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Tuesdays with Morrie an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $10.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997

Seller ID: 267

ISBN: 0385484518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for yo...
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I Know why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1969

Seller ID: 1684

ISBN: 0394429869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignifie...
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The Spiral Staircase My Climb out of Darkness

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $4.80

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: 2061

ISBN: 0375413189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library; Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before—hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures.

Armstrong’s struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements—failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, given prop...
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David Brinkley A Memoir

By: Brinkley, David

Price: $4.49

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1995

Seller ID: 2086

ISBN: 0345374029

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Just how a young man growing up in a small southern town with only one one-hundred-watt A. M. Radio station and no network affiliation became one of the world's most respected broadcasters in the nation makes for a "grand and glorious adventure" in itself. Now, in this fascinating and charmingly candid memoir of a career spanning half a century, David Brinkley recollects from his own unique vantage point the remarkable, shaky beginnings of television news, the ever-changing social and political landscape of our country, and the colorful people who have crossed his path. He includes pri...
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Foreign Correspondence

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $2.59

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books/Doubleday: 1999, c1998.

Seller ID: 1263

ISBN: 0385483732

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

10% discount off sticker on front cover and pages are yellowed on edges. ; As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness...
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Running with Scissors a memoir

By: Burroughs, Augusten

Price: $2.99

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2002

Seller ID: 1542

ISBN: 031242227X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provi...
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The Kennedys an American drama

By: Collier, Peter and David Horowitz

Price: $4.69

Publisher: New York, Summit Books: 1984

Seller ID: 1433

ISBN: 0671447939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

A national bestseller based on hundreds of interviews with family members and associates, archival research, and previously unused sources reveals the all-too-human saga behind a high profile political family.
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If I Could Live My Life Again I'D Begin Today and Then...

By: Cyrano De Words-U-Lac

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Salem, VA, Rhymeo Ink: 1996

Seller ID: 1623

ISBN: 1562920502

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

If you want to enjoy life to the fullest, you'll treasure this unique collection of inspiring proverbs. Eash on is a pointed, two-line motivatore that encourages yu to make the most of every moment. And because they are simple and clever, you'll remember them when you need them most!
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In Contempt

By: Darden, Christopher

Price: $5.39

Publisher: New York, Regan Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2294

ISBN: 0060391839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In Contempt is an unflinching look at what the television cameras could not show: behind-the-scenes meetings, the deteriorating relationships between the defense and prosecution teams, the taunting, baiting, and pushing matches between Darden and Simpson, the intimate relationship between Darden and Marcia Clark, and the candid factors behind Darden's controversial decision for Simpson to try on the infamous glove, and much more.

Out of the sensational frenzy of "the trial of the century" comes this haunting memoir of duty, justice, and the powerful undertow of American racism. A st...
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An Honorable Defeat The Last Days of the Confederate Government

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $6.86

Publisher: San Diego, CA, Harcourt, Inc.: 2001

Seller ID: 2173

ISBN: 0156007487

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions for the South: Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and the practical and warm General John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered re...
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Too Much Money A Novel

By: Dunne, Dominick

Price: $6.49

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 2009

Seller ID: 1231

ISBN: 0609603876

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble—$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him.

The stress of the lawsuit makes it d...
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Above and Beyond

By: editors Of Time-Life Books

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1992

Seller ID: 424

ISBN: 0809477351

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

143 pages; A collection of stories about heroes and courage; those that go above and beyond.
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A Million Little Pieces

By: Frey, James

Price: $2.99

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 2004

Seller ID: 1649

ISBN: 1400031087

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facilityís doctors were shocked he was still alive. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recalls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughsís Junky.
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Eat, Pray, Love one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia

By: Gilbert, Elizabeth

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2006

Seller ID: 916

ISBN: 0143038419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and ...
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Eat, Pray, Love one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia

By: Gilbert, Elizabeth

Price: $2.49

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2006

Seller ID: 1547

ISBN: 0143038419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and set out to explore three different aspects of her nature, against the backdrop of three different cultures: pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and on the Indonesian island of Bali, a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.
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Marion Jones The Fastest Woman in the World

By: Gutman, Bill

Price: $6.99

Publisher: New York, An Archway Paperback: 2000

Seller ID: 2305

ISBN: 074341876X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Ex-Library; Examines the life and career of the amazing track star who set a goal to come home from the Sydney Olympics with a record five gold medals in track and field events.
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Education of a Wandering Man

By: L'Amour, Louis

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Bantam: 1989

Seller ID: 268

ISBN: 0553057030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Missing dust-jacket. ; From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction,Education of a Wandering Manmixes authentic frontier drama--suc...
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Ann Frank's Story Her Life Retold for Children

By: Lee, Carol Ann

Price: $6.78

Publisher: Canada, Troll: 2002

Seller ID: 2124

ISBN: 0816774277

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The Diary of Anne Frank is read and loved by children throughout the world. Yet few of those readers know what life was really like for the young Jewish girl before and after she wrote her famous diary.

Written in a lively yet sympathetic style, Anne Frank's Story follows Anne Frank from her birth in Germany and her happy childhood in Amsterdam through the years she and her family spent in hiding from the Nazis, to her imprisonment and eventual death in the concentration camps.

"This book gives children the opportunity to meet Anne Frank, to know her story and her destiny, and to lea...
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Angela's Ashes a memoir

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 1471

ISBN: 0684874350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for holiday dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compasison, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. As Mary Breasted, author of Why Should You Doubt Me Now said: "Frank McCourt's book is deeply moving...
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'Tis a memoir

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $5.19

Publisher: New York, NY, Scribner: 1999

Seller ID: 1643

ISBN: 0684848783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

This is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding.

When Frank returns to America in 1953, he...
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