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1. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
This is the inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature. "That ... More
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2. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a ... More
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3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Dr. Maya Angelou
The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ". . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of ... More
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4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual ... More
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5. Sula
by Toni Morrison
First published in 1974, this novel set in a small town in Ohio, focuses on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their secrets ... More
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6. Gift from the Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a spectacular hardcover reissue of one of ... More
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7. Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity
by Primo Levi
Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous ... More
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8. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
Hailed by the "New York Times" as "a fascinating, spicy, learned tale, " this runaway national bestseller takes an extraordinary look into literary ... More
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9. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the ... More
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10. Hitch-22: A Memoir
by Christopher Hitchens
Over the last thirty years, Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. His originality ... More
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11. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Rarely has a book on the craft of writing been so clear, so useful and so entertaining. A series of vivid memories from King's adolescence to his ... More
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12. A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were ... More
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13. Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
This work describes Henry David Thoreau's experiment in living in the relative wilds by Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847. It is an examination of the ... More
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14. Rain of Gold
by Victor Villasenor
This phenomenal national bestseller has received extraordinary reviews and avid national media attention. Novelist Villasenor tells the true-life ... More
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15. Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the ... More
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16. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
by Rhoda Janzen
"It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I'm reading, but Janzen's voice--singular, deadpan, sharp-witted and honest--slayed me." - ... More
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17. The Old Man and the Boy
by Robert Ruark
To celebrate the beginning of the Classics of American Sport series, Stackpole is reprinting Ruark's classic tales of the coming of age of a boy and ... More
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18. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
After the great success of her Operating Instructions--the chronicle of a single mother surviving the first year of her son's life--Anne Lamott now ... More
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19. Three Weeks with My Brother
by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks
In January 2003 Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. An adventure by any measure, this trip was ... More
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20. 84 Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
Cover design by Marion Dorn It all began in 1949 with a letter enquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to ... More
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21. All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings
by George H W Bush
A personal, revealing portrait of former President Bush, told through the letters, journal entries and memoranda he wrote from his days in the Navy ... More
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22. Boy: Tales of Childhood
by Roald Dahl
Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is ... More
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23. Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
Unlike many biographies of Abraham Lincoln, which have concentrated on particular aspects of his life, his politics, his writings, his personal life ... More
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24. Wind, Sand and Stars
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across ... More
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25. Austerlitz
by Winfried Georg Sebald
"Austerlitz" is W. G. Sebald's classic novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport ... More
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