 | Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.36 The author of this book created a beauty school in Afghanastan, in order to give Afghan women the ability to support their families financially and empower themselves.
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 | Notes from Nethers: Growing Up In A Sixties Commune by Sandra Lee Eugster
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $10.77 What would it be like to grow in a sixties commune?
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 | Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. by Anne Thomas Soffee
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $0.44 From English major to hair band enthusiast, to rock star journalist, Anne Thomas Soffee can always be counted on to view her life as an adventure.
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 | Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love by Anne Thomas Soffee
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.54 Need a cure for your broken heart? Try belly dancing!
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 | Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
Buy new: $16.31 / Used from: $8.98 Two college graduates decided to backpack across China in 1986. This decision led them into culture-shock, unpredictability, intrigue - and life-threatening danger.
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 | The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.65 Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties tracing back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. She grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea, playing knock-foot games and living in fear of the heartmen and neegee...
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 | But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous by Jancee Dunn
Buy used from: $3.05 A fun read with wry and astute observations.
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 | Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Capital Hill staffer Samantha Joyce is one of the most endearing characters that I have "met" in a work of fiction for a long time...
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 | Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $0.01 Okay, so as a librarian myself, this was more like stepping into my own life...
But the writing did ring true!
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 | Perishable: A Memoir by Dirk Jamison
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $0.75 His father quit his job and insisted that the family eat out of the dumpsters.
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 | The Rabbi's Daughter by Reva Mann
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $1.07 Caught between spiritual aspirations and secular desires, Reva's romantic interests represent the lust that she struggles with and the Law that she is trying to fulfill.
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 | Ten Points by Bill Strickland
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $1.92 Terrified of continuing the legacy of his father's abusive behavior, a father tries to outrun the demons from his past through cycling. Well-written, with an authentic voice and no-holds-barred glimpse of the author's fallibility and humanity.
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 | Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.02 A shocking and yet compassionately-told tale of what it was like for the author to grow up in a polygamous cult.
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 | Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang by Colton Simpson
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.97 What drew Colton Simpson into gang affiliation, and how can he extricate himself?
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 | Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore
Buy used from: $0.01 A candid, edgy tale of struggling with childhood obesity; many parts read like poetry.
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 | Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante by Ayun Halliday
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 | Mixed: My Life in Black and White by Angela Nissel
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.99 Growing up confused about issues of racial identity
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 | Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies. by Matt Rothschild
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.80 A tale of family dysfunction on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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 | Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 So the service was slow, your food was cold, and you're wondering how much to tip. Here's a peek into another perspective.
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 | Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $3.70 This book started out as a blog, but its popularity grew...
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 | Toast by Nigel Slater
Buy used from: $0.01 This memoir is artfully structured around culinary delicacies.
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 | Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story by Brendan Halpin
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $4.64 A teacher tries to positively impact children, despite being mired in beaurocracy.
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 | Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell
Buy used from: $0.42 Diary charting the experiences as a first-year teacher in a Chicago inner-city elementary school .
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 | Reporting Live by Lesley Stahl
Buy used from: $0.01 CBS News in the early years... a woman in a man's world...
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 | Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests by James A. Miller
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.00 What would it be like to star on Saturday Night Live?
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 | No Backup: My Life as a Female FBI Special Agent by Rosemary Dew
Buy used from: $0.01 Working for the FBI when females were first inducted was no picnic.
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 | Special Agent by Candice Delong
Buy used from: $0.01 A more positive view of being a female in the FBI, which includes personal safety tips.
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 | Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.01 As someone who's never desired entrance into a sorority, I found this fascinating. My favorite part was the final chapter, in which the author suggests methods of reform.
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 | Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.72 |
 | Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp by Stephanie Klein
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.76 Spent the summer at a fat camp... vicariously.
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 | Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor by Josh Wolk
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $0.05 The title says it all.
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 | Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting by Meredith Norton
Buy new: $9.25 / Used from: $0.01 Besides having the coolest book cover of all time, this memoir of struggling with cancer is both feisty and thought-provoking.
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 | Split: A Memoir of Divorce by Suzanne Finnamore
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $0.33 An honest account of the stages of grief that follow the death of a marriage.
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 | Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Stan Redding
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.01 This famous con artist started out as an enterprising child. Interesting, if a bit self-congratulatory.
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 | An Egg on Three Sticks by Jackie Fischer
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 What would it be like for a teenager to watch her mother's descent into madness? Although fictional, this book is so artfully crafted that it seems like a memoir.
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 | Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban: A Novel by Lisa Wixon
Buy used from: $0.01 This "fictional" novel is based on the author's first-hand experiences in Havana, as she witnessed poverty and the sex trade. Heartbreaking, but powerful.
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 | On Writing by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.27 Learn about his relationship with his wife and how he survived the accident that almost killed him.
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