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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
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In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the much dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history, vividly taking readers throughout the tragic 2008 K2 ascent this claimed the lives of eleven climbers, severely injured two others, and made headlines all-around the world.

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself
DescriptionPresents the memoirs of the famed abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the North afterwards years of enslavement and who became a champion of human rights.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
DescriptionWhen Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering results of oxygen depletion. As he turned to initiate his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had ...
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
DescriptionThe personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey throughout the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT. In Touched together with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the ...
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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
DescriptionPeople all-around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong—a world-class athlete nearly struck down in his prime, who came back to win the world's much grueling test of cycling, the Tour de France. It's Not Concerning the Bike is the story of Armstrong's journey from inauspicious beginnings throughout triumph, tragedy, transformation, ...
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
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In this true and inspiring book, a distinctive and transcendent friendship rises from the depths of a shocking crime and a devastating miscarriage of justice.
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Thinking in Pictures (Expanded, Tie-in Edition): My Life with Autism (Vintage)
DescriptionTemple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has intended one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She in addition lectures widely on autism--for the reason that Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways this are incomprehensible to the rest of us.

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A Million Little Pieces
Description“The much lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’ Junky.” —The Boston Globe

“Again and again, the book brings recollections this go away the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey’s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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Drinking: A Love Story
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
DescriptionIn 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 in addition the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. Afterwards 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which ...
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