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The Author Describes Her Mormon Upbringing, Juxtaposing These Reminiscences With Discussions Of The Flooding Of A Wildlife Bird Sanctuary And Its Effect On ...

when Bethany Hamilton Lost Her Arm In The Fall Of 2003 To A Shark Attack, It Looked As If The Career Of One Of The Country's Top Amateur Surfers Was Over. ...

The ... Author Of Hourglass Now Gives Us A New Memoir About Identity, Paternity, And Family Secrets--a Real-time Exploration Of The ... Discovery She Made L...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising hu...

For Ta-nehisi Coates, History Has Always Been Personal. At Every Stage Of His Life, He's Sought In His Explorations Of History Answers To The Mysteries That...

The Heartwarming And Unforgettable Story Of A Family In The Making And The Wondrously Neurotic Dog Who Taught Them What Really Matters In Life John And Jenn...

“Heroic and inspiring.”―The New York Times Grace Humiston was a lawyer, a detective, and the first female U.S. District Attorney. She was also a soci...

A real Hollywood-style tell-all, this is the extremely candid and highly explosive autobiography of one of the movie industry's most talented and troubled...

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The American Association For The Advancement Of Science/subaru Science Books & Film Prize Fo...

This 35th anniversary edition of a best-selling book recounts Corrie tenBoom's horrific experiences in Hitler's concentration camps, explains how she surv...

A House in the Sky is a 2013 memoir by Amanda Lindhout, co-written with journalist Sara Corbett. It recounts Lindhout's experience in southern Somalia as a ...

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyl...

a True Story Of: Lives Preserved In Spite Of Brutal Restrictions. Family Preserved Through Imprisonment And Long Separations. Faith Preserved In The Midst O...

This Graphic Novel Is A First-hand Account Of Congressman John Lewis' Lifelong Struggle For Civil And Human Rights, Meditating In The Modern Age On The Dist...

'country Crock' First Published, In Different Form, In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, And Revolution In Trump's America (macmillan Publishing Group, 201...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Rev...

In A Heart-wrenching, Candid Autobiography, A Human Rights Activist Offers A Firsthand Account Of War From The Perspective Of A Former Child Soldier, Detail...

In A Memoir About The Power Of Race To Share One's Personal Identity, The Daughter Of Jewish Father And African-american Mother Recalls Her Confusing But Ul...

A celebration of free speech and democracy and a rousing call to action from the widely acclaimed author of Infidel, this #1 national bestseller is now avai...

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A medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’...

Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness...

Describes Travel Experiences In Vanuatu And Fiji, Which Include Coping With Mother Nature--typhoons, Earthquakes, Volcanoes--and Observing The Relaxed Lifes...

From Bestselling And Award-winning Country/pop Star Shania Twain, An Exploration Of Her Hard-scrabble Childhood And Rise To Worldwide Fame. Shania Twain. In...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that won’t let go, and one woman’s a...

The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forestMaxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family w...

The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to thrash an Aston Mart...

A Man, A Dog, And The Lengths To Which Love Will Go To Sacrifice For Its Companion. Finding Gobi Is The Miraculous Tale Of Dion Leonard, A Seasoned Ultramar...

In An Illustrated Memoir, The Creator Of The Bloggess Blog Shares Humorous Stories From Her Life, Including Her Awkward Upbringing In Texas And Her Relation...

Have You Ever Wondered Why God Uses Ordinary People To Accomplish His Work And To Spread The Good News? Join Bestselling Author And Bible Teacher John Macar...

From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir about her friendship with trailblazer Raven Wilkinson whi...

Winner Of The 2003 Trillium Book Award Stories Are Wondrous Things, Award-winning Author And Scholar Thomas King Declares In His 2003 Cbc Massey Lectures. A...

The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress and Hollywood icon who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Golden Girls to Sa...

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 ...

a Riveting Memoir Of A Girl's Painful Coming-of-age In A Wealthy Chinese Family During The 1940s. a Chinese Proverb Says, Falling Leaves Return To Their Ro...

Betty Greene coaxed her Grumman seaplane to two thousand feet..... Suddenly, silence--total silence. The plane engine had stopped! Her passengers gasped, bu...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions...

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Once in nine lives,something extraordinary happens...The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally ...

alex Jones Was An On-fire Pentecostal Minister In Detroit Who Was A Completely Dedicated Shepherd Of His Flock. He Greatly Loved His People And They Loved ...

A Moving Account Of Resilience, Hope, Fear And Mortality, And How These Things Resonate In Our Lives, By Actor And Advocate Michael J. Fox.Categories: Healt...

Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, their per...

With Heartfelt Candor And Her Usual Side-splitting Bite, Humorist, Essayist, And Blogger At Bitchesgottaeat.com Samantha Irby Captures Powerful Emotional Tr...

In This Tribute To Teachers Everywhere. Mccourt Records The Trials, Triumphs And Surprises He Faces In Public High Schools Around New York City. His Methods...

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd bee...

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.In Afghanis...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own m...

An acclaimed journalist shares the gripping story of her rape when she was a college freshman, achieving justice in the courtroom, and triumphing in the fa...