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Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Picador: 2006

Seller ID: 0138511

ISBN: 0312425414

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The #1 "New York Times "Bestseller An "Entertainment Weekly" Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture"" "Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor, living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all ye...
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Infidel (Heather's Picks)

By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Atria: 2013

Seller ID: 0117737

ISBN: 0743289692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament.

Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, fem...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group: 2003

Seller ID: 0016714

ISBN: 081297106X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become ...
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Dear World

By: Bana Alabed

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2017

Seller ID: 0137530

ISBN: 150117844X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Dreams From My Father

By: Barack Obama

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Three Rivers Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 0074139

ISBN: 1400082773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, a...
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

By: Barbara K Lipska

Price: $7.99

Publisher: HMH: 2018

Seller ID: 0144589

ISBN: 1328787303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Get To The Heart (Barbara Mandrell)

By: Barbara Mandrell

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam: 1991

Seller ID: 0000365

ISBN: 0553292439

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

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Audition

By: Barbara Walters

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Random House: 2008

Seller ID: 0057159

ISBN: 030726646X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The Elusive Mr. Pond

By: Barry Gough

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre: 2014

Seller ID: 0134472

ISBN: 1771620390

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Lost Son: A Life In Pursuit Of Justice

By: Bernard B Kerik

Price: $7.99

Publisher: ReganBooks: 2001

Seller ID: 0075256

ISBN: 0060009012

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Soul Surfer

By: Bethany Hamilton

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 2011

Seller ID: 0092412

ISBN: 1439165793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"She lost her arm in a shark attack and nearly died, but she never lost her faith. Now a major motion picture, "Soul Surfer "is the moving story of Bethany Hamilton's triumphant return to competitive surfing and has continued to be a beacon of inspiration to all who hear it."

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? Or that nothing--not even the loss of her arm--could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark's stealth attack with the calm of a teenage gi...
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For the Love of a Child [Betty Mahmoody]

By: Betty Mahmoody

Price: $7.99

Publisher: St. Martin's: 1992

Seller ID: 0053111

ISBN: 0312081944

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

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To See You Again (A True Story Of Love In A Time)

By: Betty Schimmel

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Dutton: 1999

Seller ID: 0096863

ISBN: 052594480X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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An XL Life

By: Bigboy

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Cash Money Content: 2011

Seller ID: 0104839

ISBN: 1936399210

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid (Bill Bryson)

By: Bill Bryson

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Anchor: 2007

Seller ID: 0066148

ISBN: 0385661622

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny."

Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the ...
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20/20

By: Bill Hughes

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Gorham: 2008

Seller ID: 0116122

ISBN: 1413437958

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Imagine skiing down a slope on Mt. Hood when one ski tangles with an obstruction under the snow. While cartwheeling down the hill, your whole life flashes before your eyes and that's the last thing you can remember as you awaken twenty years later. That happened to Hugh Williams and this book relates the novel and unusual manner in which he was able to retrieve the highlights of those years he missed. He enters into an agreement with the staff of the nursing home where he had been confined for so many years. Hugh had lots to share with his caretakers as he had taken so many wonderful trips in ...
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A Spirited Life

By: Bob Andelman

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Press: 2005

Seller ID: 0142606

ISBN: 1595820116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

This beautifully illustrated biography explores the fascinating life of Will Eisner, detailing a career that exceeds six decades in which Eisner spearheaded the cause of comics for adult readers and created the first widely accepted graphic novel, A Contract with God. Eisner's influence has been felt by such diverse talents as Batman creator Bob Kane and Jack Kirby. Underground comics legend R. Crumb and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Art Spiegelman have hailed Eisner's cinematic approach to comics and his enduring character The Spirit. From his childhood to educating Arm...
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