 | Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers by Amy Sutherland
Buy used from: $2.83 Make a huge commitment and go to school to learn to train and care for exotic animals.
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 | Girl Cook: A Novel by Hannah McCouch
Buy used from: $0.01 The story of a woman trying to break through the "boy's club" of chefs.
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 | P.S. Your Not Listening
Buy used from: $3.75 The beginnings of special ed classes in mainstream schools. This woman started with NO known lesson plan and no other help in the classroom.
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 | The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma Mclaughlin
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.01 Think being a nanny is easy?
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 | Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.01 What can your housekeeper tell about you when you're not there?
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 | Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.11 What it's really like to be a foster parent.
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 | Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $0.45 What can your waitress tell about you as a customer?
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 | Apollo 13 by James Lovell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.44 More intimate look than the movie at what it's like to be a real astronaut or an astronaut's wife.
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 | Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns by Cheryl L. Reed
Buy used from: $1.99 Different nuns have different kinds of communities with different sorts of beliefs and lifestyles. Fascinating.
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 | All My Patients are Under the Bed by Dr. Louis J. Camuti
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $0.01 True story of a vet that makes house calls in New York City.
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 | A Working Stiff's Manifesto: Confessions of a Wage Slave by Iain Levison
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $0.54 So many low-wage jobs to choose from! Fish cutter, moving man, temp worker... he's experienced a lot.
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 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy used from: $0.01 This author travelled around the country, trying to find a job and an affordable place to live on minimum wage. She worked as a waitress, a house cleaner and a Wal-mart employee.
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 | Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter by Elizabeth Hess
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $2.04 Shelter workers handle so many different aspects of animal welfare. Besides working with adoptions, this book takes you on a raid of a puppy mill, into the courtroom for a cruelty case, behind the scenes in the euthenasia room, and into the homes of these devoted people.
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 | Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.30 Training and working as a voluntary EMT.
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 | Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital by Dominick Bosco
Buy used from: $1.94 Working in a mental hospital (as a therapist, psych tech, administrator, nurse, etc.).
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 | Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $0.31 Factory worker for GM in Flint, Michigan.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A Japanese child is sold from her parents and grows up learning how to be a geisha.
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 | 21 Dog Years : A Cube Dweller's Tale by Mike Daisey
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $2.34 Working for Amazon.com in dot-com hell!
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 | Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic by Peter Korn
Buy used from: $2.29 What is it like to work at a women's health center?
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| Upstairs at the White House;: My life with the First Ladies, by J. B West
Buy used from: $0.01 Work as the Chief Usher at the White House through several administrations.
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 | A Little Work : Behind the Doors of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon by Z. Paul Lorenc
Buy used from: $2.96 Plastic surgeon
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 | House Calls And Hitching Posts by Dorcas Sharp Hoover
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $1.15 A doctor's memoirs of serving an Amish community.
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 | The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, Marion Crawford by Jennie Bond
Buy used from: $5.98 |
| 20 Years in the Secret Service; My Life With Five Presidents by Rufus W. Youngblood
Buy used from: $8.71 |
 | White House Nannies by Barbara Kline
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground by Tim Matson
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $2.65 |
 | Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
Buy used from: $2.86 Spending a summer working at the world famous Tiffany's jewelry store.
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 | Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.40 |
 | Stronger Than Dirt: How One Urban Couple Grew a Business, a Family, and a New Way of Life from the Ground Up by Kim Schaye
Buy used from: $1.99 Become a farmer!
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 | Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.) by Pete Jordan
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.65 |
 | How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 Be a barista!
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 | Deadliest Catch - Season 1 (5 Disc Set)
Buy used from: $12.25 See what it's like to be a professional fisherman.
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 | Discovery Channel's - Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe: Avian Vomitologist / Turkey Farmer / Potato Farmer
EEEwww!
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 | The Farmer's Wife
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $24.83 Try to save your farm by filing Chapter 12 (debt restructuring), continuing to work the farm while you and your husband work off the farm. The additional pressures of children and a struggling marriage add to their stress.
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 | A League of Their Own
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.65 Women's baseball players.
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 | Rock Star
Buy used from: $1.75 Become a rock star overnight!
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 | Clockwatchers
Buy used from: $3.90 Temping.
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 | Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY
Buy used from: $6.05 New York firefighters.
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 | National Geographic: Inside the U.S. Secret Service
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $14.44 |
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