Category: Biographies

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy's critically acclaimed memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unw...
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Dry PB

By: Augusten Burroughs

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Picador: 2003

Seller ID: 8376

ISBN: 0312423799

Binding: Paperback

Nice clean copy with minimal signs of wear. ; 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 Inches; 320 pages;

From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Drythe hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.

You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten ne...
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Running with Scissors P/B A Memoir

By: Augusten Burroughs

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Picador: 2003

Seller ID: 16290

ISBN: 031242227X

Binding: Paperback

8.20 X 5.50 X 0.90 inches; 320 pages
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Nevertheless A Memoir

By: Baldwin, Alec

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Harper: 2017

Seller ID: 25993

ISBN: 0062409700

Binding: Hardcover

The Audacity of Hope

By: Barack Obama

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: 2006

Seller ID: 3379

ISBN: 0307455874

Binding: Paperback

Great copy that doesn't appear to be read. Marked First Vintage Books Edition, 2008 (not first printing) ; Vintage; 1.3 x 6.8 x 4.3 Inches; 464 pages; The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politicsa politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forwar...
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Henry Plantagenet

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Barnes Noble Books: 1994

Seller ID: 22871

ISBN: 156619363X

Binding: Hardcover

Hell's Angel The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club

By: Barger, Sonny & Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: 2001

Seller ID: 25910

ISBN: 0060937548

Binding: Paperback

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

By: Benjamin Ajak & Benson Deng & Alephonsian Deng & Judy Bernstein

Price: $7.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs: 2006

Seller ID: 13662

ISBN: 1610395980

Binding: Paperback

Nice clean copy with no writing or highlighting found. ; 8.20 X 5.40 X 0.80 inches; 336 pages
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West with the Night

By: Beryl Markham

Price: $7.50

Publisher: North Point Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2692

ISBN: 0865471185

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Shows some signs of wear with gift inscription inside. ; 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.5 Inches; 320 pages; West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
Regarded by many as one of the best adventure books ever!
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