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Out of Egypt: A Memoir

By: Aciman, Andre

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 385266

ISBN: 0312426550

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

has a lot of writing/markings in margins
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: April 2011

Seller ID: 344680

ISBN: 039307241X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia--loss of language--and could utter only a single syllable: "mem." The standard therapies yielded little result but frustration. Diane soon found, however, that by harnessing their deep knowledge of each other and her scientific understanding of language and the brain she could guide Paul back to the world of words. This triumphant book is both a humane and revealing addition to the medical literature on stroke and ...
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Saturday Night Widowers: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

By: Aikman, Becky

Price: $7.00

Publisher: July 2013

Seller ID: 244921

ISBN: 0307590437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties - a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role - Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional ideas. Together, these friends summon the humor, resilience, and striving spirit essential for anyone overcoming adversity.
Meet the Saturday Nig...
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Insatiable: Porn A Love Story

By: Akira, Asa

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 402743

ISBN: 0802122590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her #1 bestselling series "Asa Akira Is Insatiable."

In Insatiable, Akira recounts her extraordinary life in chapters that are hilarious, shocking, and touching. In a wry, conversational tone, she ta...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday: August 1997

Seller ID: 38602

ISBN: 0385484518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for ...
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Have a Little Faith: A True Story

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2014

Seller ID: 78441

ISBN: 0786868724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith ...
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Tuesdays With Morrie

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $4.00

Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 130469

ISBN: 076790592X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and t...
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Hiding From Reality

By: Armstrong, Taylor

Price: $8.00

Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 415817

ISBN: 1451677715

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

My Story of Love Loss and Finding the Courage Within.
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Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard

By: Asgedom, Mawi

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers: September 2002

Seller ID: 63034

ISBN: 0316826200

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Read the remarkable true story of a young boy's journey from civil war in east Africa to a refugee camp in Sudan, to a childhood on welfare in an affluent American suburb, and eventually to a full-tuition scholarship at Harvard University.

Following his father's advice to "treat all people-even the most unsightly beetles-as though they were angels sent from heaven," Mawi overcomes the challenges of language barriers, cultural differences, racial prejudice, and financial disadvantage to build a fulfilling, successful life for himself in his new home.

Of Beetles and Ang...
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Foreskin's Lament

By: Auslander, Shalom

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2012

Seller ID: 55253

ISBN: 1594489556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find his way to a life where he didn't struggle against God daily. "Foreskin's Lament" reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the "blessing bee" (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to an Orthodox-style reform school in Israel after he's caught shoplifting Unio...
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Foreskin's Lament

By: Auslander, Shalom

Price: $6.00

Publisher: August 2012

Seller ID: 94379

ISBN: 1594483337

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times Notable Book, and a "chaotic, laugh riot" (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir.
Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he didn't struggle daily with the fear of God's formidable wrath. Foreskin's Lament reveals Auslander's "painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious" youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox Jewish community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a ...
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Growing Up

By: Baker, Russell

Price: $5.99

Publisher: November 2014

Seller ID: 66614

ISBN: 0452254345

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Dog Medicine

By: Barton, Julie

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 403004

ISBN: 0143130013

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman's battle with depression and how her dog saved her life
A New York Times Bestseller

"Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read." --Cheryl Strayed
At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home.
Haunted by troubling childhood memories, Julie continued to sink into suicidal depression. Psychiatrists, t...
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With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

By: Bateson, Mary Catherine

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 400755

ISBN: 0060975733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In "With a Daughter's Eye," writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds new light on her parents' prodigious achievements and stands alone as an important contribution for scholars of Mead and Bateson. But for readers everywhere, this engaging, poignant, and powerful book is first and foremost a singularly candid memoir of a unique family by the only person who could have written it.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

By: Bauby, Jean-Dominique

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: June 1998

Seller ID: 71613

ISBN: 0375701214

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time...
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Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers

By: Bernstein, Harry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: May 2014

Seller ID: 102858

ISBN: 0345496108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its 'Invisible Wall.' "
The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the "invisible wall" that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from C...
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones

By: Blow, Charles M,

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 397363

ISBN: 0544570111

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times Notable Book - Lambda Literary Award Winner - Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award

"Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age." -- Washington Blade

" An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting." -- New York Times

Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalist's indelible coming-of-age tale.

Charles M. Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a...
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What We Have: A Memoir

By: Boesky, Amy

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 406338

ISBN: 159240636X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An inspiring true story of the women in one family and their fight against cancer that Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, calls "utterly breathtaking."
At thirty-two, Amy Boesky had it all: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember.
Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters were previvors growing up in time's shadow. But rather than dwelling on fear, Amy wanted to plan for a new baby and li...
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Side Show: My Life with Geeks, Freaks and Vagabonds in the Carny Trade

By: Bone, Howard,Waldron, Daniel,Teller,

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Sun Dog Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 433084

ISBN: 0941543285

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cultural Writing. Memoir. Howard Bone was a sideshow magician virtually his whole working life. During a long, eventful, and adventurous career he lived every aspect of outdoor show business in its golden era. SIDE SHOW captures the flavor of those boisterous times -- the characters, the scenes, the scams, the dodges, the joys and sorrows of carny ways as only an insider could know them. An appealing, amusing and down and dirty glimpse into the rarely depicted nether regions of show business -- Ricky Jay, magician, actor, and author.
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Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light

By: Borovitz, Mark

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 393821

ISBN: 006056380X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mark Borovitz was a mobster, gangster, con man, gambler, thief, and a drunk. He's seen it all. In this inspiring memoir, he takes you on a journey from the streets to discovering his soul in a prison cell.
When Mark was fourteen, his father died and his world came crashing down. He stole, gambled, and drank, beginning a twenty-year life of crime, all the while trying to be the good son, the good brother, the good boy, but his life only spun more out of control until the mob put a hit out on him.
After his release from prison, the drinking and thieving continued until, at the edg...
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