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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
DescriptionJeannette Walls grew up together with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were together their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four kids. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his kids's ...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Description This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among together readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to go away behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and locate, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Environment out for a year to learn three ...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
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Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to exist a rural life—vowing this, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or study to exist not including it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative this ...

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Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
DescriptionMaybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a extra profound situate, and gave you advice to help you do your way throughout it. For Mitch Albom, this person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like ...
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
DescriptionThe author of Operating Instructions presents an intensely personal, inspirational, and witty guide this shares step-by-step pointers on how to exist a writer's life. 35,000 first printing. Tour. Believe you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you locate your passion and your voice, ...
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On Writing
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"Long exist the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade each writer must have. King's advice ...

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Lit: A Memoir
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The Liars' Club delivered 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 ...

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A Tale of Love and Darkness
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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed new work by "one of Israel's much gifted and prolific authors" (Helen Epstein, The Forward) is at one time a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived throughout its turbulent history.

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Three Weeks with My Brother
DescriptionDESCRIPTION: In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip all-around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. As Nicholas and Micah journey the globe, the intimate story of their family unfolds in the details of ...
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her ... Living
DescriptionTogether with the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered each recipe in Julia Kid's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul.

Simultaneous Publication together with Little Brown's Standard Print edition. Julie & Julia is the story of Julie Powell's strive to ...

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ManufacturerThorndike Press
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