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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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ManufacturerCrown
Categories Ethics   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   African-American & Black   Medical   Women   General   Virginia   Cancer   Medical Ethics   Research   History of Science   Hardcover   Printed Books   All product   Books  
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Description 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 unique’s power to modify lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s ...

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ManufacturerPenguin Books
Categories Memoirs   Educators   Women   General   Money Management for Women   Afghanistan   Central Asia   Pakistan   Philanthropy & Charity   Paperback   Printed Books   All product   Books  
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches together with this wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.
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ManufacturerTantor Media
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   Sexuality   Entertainers   Memoirs   Women   General   Literary Theory   Books on CD   Unabridged  
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
DescriptionIn My Horizontal Life, actress and stand-up comedian Chelsea Handler boldly recounted her one-night stands-the good, the bad, and the disastrous. In this wickedly honest new work, she casts the net wider together with even funnier outcomes, recalling the much noteworthy highs and lows of her life to date--counting her efforts to diversify by dating ...
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ManufacturerSimon & Schuster Audio
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   Sexuality   Humor   Entertainers   Memoirs   Women   General   Essays   Love, Sex & Marriage   Human   Books on CD   Unabridged  
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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ManufacturerSan Val
Categories Formats   Authors   Family & Childhood   Memoirs   Journalists   Women   General   Dysfunctional Relationships   Printed Books   Herge   Wells, Rebecca  
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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Categories Biographies & Memoirs   Gale Publishing   Authors   Memoirs   Women   Travel   General   Large Print   Paperback   Printed Books  
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
DescriptionAt the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love together with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to every other, but in addition swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. ...
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ManufacturerThorndike Press
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   General AAS   Memoirs   Women   General   Marriage   Hardcover   Large Print   Printed Books  
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
DescriptionKelly Cutrone has long been mentoring women on how to do it in one of the much competitive industries in the world. She has kicked people out of fashion shows, forced some of reality television's shiny stars to fire their friends, and built her own company-one of the much great PR firms in the fashion business-from the ground up. Throughout it ...
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ManufacturerHarperOne
Categories Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Memoirs   Women   General   Motivational   Success   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.

An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.

A gutsy woman together with a stubborn dream.

A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an ...

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ManufacturerThomas Nelson
Categories Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   African-American & Black   General   Religious   Memoirs   Women   Paperback   Printed Books  
Going Rogue: An American Life
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On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention this electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the much recognizable women in the world.

As chief executive of America′s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed throughout ...

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ManufacturerHarperCollins
Categories Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Political   Memoirs   Women   General   Alaska   Federal Government   Hardcover   Printed Books   All product   Books  
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