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Altered memories of the Great War: Divergent narratives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada

Mark David Sheftall

About the Author Mark Sheftall is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Duke University. He specializes in th...

The fortune teller's kiss

Brenda Serotte

From Publishers Weekly Poet Serotte relives a childhood cataclysm in this culture-rich, affecting memoir, part of the Ame...

Tommyland

Tommy Lee

Review 'Tommyland is the world inhabited by the heavy metaller Tommy Lee... Appropriately, the opening chapter is constit...

Quotidiana

Patrick Madden

Review "Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . There is a religiosity here, though not the usual kin...

The Invention of Solitude

Paul Auster

Amazon.com Review Beginning with the deconstructed detective novels of the New York Trilogy, Paul Auster has proved hims...

In his own right: the political odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Joseph A. Palermo

From Publishers Weekly During the last years of his life from his Senate election in 1964 to his murder in 1968 Robert F....

Forever fat: essays by the Godfather

Lee Gutkind

From Publishers Weekly The godfather in question is the author, who was credited as a major advocate of "creative nonfict...

A Helluva High Note: Surviving Life, Love, and American Idol

Kara Dioguardi

About the Author Kara DioGuardi's songs have appeared on more than 159 million albums. She is a Grammy-nominated hitmaker,...

The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak: Volume 2

Agnieszka Latała, Jakub Gutenbaum

Review "When the children of the Holocaust speak, one must listen-then weep, pray, and cherish the memories of those who ...

From This Moment On

Shania Twain

Review “Packed with intimate details that may surprise even her most dedicated fans.” —EW.com ...

Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

Rob Lowe

Review "A lovely autobiography, equal parts dish and pathos."--Vanity Fair "[Lowe] writes viscerally and insightfully...He ...

The real Rosebud: the triumph of a Lakota woman

Marjorie Weinberg

From Rosebud Yellow Robe was born in 1907, the daughter of Chauncey Yellow Robe, a Lakota Sioux, and Lillian Springer, a...

Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All

Harlyn Aizley

From Publishers Weekly More than 15 years into the lesbian baby boom, Aizley's collection of first-person accounts by non...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Jenni Schaefer

About the Author Jenni Schaefer is an ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association and appears regularly on tel...

Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace

David Chanoff, Ejovi Nuwere

From Publishers Weekly By age 21, Nuwere had grown from a precocious child in Brooklyn's embattled Bed-Stuy neighborhood ...

Good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's German village

Mimi Schwartz

From Publishers Weekly When Schwartz's (Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed) father was born in 1898, half of his native Germ...

Red Azalea

Anchee Min

From This is an honest and frightening memoir of growing up in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution of the 196...

A world of light

Floyd Skloot

From Publishers Weekly In 1988, at the age of 41, Skloot caught a virus that severely damaged his brain. He lost most cog...

The Parisian jazz chronicles: an improvisational memoir

Michael Zwerin

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In his deliberately digressive memoir, Zwerin applies the style and spirit of imp...

John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks: with a Facsimile of The Suffolk Traveller, 1735 (Suffolk Records Society)

David Dymond, Jenny James, John Blatchly

Review A brilliant idea and a bonus is (John) Blatchly's excellent introduction. --Ancestors ...

Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi

Dean Faulkner Wells

Review "Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it i...

Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair

Gary David Goldberg

From Publishers Weekly Goldberg, a TV scriptwriter and producer, fondly recalls his rocky, improbable route to Hollywood ...

The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal

Laurie Notaro

From Publishers Weekly In her latest collection of essays, Notaro (The Idiot Girl's Action-Adventure Club) turns out a do...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: a memoir

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Norman Malcolm, Georg Henrik Wright

Review `Review from previous edition 'A reader does not need to care about philosophy to be excited by Mr Malcolm's book;...

Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances

Scott Brown

Review “Powerful stuff. . . .This isn’t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and ...

Scraping by in the big eighties

Natalia Rachel Singer

From Publishers Weekly This memoir of a woman's postcollege coming-of-age during the Reagan years is a book with an ident...

A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney (Life Writings of Frontier Women, Vol. 6) (Life Writings Frontier Women)

Charles M. Hatch, Helen Mar Whitney, Todd M. Compton

Review "This diary has it all. A unique and irreplaceable document, it has treasures in every paragraph." -- Lavina Field...

Living and Loving With Asperger Syndrome: Family Viewpoints

Estelle Mccabe, Jared Mccabe, Patrick Mccabe

About the Author Patrick McCabe is very well qualified to write on the subject of Asperger Syndrome because he has lived ...

Class act: the jazz life of choreographer Cholly Atkins

Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone

From Library Journal This is more than a factual biography of a great artist; it is a personal encounter with an excepti...

Das Nibelungenlied: Song of the Nibelungs

Professor Burton Raffel

Review "A marvelously readable version of Das Nibelungenlied."-Ronnie Apter, Central Michigan University (Ronnie Apter ) ...

Evasion

Crimethinc.

Review Evasion not only challenges the assumptions of what it means to survive, but also what it means to truly live. -- ...

For You Mom, Finally

Ruth Reichl

About the Author Ruth Reichl is the author of Comfort Me with Apples, Tender at the Bone, and Garlic and Sapphires. She h...

Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

Ruth Reichl

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The slender size of Reichl's memoir of her late mother's life belies its powerful ...

Come to the Edge: A Memoir

Christina Haag

Review “[Haag] doesn’t bow to tabloid sensationalism; instead, she gently dusts off her tender, aching ...

Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives Our History (Oral history series)

Georgina Napangardi, Janet Nakamarra Long

Language Notes Text: English ...

Nothing Was the Same

Kay Redfield Jamison

Review A Washington Post Best Book of the Year“A cleared-eyed view of illness and death, sanity and insanity, love a...

Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future

Robert Silverberg

Review "Where Silverberg goes today, science fiction will follow tomorrow." —Isaac Asimov "For all SF devotees...

Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary And Memoirs

John B. Romeiser

About the Author Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sent...

Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption

Christopher Kennedy Lawford

From Publishers Weekly [Signature]Reviewed by Sara NelsonPity the poor shelver who has to decide where to put this book. ...

William and Rosalie

Craig Hanley, Rosalie Schiff, William Schiff

From William Schiff is now 88, and his wife, Rosalie, is 84. Coauthor Craig Hanley spent months interviewing these Holoc...

The Last Soldiers of the King: Life in Wartime Italy, 1943-1945

Eugenio Corti

From the Publisher Translated by Manuela Arundel. Foreword by Carlo D' Este. About the Author Eugenio Corti ...

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee

Sarah Silverman

Amazon.com Review Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Sarah Silverman Dear Reader: My name is Sarah Silverman. I was onc...

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

Michael Oher

Review "I''d understand if some people out there felt like another re-telling of the Oher story was flogging a dead horse...

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Robert Stone

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. It's a long, strange trip that's navigated in this engaging memoir. Novelist Stone...

A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

George Konrad

From Publishers Weekly This powerful, highly literary memoir by a world-famous author—essayist and novelist Konr&#...

Vets Might Fly

James Herriot

Review There are funny cases, sad cases, farm animals and pets, downright farmers, ladies of refinement, hard-bitten NCOs...

Vet in Harness

James Herriot

Review He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is i...

Vet in a Spin

James Herriot

Review He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is i...

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