more books like this by Esther Hautzig add to wishlist Hautzig tells how she was wrenched from her life in a wealthy Jewish family in Poland and deported to a Siberian village. In 1941, when she was ten, she, her mother, and grandmother were captured by the Russians and shipped by cattle-car to a forced-labor camp. There, the three of them manage to stay together and for four years survive the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Three Little Words: A Memoir more books like this by Ashley Rhodes-Courter add to wishlist Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in 14 different foster homes. In this unforgettable memoir, the author recounts her years growing up in the foster care system, revealing painful memories but also her determination to discover the power of her own voice. see all copies from $2.44! new only from $4.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Wright Brothers more books like this by Quentin Reynolds add to wishlist A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first airplane. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain more books like this by Peter Sis add to wishlist In his most personal work to date, award-winning author Peter Ss offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	26 Fairmount Avenue more books like this by Tomie dePaola (Illustrator) add to wishlist The popular author/illustrator shares tales from his childhood such as the time he and his family were caught in a hurricane and his experiences in kindergarten. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka more books like this by Jon Scieszka add to wishlist How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is "Knucklehead." Part memoir, part scrapbook, ... see all copies from $4.91! new only from $5.20! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Abe Lincoln's Hat more books like this by Martha F Brenner add to wishlist Anecdotes about Lincoln's habit of keeping important papers in his hat and highlights from his legal battles are woven into a story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt more books like this by Jean Fritz, Mike Wimmer (Illustrator) add to wishlist Written for children, this is an introduction to the fascinating life of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. Much of the book focuses on Roosevelt's early years, giving readers the chance to note such things as how his childhood love of nature contributed to his presidential decision to establish several national forests, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| first editions \| SVS

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