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By: Isay, Dave
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): October 2008
Seller ID: 18168
As heard on NPR?a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps? collection, creating a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives?to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage, and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of h... View more info
By: Moffat, Mary J.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Vintage: June 1975
Seller ID: 33508
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Bantam: January 2004
Seller ID: 44790
By: A. M. Homes
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): March 2008
Seller ID: 49241
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. "The Mistress's Daughter" is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history... View more info
By: Adam Gopnik
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: September 2001
Seller ID: 24928
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, breathtaking facades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime "New Yorker" writer, and the magazine has sent its... View more info
By: Adeline Yen Mah
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Broadway: May 1999
Seller ID: 65828
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 in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she... View more info
By: Adeline Yen Mah
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Broadway: May 1999
Seller ID: 67911
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 in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she... View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group: January 2006
Seller ID: 27137
In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions on the hardcourt. Coach Bob Hurley had been working miracles at St. Anthony High School for over thirty years, winning state and national championships and offering his pl... View more info
By: Alex Debogorski
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Wiley: October 2010
Seller ID: 94184
Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, "Ice Road Truckers"The highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, "Ice Road Truckers" follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex shares tales of his adventures-and misadventures-in the north, and explain, in his own entertaining... View more info
By: Ali Wentworth
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: January 2013
Seller ID: 116029
An acclaimed comedic actress and writer, former Oprah regular, wife of political and media star George Stephanopoulos, and a mother who lets her two girls eat cotton candy before bed, Ali Wentworth rebelled against her blue-blood upbringing, embracing Hollywood, motorcycles, even a few wildly inappropriate marriage proposals. In Ali in Wonderland, she takes us through the looking glass: from a childhood among Washington's elite and a stint in a New England prep school... View more info
By: Alice Sebold
Price: $6.25
Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 2002
Seller ID: 74531
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their ... View more info
By: Alice Steinbach
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: March 2002
Seller ID: 82571
"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. "I had fallen into the habit of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." But who was she away from the people and things that defined her? In this exquisite book, Steinbach searches for the an... View more info
By: Alison Smith
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Scribner: February 2005
Seller ID: 12551
A luminous, true story, "Name All the Animals" is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family clinging to the memory of a lost child, and of a young woman struggling to define herself in the wake of his loss. As children, siblings Alison and Roy Smith were so close that their mother called them by one name, Alroy. But when Alison was fifteen, she woke one day to learn that Roy, eighteen, was dead. Heartbreaking but hopeful, this extraordin... View more info
By: Alysia Abbott
Price: $8.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: June 2014
Seller ID: 99318
After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation--few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene. He takes Alysia to raucous parties, pushes her in front of the microphone at poetry readings, and introduces her to a world of artists,... View more info