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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Print book

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,...
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Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet

Dr. Jan Pol - Gotham; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan.Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wilds hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been...
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Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick - Touchstone
Format: Print book

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An "honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable" (Harper's Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls,...
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Bossypants

Tina Fey - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover

Stated First Edition! Hardcover with DJ. Feel's like a new unread (or gently read) copy. Clean and unmarked, not price clipped, not a remainder. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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Yes Please

Amy Poehler - Dey Street
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They...
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's...
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A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern...
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced...
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Yes, Chef: A Memoir

Marcus Samuelsson - Books on Tape
Format: eAudiobook

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"One of the great culinary stories of our time." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon,...
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