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Blackbird
by Jennifer Lauck
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at …
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Still Waters
by Jennifer Lauck
Clutching her pink trunk filled with the relics of a lost childhood, twelve-year-old Jenny steps off a bus in Reno and into the wide-open future. …
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Prozac Nation
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
"A book that became a cultural touchstone." -- The New Yorker Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation …
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Undercurrents
by Martha Manning
Through her diary entries therapist Martha Manning tells how depression transformed her from a happy, healthy, and successful person to a suicidal sleepwalker and how …
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
"A memoir about childhood, relilience, and the trumphant power of storytelling."--From back cover.
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Tis
by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A …
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Magical Thinking
by Augusten Burroughs
From the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to …
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Dry
by Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs describes his experiences working in advertising in Manhattan and chronicles his battle with alcoholism.
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The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town.
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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking …
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Best Friends
by Samantha Glen
"Sinjin the badly burned black cat. . .who survived to welcome others home Victor the abandoned Australian Shepherd mix. . . the capo among dogs …
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The Rooms of Heaven
by Mary Allen
A riveting memoir that explores the uncharted territory between passion and addiction, grief and madness, this world and the next. "A love story, a memoir, …
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The Barn at the End of the World
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
O'Reilley, a Quaker raised as a Catholic, embarks on a year working on a sheep farm and visiting a Buddhist monastery in France.
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A Girl Named Zippy
by Haven Kimmel
The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early. When Haven Kimmel was …
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She Got Up Off the Couch
by Haven Kimmel
Kimmel's powerful storytelling is in evidence in this riveting continuation of Zippy's childhood--a story of risk-taking, motherly love, and small-town heroism.
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Show Me the Way
by Jennifer Lauck
"Carl Jung said, "Children are driven, unconsciously, in a direction that is intended to compensate for everything that was left unfulfilled in the life of …
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Name All the Animals
by Alison Smith
Alison Smith chronicles her family's struggle to overcome the death of her older brother, Roy, and discusses how every aspect of her life was impacted …
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The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled …