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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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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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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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Lucky [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Alice Sebold
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 Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go. Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she de... more info>>
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Traveling with Pomegranates [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Sue Monk Kidd
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An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Gr... more info>>
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Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Jennifer Saginor
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You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women catering to your every need. You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who's always there for you. Welcome to the world of Playground, the true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion. By the time she was fourteen, she'd done countless drugs, had a secret affair with Hef's girlfriend, and was alre... more info>>
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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 Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed ... more info>>
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A Piece of Cake [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Cupcake Brown
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Twelve-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lois. "Lois, my momma's dead." Here is the threshold of a hell for young Cupcake. Rather than being allowed to live with the man she beli... more info>>
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Cowboy & Wills: A Love Story [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Monica Holloway
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Critically-acclaimed author Monica Holloway shares the extraordinary, touching story of Cowboy, the golden retriever puppy who changed her son's life.
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Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Brooke Shields
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When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, a crippling depression followed. In Down Came the Rain, Brooke writes about the tribulations, depression, and, ultimately, the triumphs that happened before and after the birth. With a knowledgeable voice and a self-deprecating sense of humor, Brooke discusses her battle with postpartum depression, a disorder that has been widely misunderstood and is prevalent in many new mothers. Having successfully recovered thro... more info>>
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Driving with Dead People [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Monica Holloway
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Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica is primed to become a morbid child. Yet in spite of her father's bouts of violence and abuse, her mother's selfishness and prim denial, and her siblings' personal battles and betrayals, Monica... more info>>
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Everything About Me Is Fake . . . And I'm Perfect [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Janice Dickinson
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In Everything About Me Is Fake ... and I'm Perfect, the hilarious and candid follow-up to the national bestseller No Lifeguard on Duty, Janice Dickinson tackles our society's unattainable standards of beauty and reveals the secrets behind her own lifelong struggle to achieve perfection--from her bra-stuffing days as a flat-chested teenager through her career as the world's first supermodel to her ultimate comeback as a bestselling author and television star on the top-rated reality television hi... more info>>
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Homesick: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jenny Lauren
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This startlingly plainspoken and unflinching first-person account by the niece of fashion icon Ralph Lauren details a wrenching struggle with anorexia and bulimia--and speaks powerfully to a widespread failure by the medical community to understand eating disorders. With captivating blue eyes and dark hair, Jenny Lauren looked as though she'd stepped out of one of the glossy ads for which her uncle is famous. It was not long, however, before Jenny found herself in a world where it was easy to se... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Maya Angelou
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Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Janine Latus
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In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me... That same spring Janine Latus was struggling to leave her marriage--a marriage to a handsome and successful man. A marriag... more info>>
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Joan of Arc: A Life [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Mary Gordon
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"A master of the story form" (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint. Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orleans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the king of France, only to be captured and burned at the stake as a ... more info>>
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Julia Child [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Laura Shapiro
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A biography of Julia Child from the award-winning author of Perfection Salad. One of the most beloved figures in 20th century American culture was Julia Child, the bouyant "French Chef" who taught millions of Americans to cook with confidence and eat with pleasure. With an irrepressible sense of humor and a passion for good food, Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance and became its chief icon. Unlike the great cooking teachers who preceded her, she won her audience through the revol... more info>>
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Antonia Fraser
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Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. But the story of her journey begun as a fourteen-year-old sent from Vienna to marry the future Louis XVI to her courageous defense before she was sent to the guillotine reveals a woma... more info>>
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Memoirs of a Slave Girl [MultiFormat]
by Harriet Jacobs
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An honest and fearless account of her exploitation as a slave. This is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, Black history, or the subject of sexual exploitation throughout history. Jacobs' story is unflinching and unusual in its candor. (Published: 2004)
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On Michael Jackson [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Margo Jefferson
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Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson's rise and fall? In On Michael Jackson--an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis--Pulitzer P... more info>>
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Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Marina Nemat
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What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution. In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes. Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer partie... more info>>
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Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Nevada Barr
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A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels. A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels. Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for meaning in life. Hat by hat, step by step, Barr leads readers down her path to enlightenment by shar... more info>>
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.
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Society's Child: My Autobiography [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Janis Ian
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Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of fifteen when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a national hit. An intimate portrait of an interracial relationship, "Society's Child" climbed the charts despite the fact that many radio stations across the country refused to play it because of its controversial subject matter. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In this fascinating memoir of her life in the music business, Ian chronicle... more info>>
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The Secret Wife of King George IV [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Diane Haeger
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Although it was illegal, secret, and against the express commands of his famously mad father, King George IV of England married twice--once for duty and once for love. While Caroline of Brunswick eventually became his lawful queen, it was the beautiful Maria Fitzherbert, recognized as his wife by the Catholic Church but not by the laws of England, who claimed his heart. In the hands of author Diane Haeger, their relationship becomes a mesmerizing love story, filled with intrigue and passion. The... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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