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  An Unfinished Woman

  A Memoir

  by Lillian Hellman

  Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world, and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own.
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  What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  Further Adventures of a Curious Character

  by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

  The best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" --funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its... (more)
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  Candy Girl

  A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

  by Diablo Cody

  Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV’s The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave’s Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source— amateur night at the seedy Skyway ... (more)
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  Falling Leaves

  The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

  by Adeline Yen Mah

  Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith... (more)
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  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a... (more)
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  Zen in the Art of Writing

  by Ray Bradbury

  "Every morning I jump out of bed and step on  a land mine. The land mine is me. After the  explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the  pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!"  Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities  every writer must have, as well as a spirit of  adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable  Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and  excitement of a lifetime... (more)
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  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  Adventures of a Curious Character

  by Richard P. Feynman, Edward Hutchings, Ralph Leighton

  The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo... (more)
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  Shattered Dreams

  My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

  by Irene Spencer

  Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's six brothers, one sister, and numerous wives and... (more)
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  Service Included

  Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

  by Phoebe Damrosch

  Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book. While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story... (more)
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  Letters of Agar Adamson, 1914-1919

  by Agar Adamson

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  Memoirs Of A C Student by Don White 2006

  There are a few things you should know before reading this new book by Don White. First Don is a seasoned performer who has spent years honing the craft of leading a roomful of people across the entire spectrum of emotion, before leaving them in a better place than they were when they arrived.
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  Roll Around Heaven

  An All-True Accidental Spiritual Adventure

  by Jessica Maxwell

  Chronicling nearly two decades of Jessica Maxwell's all-true accidental spiritual adventure and fillled with astonishing stories, witty insights, and breathtaking revelations, Roll Around Heaven will surely inspire each reader to embrace the power of the divine in his or her own life. An adventure writer by trade, Jessica had never given God a second thought until, as she describes it, "He/She/It grabbed me by... (more)
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  The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

  by Theodore G. Striphas

  Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything... (more)
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  Twitterature

  The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less

  by Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin

  Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time--and concisely! Hence the genius of Twitterature . Hatched in a dorm room at the brain trust that is the University of... (more)
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  The Dead Janitors Club: Pathetically True Tales of a Crime Scene Cleanup King

  by Jeff Klima

  Having toiled for minimum wage for years, Jeff Klima got an unexpected offer: to head up a brand new crime scene cleanup company in Orange County. The upside: a chance to make incredible money in a field with no competition.The downside? Everything else about the job. The Dead Janitors Club is an engrossing, hilarious, and morbidly fascinating memoir that brings the hidden world of crime scene cleanup to life... (more)
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  Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand

  In Drink, Play, F@#k Bob Sullivan, a jilted husband, sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his home in New York City to a drinking bender across Ireland, through the glitz and glamour that is Las Vegas, and to the hedonistic pleasure palaces of Thailand. After a lifetime of playing it safe, Mr. Sullivan finally... (more)
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  Behind the Wall

  by Elizabeth Kuhn

  BEHIND THE WALL of a Trappistine Monastery, under Papal Enclosure, tread only the Monks and Nuns who vow to live in this Order of their own free will.  This is the story of a young girl aspiring to the heights of her vocation under the Cistercian Rule of Saint Benedict.  Absent from any contact with the outside world, in strict silence, in a non speaking Order, she lives her life alone with God reenacting the... (more)
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  Montserrat in England: Dynamics of Culture

  by Sharmen Greenaway

  As the volcano erupted on the island of Montserrat, it destroyed everything in its path. The Montserrat folk fled from the hot ash and exploding mountains, many as far as other countries, most notably England. Author Sharmen D. Greenaway, a native of the island, was one of many who sought refuge in England; however, most of the island's inhabitants were not prepared for life in this new place. The winters were... (more)