 | '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, |
 | 100 Missions North: A Fighter Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War
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by Brassey's Inc
Paperback
(01 April, 2003)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: One of the best: Ken Bell has done an great job of communcating both the story of those who sacrificed so much over North Vietnam and the feel of being there. |
 | 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 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 Language Older Than Words
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by Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Paperback
(01 March, 2004)
(48 reviews)
Customer Review: Connection: This is one of the most profoundly moving books I've ever read. I absolutely encourage everyone to buy it and read it, |
 | 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 Million Little Pieces
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by Nan A. Talese
Hardcover
(15 April, 2003)
(219 reviews)
Editorial Review: The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." |
 | 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, |
 | Agathe von Trapp: Memories Before and After The Sound of Music
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by Providence House Publishers
Hardcover
(01 July, 2003)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Ver y Good: It was definately interesting to read the von trapp's story from one of the children's point of views. It was very nice to learn more about Agathe and Georg von Trapp. |
 | Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
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by Gotham
Hardcover
(01 August, 2003)
(22 reviews)
Customer Review: Not so intimate, or romantic: Sarah Turnbull has written a book that will appeal particularly to people familiar with the typical Australian lifestyle. |
 | Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People : The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler
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by HarperEntertainment
Hardcover
(06 May, 2003)
(20 reviews)
Customer Review: A GREAT BOOK ABOUT A GOOD MAN: Like a previous reveiw said this book was a lot of fun to read anybody that has a fair interest in poker especially texas holdem has heard about amarillo slim. |
 | American by Choice
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by Fire Dreams Publishing
Hardcover
(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, |
 | An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
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by Random House
Hardcover
(01 May, 2001)
(9 reviews)
Editorial Review: Tom Brokaw has turned his popular book The Greatest Generation into a trilogy. After that first success came The Greatest Generation Speaks. Now there's An Album of Memories, a collection of letters and photos sent to Brokaw by readers who grew up during the Depression and came of age during World War II. |
 | An Unfinished Marriage
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by Broadway
Paperback
(11 March, 2003)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: middle-age crisis: I like both this book and Joan's first book, A Year by the sea. I like her written style and her honesty. When I read this book, |
 | Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
(30 September, 2004)
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 | Appetites: Why Women Want
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by Counterpoint Press
Hardcover
(15 April, 2003)
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: The final and remarkable book of best-selling author Caroline Knapp underlines her gift of leveraging her life experiences into provocative lessons. On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating&# |
 | Autobiography of a Face
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by Perennial
Paperback
(18 March, 2003)
(50 reviews)
Customer Review: I had Ewing's sarcoma & related to Lucy feeling all alone.: I read Lucy's book several years ago, all in one day. Her words, |
 | Ava's Man
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by Vintage
Paperback
(13 August, 2002)
(56 reviews)
Customer Review: THE STORY OF A MAN - MAGNIFICENTLY TOLD: Few can evoke an accurate image of the Deep South. Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Bragg (All Over But The Shoutin') does more than evoke it, |
 | Bad Girl : Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent
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by Rugged Land
Hardcover
(17 August, 2004)
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 | Ball Four
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by Wiley
Paperback
(12 July, 1990)
(75 reviews)
Editorial Review: As a player, former hurler Jim Bouton did nothing half-way; he threw so hard he'd lose his cap on almost every pitch. In the early '70s, he tossed off one of the funniest, most revealing, insider's takes on baseball life in Ball Four, |
 | Barry Sanders: Now You See Him : His Story in His Own Words
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by Emmis Books
Hardcover
(01 November, 2003)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Barry Sanders story...short and sweet: The newly elected Hall of Fame running back, Barry Sanders, was always a man of many words and his recently released autobiography is fitting in its 139 page, |
 | Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom
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by Wiley
Hardcover
(30 September, 2002)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: A Timely Topic, A Powerful and Exciting Book: I saw the Court-TV production of CHASING FREEDOM this past Monday (Jan 19). Appropriately, |
 | Best Damn Garage in Town: The World According to Smokey
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by Carbon Press, LC
Paperback
(01 July, 2001)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Tellin it like it is: Smokey tells it just like he sees it. No political correctness here. If he thinks something stinks, he says so. |
 | Beyond the Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures
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by Little Brown UK Ltd
Paperback
(01 March, 2004)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Well-done, but keep a grain of salt handy.: A fantastic book with lots of otherwise unavailable information. A lot of the same ground(at least initially) was covered by B-S in THE LAST HABSBURG. |
 | 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, |
 | Bill Bryson's African Diary
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by Broadway
Hardcover
(03 December, 2002)
(20 reviews)
Customer Review: too short but fun bit of travel writing for a good cause: Bill Bryson is a fantastic travel writer, and made this very very short book (only 49 pages!) |
 | Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS
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by Aegis Consulting Group
Paperback
(July, 2002)
(14 reviews)
Customer Review: Near the top in terms of German Memoirs: I have read several German memoirs - Soldat, The Forgotten Soldier, In Deadly Combat - plus several other studies of the Waffen SS, |
 | Blankets
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by Top Shelf Productions
Paperback
(10 December, 2004)
(41 reviews)
Customer Review: A Truly Amazing Experience: This is going to be brief because I'm in agreement with most of the others here. It should be known that I never write reviews here on amazon, |
 | Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch : Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
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by Regan Books
Hardcover
(02 March, 2004)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: "Bad Neighborhood," good book: "Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales From A Bad Neighborhood" is probably the best title so far this year. |
 | Blindsided : Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
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by HarperCollins
Hardcover
(30 January, 2004)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: In this moving and engrossing memoir, veteran television news producer Richard Cohen relates a life spent dealing with multiple sclerosis, first diagnosed when he was 25 years old and just getting started in the competitive world of broadcast journalism. |
 | Blood Horses : Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
(01 April, 2004)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: One man's story about Dad, and a lot of stuff about horses: This is a breath-taking book. I picked it up at the library, thinking it was about race horses. |
 | Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
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by Greenhill Books
Hardcover
(01 October, 2002)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Interesting Memoir of the Eastern Front: Koschorrek's work serves as an interesting memoir of an aspect of World War II not often discussed in the West. |
 | 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. |
 | Bono: His Life, Music, and Passions
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by Citadel Press
Hardcover
(01 February, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Objective Biography: For any fan, the biography of their idol is usually found wanting. As a U2 fan and Bono enthusiast, it's difficult for me to give a good review on a biography of Bono simply because it's irrelevant for me to own a biography on Bono. |
 | 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.) |
 | Burned Alive : A Victim of the Law of Men
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by Warner Books
Hardcover
(11 May, 2004)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Great book to read and share with friends and family: I could not put this book down once I started to read it. It captured my attention from the first page. |
 | Che: Self Portrait
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by Ocean Press
Paperback
(01 December, 2003)
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 | Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics)
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by Perennial
Paperback
(28 May, 2002)
(113 reviews)
Customer Review: A heartwarming classic for readers young and old...: I haven't seen the new movie version with Steve Martin--I understand it has received mixed reviews and is quite different from this book. |
 | China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
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by PublicAffairs
Hardcover
(04 May, 2004)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Great story by a great man during great times: James and Jeffrey Lilley are extraordinary people who lived in extraordinary places. |
 | Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
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by Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback
(09 April, 2002)
(71 reviews)
Customer Review: Danger ... Food Exploding!: Comfort Me with Apples reads like a continuation of Tender at the Bone (a fantastic memoir). I found myself enjoying it but at the same time, |
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