 | '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 Brush with Darkness : Learning to Paint After Losing My Sight
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by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Hardcover
(01 October, 2004)
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 | 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 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 Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(03 June, 2003)
(37 reviews)
Customer Review: Food, Travel and a Little Romance: Just finished reading "A Thousand Days in Venice" and am now ready to travel to Italy. Seriously, |
 | 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, |
 | A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
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by Broadway
Paperback
(15 August, 2000)
(84 reviews)
Customer Review: A beautifully written book (autobiographical maybe? ): This short, easy to read book jumped out at me at the local library, possibly because of its fashionably small size. |
 | 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. |
 | America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
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by William Morrow & Company
Hardcover
(23 September, 2003)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Well researched and well written, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines is a powerful and important book. Starting with Pocahontas and Eleanor Dare (the first female colonist), |
 | American Heroines : The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
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by William Morrow
Hardcover
(26 October, 2004)
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 | 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, |
 | 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, |
 | Angelina Jolie's: Notes from My Travels
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by Pocket
Paperback
(01 October, 2003)
(21 reviews)
Customer Review: An Inspiring Journey: Reaching towards the end, sadness takes over as I did not want the journey of the true meaning of humanity to end. |
 | 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, |
 | 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, |
 | Autobiography of a Fat Bride : True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
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by Villard
Paperback
(08 July, 2003)
(28 reviews)
Customer Review: very very funny new writer: Notaro is a very promising new voice on the non fiction scene. This book is very funny but not quite as hilarious as her last one Idiot Girls. |
 | Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them
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by WaterBrook Press
Paperback
(17 August, 1999)
(31 reviews)
Editorial Review: Jezebel and Delilah have plenty to teach contemporary Christian women, according to Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them. In this self-help book, Liz Curtis Higgs tells fictionalized, contemporary stories based on the lives of biblical characters including Eve, Potiphar's Wife, and the Woman at the Well. |
 | Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
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by Riverhead Books
Paperback
(01 January, 2002)
(67 reviews) 
Customer Review: Praise for Black, White, and Jewish!: As soon as I realized that Black, White, and Jewish was by the same author who contributed to one of my all time favorite essays, |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Blue Days, Black Nights : A Memoir
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by Advocate Books
Hardcover
(15 October, 2004)
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 | 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. |
 | But He Was Good to His Mother : The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
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by Gefen Publishing House, Ltd
Paperback
(February, 2000)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: great book and a fun reading: this book is a great academic book mixed with fun storytelling. |
 | 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, |
 | Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
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by Villard
Hardcover
(13 April, 2004)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: More than a Jewel Thief: I read this book as it received a lot of publicity on initial release. I didn't find it to be a fast, compelling story of a dangerous jewel thief. |
 | Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
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by Walker & Company
Hardcover
(01 October, 2003)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: An informed and informative biographical recounting: Nicholas Thomas' Cook is no light coverage of historical hightligts, but a seriously informed and informative biographical recounting of the famous ocean voyageur of the 1700s. |
 | Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
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by ReganBooks
Paperback
(03 February, 2004)
(31 reviews)
Customer Review: Inmates are people first, prisoners second: This book has already caused a stir for all the wrong reasons. Various victims' rights groups have taken issue with this book for the following reasons: (a) that Wally Lamb would devote his time to, |
 | Deadly American Beauty: A True Story of Passion, Adultery, and Murder (St. Martin's
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by St. Martin's Press
Mass Market Paperback
(02 March, 2004)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Felt Something Was Missing: I don't know if it was the content, the writing, or Kristen Rossum's soul, but this book just didn't come across to me as very memorable. |
 | Desert Queen : The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings,
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by Anchor
Paperback
(15 June, 1999)
(28 reviews)
Customer Review: A somewhat lame retelling of an extraordinary life: As the crisis in the Middle East continues, I find myself trying to explore how we got here. |
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