 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.00 What can be done with the human body after death? Organ donation, body farms - it's all here and it's all true.
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 | Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers by Amy Sutherland
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 | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.01 A friendship struck up in college that lasted throughout a lifetime, chronicled here in Patchett's memoir.
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 | What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love by Carole Radziwill
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Who knew this was about the Kennedy family? Radziwill is married to Jackie O's nephew. This is a moving behind-the-scenes story of her husband's close relationship with JFK Jr. and how they dealt with his death while fighting cancer.
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 | Annie's Garden Journal: Reflections on Roses, Weeds, Men, and Life by Annie Spiegelman
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 | House Calls and Hitching Posts by Dorcas Sharp Hoover
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.22 This engaging memoir was written by a doctor who set up shop among a mostly Amish community. Contains a respectful and fascinating inside look at their personal lives and habits.
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 | Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss
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 | Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 This is just a great read - no real plot, just chapters dealing with her family and the restaurant.
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 | A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Haven Kimmel has a great sense of humor and a wonderful recall! This is funny and touching.
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 | The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, Marion Crawford by Marion Crawford
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 | Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
Buy used from: $3.33 Take a walk down Memory Lane! This is a charming memoir of Hart's experiences living in New York City with a girlfriend while working at the prestigious Tiffany's jewelry store.
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 | Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.50 |
 | My Own Two Feet: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.24 |
 | Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Ehrlich
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.83 A year in the life of a Jewish woman's home. Especially appealing for those of us with very little knowledge of the meaning and reason for keeping kosher, celebrating Passover, and other Jewish traditions.
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| WHO GETS THE DRUMSTICK? by Helen Beardsley
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 | Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.42 |
 | As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (P.S.) by John Colapinto
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $4.13 When a circumcision accident maims one in a set of identical twin boys, the parents' seemingly best choice of action is to raise him as a "her". Unfortunately, it just wasn't that simple.
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 | The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.65 |
 | Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder (Signet) by Ann Rule
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
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 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
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 | Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.) by Eric Brende
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.99 True story of a man and his wife who go to live among a private religious group that eschews electricity and modern ways.
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| Upstairs at the White House;: My life with the First Ladies, by J. B West
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 | In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.50 Burnham's tragic story of being held hostage with her husband and other tourists in the Phillipines.
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 | Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $2.99 What it's really like to be a caring, responsible foster parent.
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 | Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.93 |
 | All My Patients are Under the Bed by Dr. louis J. Camuti
Buy used from: $7.54 The adventures of a New York City vet who specializes in feline patients. This doctor actually made house calls!
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 | Hollyhocks, Lambs, and Other Passions: A Memoir of Thornhill Farm by Ms. Dee Hardie
Buy used from: $7.00 |
 | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.08 Jacobs challenged himself to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z. Filled with bits of interesting trivia as well as his humorous true life stories.
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 | Ice Bound : A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Maryanne Vollers
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $1.99 |
 | Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation by Julie Salamon
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 This book will make you question the reality behind a perfect facade. Tragic and incredible story.
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 | If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Looking for Mary: (Or, the Blessed Mother and Me) (Compass) by Beverly Donofrio
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.01 The author of "The Lovely Bones" has written this moving memoir of her rape and assault as a college student.
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 | Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.93 |
 | Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery by Gail Griffith
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $0.41 |
 | Forever and Ever, Amen by Karol Jackowski
Buy used from: $0.75 |
 | The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Buy new: $39.68 / Used from: $23.79 I know, I know - you read this in elementary school. But the central themes in these books are timeless - family, right and wrong, financial struggles...
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 | White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One Kitchen by Walter Scheib
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.91 Hired by Hillary Clinton, fired by Laura Bush. Imagine working in the White House on 9/11.
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