 | Center Cannot Hold, The: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.99 A courageous memoir, written by an amazing person. Schizophrenia did not keep Eyln Saks from attending Oxford and Harvard, or from becoming a professor and author.
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 | Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $0.01 Michael J. Fox views Parkinson's Disease as a mixed blessing.
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 | The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Stepping out from the shadow of his abusive father, Monty gentled the horses in his care, rather than beating them into submission.
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 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Her husband was an alcoholic, and she had ten children to raise. What to do? Evely Ryan responded by composing funny jingles to make ends meet.
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 | The Pact by Sampson Davis
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.41 Three teens in the inner city make a pact to graduate from medical school.
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 | Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.41 Mawi's story is even more powerful in person. See his web site to book him to speak at a school in your area.
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 | The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story by Yvonne S. Thornton
Buy used from: $0.01 A father channels the musical talent of his six daughters in order to pave the way for their education.
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 | Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother by Dennis Love
Buy used from: $0.01 Stevie Wonder's mother escaped an abusive relationship and extreme poverty, in order to provide for her three children.
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 | True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Buy used from: $3.99 A writing teacher volunteers his time at juvenile hall to work with the inmates.
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 | Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
Buy used from: $0.75 One woman's (strangely humorous) struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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 | Leaving Atlanta: A Novel by Tayari Jones
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $3.30 This book is fictional, based on the author's experience of growing up in Atlanta at the time of the child murders. It will break your heart.
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 | Somebody Else's Kids by Torey L. Hayden
Buy used from: $10.88 Assigned to teach a class of children who didn't fit anywhere else, this loving teacher finds a way to reach each one of them.
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 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Jeannette Walls
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.87 As this talented journalist reveals her unOrthodox childhood, it is a wonder that she survived.
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 | Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir by Edwin John Wintle
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.40 Every rebellious teenage girl should have an Uncle Eddy to shelter her.
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 | Blankets by Craig Thompson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.90 This memoir is a visual masterpiece and a very powerful story of love, loss, existentialism and a teenage boy's coming of age.
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 | Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Buy used from: $0.58 Another unique format for a memoir. The author might have a self-proclaimed "ordinary life," but she's not afraid to think outside of the box in terms of artistic creativity.
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 | Chasing America: Notes from a Rock 'n' Soul Integrationist by Dennis Watlington
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $0.98 Dennis Watlington's cyclic journey from addiction to achievement and back to addiction again...
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