 | "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
(01 April, 1997)
(156 reviews) 
Editorial Review: A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to anautobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of receivedwisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88)cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, |
 | 'Tis Herself : A Memoir
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(10 March, 2004)
(24 reviews) 
Customer Review: THAT RED HEAD OF HERS IS NO LIE!: Those are more than just lines from Barry Fitzgerald in "The Quiet Man" film of 1952. Whether she is Mary Kate Danaher or Katie McLintock on that silver screen, |
 | A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
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Paperback
(01 September, 1995)
(1362 reviews)
Editorial Review: David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, |
 | A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library
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by Modern Library
Hardcover
(12 November, 1996)
(23 reviews) 
Customer Review: Warm & Heartfelt: Truman Capote does an amazing job of telling us three delightful stories of a young boy's favorite Christmas & |
 | A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3
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by Broadway
Paperback
(03 September, 2002)
(125 reviews)
Customer Review: Generational Differences in Opinion?: I recommended this book as a selection for our neighborhood book club, thinking that everyone would love it, |
 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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by Vintage
Paperback
(13 February, 2001)
(741 reviews) 
Customer Review: Maybe I'm too old for this book: Eggers is clearly a fine writer with a lot of talent but this book was tedious too many times for my taste. |
 | A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
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by Plume Books
Paperback
(05 September, 2000)
(164 reviews)
Customer Review: A Great Third Installment: If you have read the two previous books, "A Child Called 'It'" and "The Lost Boy", I highly recommend that you read "A Man Named Dave." |
 | A Man Of Faith : The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush
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by W Publishing Group
Hardcover
(14 April, 2004)
(17 reviews)
Customer Review: Who has actually read this book?: There are some reviews here that appear to be written by those who plainly dislike Pres. Bush but did not read this book. |
 | A Million Little Pieces
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by Anchor
Paperback
(11 May, 2004)
(219 reviews)
Customer Review: Gritty story rings true: 'A Million Little Pieces', James Frey's stylishly different memoir, recounts his arrival and subsequent rehabilitation at a clinic. |
 | A Paper Life
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by HarperEntertainment
Hardcover
(12 October, 2004)
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 | A Pirate Looks at Fifty
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by Fawcett
Paperback
(01 May, 1999)
(224 reviews)
Customer Review: Jimmy has done better: It's worrisome when an author admits outright that he's attempting to hash out a book to fulfill a contract. |
 | A Tale of Love and Darkness
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by Harcourt
Hardcover
(15 November, 2004)
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 | A Walk on the Beach : Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman
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by Broadway
Hardcover
(13 April, 2004)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: The divine trinity...: While A Walk On The Beach represents the final part of a divine trinity of books, the internal divine trinity is the coming together of the two Joans in the presence of the Sea - which has always been a metaphor for Consciousness, |
 | Adam Copeland On Edge
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by World Wrestling Entertainment
Hardcover
(02 November, 2004)
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 | Alexander Hamilton
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by Penguin Books
Hardcover
(26 April, 2004)
(51 reviews)
Editorial Review: Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall, Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. |
 | Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past
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by Overlook Press
Hardcover
(03 August, 2004)
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 | American Soldier
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by ReganBooks
Hardcover
(03 August, 2004)
Editorial Review: As Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, Tommy Franks led the American and Coalition forces to victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Unsurprisingly, the portions of American Soldier covering these wars are the most interesting because they combine military maneuvers, |
 | American Writers At Home
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by Library of America
Hardcover
(14 October, 2004)
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 | An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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by Vintage
Paperback
(14 January, 1997)
(207 reviews)
Editorial Review: In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, |
 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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by Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
(01 June, 1993)
(436 reviews)
Editorial Review: A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, |
 | Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
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by Atria
Hardcover
(28 October, 2003)
(17 reviews)
Customer Review: An Elegant Spirit -that she is...: The different accounts that Sean Hepburn-Ferrer's has shared with us are touching, private and intimate and give a true picture of the amazing person Audrey Hepburn was. |
 | Autobiography of Malcolm X
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by Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
(12 October, 1987)
(214 reviews)
Editorial Review: Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, |
 | Ben Hogan : An American Life
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by Doubleday
Hardcover
(11 May, 2004)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: An Extraordinary Biography of a Complex Champion: Kudos to James Dodson, who enthralls readers with his account of the life of golfing legend Ben Hogan. |
 | Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(01 July, 2003)
(98 reviews)
Editorial Review: Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, |
 | Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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by Atria
Hardcover
(07 September, 2004)
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 | Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life
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by Miramax Books
Hardcover
(10 May, 2004)
(53 reviews)
Editorial Review: Veteran newsman and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert is known for his direct and unpretentious style and in this charming memoir he explains why. Russert's father is profiled as a plainspoken World War II veteran who worked two blue-collar jobs while raising four kids in South Buffalo but the elder Russert's lessons on how to live an honest, |
 | Blue Blood
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by Riverhead Books
Hardcover
(12 April, 2004)
(54 reviews)
Editorial Review: As a Harvard graduate and regular writer for the New Yorker, Edward Conlon is a little different from most of his fellow New York City cops. And the stories he tells in his compelling memoir Blue Blood are miles away from the commonly told Hollywood-style police tales that are always action packed but rarely tethered to reality. |
 | Broken Music: A Memoir
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by The Dial Press
Hardcover
(27 October, 2003)
(52 reviews)
Customer Review: Nice Effort, Greedy Editor: I read this book on Christmas Day and finally feel like I can give it a fair review (6 months later.) |
 | Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist
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by Main Street Books
Paperback
(18 August, 1996)
(60 reviews)
Customer Review: What You Can Learn From This Book: I just read the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. This book is a great supplement to that decidedly more technical text, |
 | Caddy For Life : The Bruce Edwards Story
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by Little, Brown
Hardcover
(06 April, 2004)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: "A Life Well Lived": I read John Feinstein's account of Bruce Edwards life with a sense of both sadness and joy.Sadness in knowing that a great man has left his family, |
 | Carolyn 101 : Business Lessons from The Apprentice's Straight Shooter
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by Fireside
Hardcover
(05 October, 2004)
Editorial Review: Smart, direct, precise. These are adjectives viewers of NBC's hit reality show, The Apprentice might use to describe Donald Trump's left-hand woman, Carolyn Kepcher. Kepcher is a tough judge who can make or break hopeful contestants vying to get hired by Trump. |
 | Cary Grant : A Biography
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by Harmony
Hardcover
(21 September, 2004)
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 | Catch This! : Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(30 September, 2004)
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 | Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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by Grove/Atlantic
Paperback
(01 April, 1998)
(90 reviews)
Customer Review: The Scrupulous account of a life of a great revolutionary: This meticulously researched and clearly written biography of Che gives the reader all one wanted to know about the life and history of the revered revolutionary. |
 | Chronicles, Vol. 1
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(05 October, 2004)
Editorial Review: One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, |
 | Complete Book of U.S. Presidents : From George Washington to George W. Bush
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by Gramercy
Hardcover
(06 April, 1997)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: This is the consummate guide to the political and personal lives of every U. S. president through Bill Clinton. Arranged chronologically, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents elaborates not only on the major accomplishments and events of their terms, |
 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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by Picador USA
Paperback
(01 April, 2003)
(61 reviews)
Customer Review: A "Must Read" Written By A Harvard Surgeon: If you have ever been a surgical patient, or expect you might become one in the future, |
 | Confessions of a Tax Collector : One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS
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by HarperCollins
Hardcover
(02 March, 2004)
(21 reviews)
Editorial Review: Imagine if Brad Meltzer or John Grisham's first book had been a memoir about working for the Internal Revenue Service and you have an idea of just how thrilling Richard Yancey's Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS really is. |
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