Category: Biography & Memoir

A Son of Mandan: An autobiography of James H. Hansen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : 2018

Seller ID: 79467

ISBN: 281DES1003909

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : February 2009

Seller ID: 90455

ISBN-13: 9781439138175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have predicted: dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation's keeper of traditional liberalism.As Peter S. Canellos and his team of "Boston Globe" reporters show in this revealing and intimate bi...
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Papa Abel Remembers: Tales of a Band of Booksellers

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Publisher: Against the Grain Press : September 2013

Seller ID: 87442

ISBN-13: 9780983404385

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Spit in the Ocean, No. 7: All About Ken Kesey

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Publisher: Penguin : October 2003

Seller ID: 92983

ISBN-13: 9780142003633

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey self-published six issues of a literary magazine called Spit in the Ocean. After the revolutionary novelist's death in the fall of 2001, one of his closest friends, acclaimed writer Ed McClanahan, decided to carry out Kesey's vision and put together a final issue of Spit as a tribute to Kesey's genius and imperturbable spirit. Featuring contributions from cultural luminaries-including Robert Stone, Paul Krassner, Wendell Berry, Bill Walton, and Grateful Dead lyricists Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow-as well as regular folk, and several pieces by Kesey himsel...
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The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi

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Publisher: Viking Press : October 1980

Seller ID: 83519

ISBN-13: 9780670344000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Truant From Medicine

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Random House - Australia

Seller ID: 93188

ISBN-13: 9781775537359

Binding: Trade Paperback

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We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher

By: Abbott, E. C.,Smith, Helena Huntington

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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press : November 1976

Seller ID: 96632

ISBN-13: 9780806113661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being ...
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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

By: Abdi, Dr. Hawa

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : April 2013

Seller ID: 79668

ISBN-13: 9781455503766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia.Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced people located a few miles from war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Since 1991, when the Somali government collapsed, famine struck, and aid groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty. She turned her 1300 acres of farmland into...
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Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family

By: Abu-Jaber, Diana

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 2016

Seller ID: 87239

ISBN-13: 9780393249095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate argument. The two could not agree on anything: not about food, work, or especially about what Diana should do with her life. Grace warned her away from children. Bud wanted her married above all--even if he had to provide the ring. Caught between cultures and lavished with contradictory "advice" from both sides of her family, Diana spent years learn...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $4.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2008

Seller ID: 79902

ISBN-13: 9780393333060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story--sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the cor...
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Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York

By: Ackerman, Kenneth D.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press : December 2005

Seller ID: 83724

ISBN-13: 9780786716869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Among the monumental characters who ascended to impossible renown and influence in the history of American politics, few are more fascinating than Boss Tweed; and few working historians could record in more vivid detail his astonishing career than Kenneth D. Ackerman--an investigative historian of the first order. Ackerman's vibrant, accessible, and altogether captivating Boss Tweed is a biography of the legendary figure who "bribed the state legislature, fixed elections, skimmed money from city contractors, and diverted public funds on a massive scale." During his reign at Tammany Hall and th...
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The Searching Spirit, An Autobiography, Joy Adamson

By: Adamson, Joy

Price: $3.00

Publisher: London, Collins and Harvill Press : 1978

Seller ID: 95843

ISBN: 281DES1005183

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

By: Ahmed, Qanta

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sourcebooks : September 2008

Seller ID: 83159

ISBN-13: 9781402210877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?--in particular women and Islam?--and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong.What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a world apart, a land of unparalle...
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Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile

By: al-Radi, Nuha

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage : May 2003

Seller ID: 91969

ISBN-13: 9781400075256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at h...
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Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq

By: al-Windawi, Thura

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking : March 2004

Seller ID: 92861

ISBN-13: 9780670058860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi kept a diary during the conflict in Iraq, saying that it was her way of ?controlling the chaos.? The diary, which documents the days leading up to the bombings, the war itself, and the lawless aftermath, puts a personal face on life in Baghdad. As Thura describes her life and that of her two younger sisters, she shows readers the many small details that illuminate the reality of war for Iraqi families, and especially for Iraqi children. Reminiscent of "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" and the recent national bestseller "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

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Publisher: Doubleday : August 1997

Seller ID: 83756

ISBN-13: 9780385484510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your bus...
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By: Albright, Madeleine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Miramax : September 2003

Seller ID: 88254

ISBN-13: 9780786868438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most admired women of our era and the first in American history to serve as Secretary of State shares her life story for the very first time.
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By: Albright, Madeleine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Miramax : September 2003

Seller ID: 41878

ISBN-13: 9780786868438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most admired women of our era and the first in American history to serve as Secretary of State shares her life story for the very first time.
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The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs

By: Albright, Madeleine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper : May 2006

Seller ID: 83641

ISBN-13: 9780060892579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists?Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world. Drawing upon her experiences while in office and her own deepest beliefs about morality, the United States, and the presen...
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

By: Alda, Alan

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : September 2006

Seller ID: 88965

ISBN-13: 9780739468326

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Man Who Climbs Trees: The Lofty Adventures of a Wildlife Cameraman

By: Aldred, James

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : May 2018

Seller ID: 63848

ISBN-13: 9781328473059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world." --Washington Post Meet the man who climbs trees for a living. In this adventure memoir, Aldred carries us with him across the globe and up to the top of these towering forest titans as he recalls his most memorable encounters with trees and their inhabitants. Every child knows the allure of climbing trees. But how many of us get to make a living at it, spending days observing nature from the canopies of stunning forests all around the world? As a wildlife cameraman for t...
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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

By: Ali, Muhammad,Ali, Hana Yasmeen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 2004

Seller ID: 87292

ISBN-13: 9780743255691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

""During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing. You saw only a part of me. After I retired from boxing my true work began. I have embarked on a journey of love."" So Muhammad Ali begins this spiritual memoir, his description of the values that have shaped and sustained him and that continue to guide his life. In "The Soul of a Butterfly" the great champion takes readers on a spiritual journey through the seasons of life, from childhood to the present, and shares the beliefs that have served him well. After fighting some of the fiercest bouts in ...
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My Invented Country: A Memoir

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : April 2004

Seller ID: 5325

ISBN-13: 9780060545673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland by bestselling author Isabel AllendeIn My Invented Country Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001...
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Paula

By: Allende, Isabel

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Publisher: Harper Collins : May 1995

Seller ID: 61380

ISBN-13: 9780060172534

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most popular and acclaimed of Latin American authors presents an unforgettable memoir. An exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as Allende's autobiography, Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life, written from the heart.
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Paula

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Collins : May 1995

Seller ID: 86195

ISBN-13: 9780060172534

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most popular and acclaimed of Latin American authors presents an unforgettable memoir. An exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as Allende's autobiography, Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life, written from the heart.
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Paula

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harper Collins : May 1995

Seller ID: 95854

ISBN-13: 9780060172534

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most popular and acclaimed of Latin American authors presents an unforgettable memoir. An exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as Allende's autobiography, Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life, written from the heart.
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

By: Allison, Dorothy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: E. P. Dutton : August 1995

Seller ID: 66733

ISBN-13: 9780525939214

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman

By: Allman, Galadrielle

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau : March 2014

Seller ID: 92661

ISBN-13: 9781400068944

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A deeply personal, revealing, and lyrical portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter Galadrielle Allman went to her first concert as an infant in diapers, held in her teenage mother's arms. Playing was her father--Duane Allman, who would become one of the most influential and sought-after musicians of his time. Just a few short years into his remarkable career, he was killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of twenty-four. His daughter was two years old. Galadrielle was raised in the shadow of his loss and his fame. Her mother sought s...
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Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilot's Own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons

By: Allred, Gordon T.,Kuwahara, Yasuo

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Publisher: American Legacy Media : March 2013

Seller ID: 92752

ISBN-13: 9780976154754

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Originally published in 1957, this enduring classic--the first-ever English publication cowritten by a Japanese suicide pilot--remains a touching and insightful look into the world of the kamikaze. This edition, now completely revised, reflects the valuable insight and perspective gained by the author since the time of the book's initial publication. From the age of 15, Yasuo Kuwahara began a life of military service that included suffering through brutal basic training, participating in ferocious aerial combat against the Allies, and avoiding a suicide mission when an atomic bomb was dropped ...
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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : June 1999

Seller ID: 73433

ISBN-13: 9780684867182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The author looks at his own friendships with his father and brothers, as well as friendships between other brothers, fellow soldiers, and colleagues.
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Category: Biography & Memoir