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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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 This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a bal... more info>>
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Julie Powell
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With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classi... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Last Words [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by George Carlin
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 The autobiography that George Carlin had nearly completed before he died.
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Wishful Drinking [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Carrie Fisher
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Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at ... more info>>
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Jon Krakauer
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The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join ... more info>>
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jeannette Walls
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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Wa... more info>>
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The Last Lecture [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Randy Pausch
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."--Randy Pausch. When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give a "last lecture," he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (... more info>>
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Losing It, And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Valerie Bertinelli
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 We all knew and loved Valerie Bertinelli as the girl next door cutie, Barbara Cooper, in the hit TV show "One Day at a Time." Now she is the divorced mother of a teenager and is conducting a very public--and already successful--campaign to lose weight as a spokesperson for Jenny Craig. Losing It is Bertinelli's frank motivational story--from her complicated family life to her struggles to maintain a healthy self-image while coping with celebrity, her tumultuous 20-year marriage to rock star Eddi... more info>>
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American on Purpose [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Craig Ferguson
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In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark?as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicid... more info>>
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Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Belle de Jour
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 Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl (Published: 2007)
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High On Arrival [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Mackenzie Phillips
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Not long before her fiftieth birthday,Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's fr... more info>>
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Highest Duty [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Jeffrey Zaslow
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In this inspirational autobiography, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so vita
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Patrick Robinson, Marcus Luttrell
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Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American N... more info>>
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations ... One School at a Time [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Greg Mortenson
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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools--e... more info>>
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A Weeping upon the Thames [An Exploration of Charles Dickens] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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 Charles Dickens was one of the top three investigative journalists of his century, besides being a famous novelist. We explore the surprising and often shocking background that makes him as relevant today as he was in the Victorian world. London's rookeries were even more notorious than the Five Points section in Gangs of New York. (Published: 2003)
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Lit [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Mary Karr
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The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness?and to her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a so... more info>>
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
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A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities. On the morning of December 10, 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall a... more info>>
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Children of Dust [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ali Eteraz
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Ali Eteraz's Children of Dust is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity.Children of Dust begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate ... more info>>
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Einstein: His Life and Universe [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Walter Isaacson
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How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the mind reader of the creator of th... more info>>
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Letter to My Daughter [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Maya Angelou
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For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that ... more info>>
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Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Kerry Cohen
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Kerry Cohen's extraordinary memoir tells it like it is--she's a teenager like any other, dealing with parents, school, and friends, but for some reason, "standing out" seems to have become almost impossible. Boys--and men--are a different matter altogether, and young Kerry soon realizes that, with the right clothes and attitude, she can get all the male attention she wants. What she doesn't realize is how easy it is to get more than you're ready for. In rich, engaging detail, LOOSE GIRL discover... more info>>
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by David McCullough
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Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with a new introduction by the author, Mornings on Horseback is reprinted as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition. Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt. It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurren... more info>>
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Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Kathy Griffin
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A Conversation with Kathy Griffin: Q: State your name and profession. KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber. Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children's story? KG: I had not considered it, because I'd always been told by the nuns at St. Bernadine's that my cursive was poor. A children's story is an interesting idea. How's this for a title: "Waterboarding Pre-Teens... more info>>
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Parched [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Heather King
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This powerful memoir chronicles how the author became her drinking self, spending over 20 years in a cycle of drinking and self-loathing. From highly functioning alcoholic to living in dive bars, King's painful and poignant story tells how she evolved, stopped, and changed her life.
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Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Madeleine Albright
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Before long, and without intending it, I found that jewelry had become part of my personal diplomatic arsenal. Former president George H. W. Bush had been known for saying "Read my lips." I began urging colleagues and reporters to "Read my pins." It would never have happened if not for Saddam Hussein. When U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright criticized the dictator, his poet in residence responded by calling her "an unparalleled serpent." Shortly thereafter, while preparing ... more info>>
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