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Confessions of a Video Vixen

By: Steffans, Karrine

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' go ... more

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21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com

By: Daisey, Mike

"Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious lov ... more

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Connected: The Surprising Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Ou

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Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and F ...

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Fortunate Son

By Ponce de Leon, Charles L.

elvis Presley was celebrity's perfect storm. His sole but substantial contribution was talent, a fact Charles L. Ponce de Leon is careful to demonstrate throughout his wonderfully contextual Fortunate Son. even as the moments of lucidity necessary to exer ...

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The Madoff Chronicles

By Ross, Brian

After the news broke of Bernie Madoff's arrest on December 11, 2008, the facts were hard to grasp. Madoff claimed to have stolen fifty billion dollars; the sum seemed impossibly large. But of course it wasn't impossible. And that was only the beginning of the story. As chie ...

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Strength in What Remains

By Kidder, Tracy

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the n ...

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The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time

By Publishing, Britannica Educational

It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn't what you know, but who you know. The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Concise but information-packed biographies detail the ...

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The Kids Are All Right

By Welch, Diana / Welch, Liz / Welch, Amanda

“The Welch kids grew up like secret agents. Orphans and adventurers in Reagan’s ’80s, young Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana were everywhere and nowhere: bluffing their way into nightclubs (when they shouldn’t even have been ...

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Palm Sunday

By Vonnegut, Kurt

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist&qu ...

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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

By De Lisle, Leanda

Leanda de Lisle is the author of After elizabeth. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she earned a master of arts degree in modern history. A successful journalist and broadcaster, she has been a columnist for The Spectato ...

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The Dark Threads

By Davison, Jean

The true story of how a bright teenager was transformed into a zombie thanks to a cocktail of drugs and electric shock treatment for an illness she never had. Jean Davison lost years of her life when doctors misdiagnosed her mental state as chronic schizophrenia. Sucked into ...

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Weekends at Bellevue

By Holland, Julie

Julie Holland, M.D., is a psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology. An assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, she spent her weekends running the psychiatric emergency room at Bellevue Hospital for nine years. She i ...

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Barack Obama : A Pocket Biography of Our 44th President

By Niven, Steven J

Affordable, readable, and indispensable, this pocket biography of Barack Obama allows you to put the story of our 44th President right in your back pocket. Written in a clear and concise style, this biography is accessible for anyone interested in a brief yet thorough ...

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The Falcon

By Tanner, John

John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified. ...

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Selected Writings

By Marti, Jose

José Martiacute (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in Ne ...

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Fear of Fifty

By Jong, Erica

Seducing the Demon has introduced erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a New York Times bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword.
In Fear o ...

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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

By Pakula, Hannah

With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World ...

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Redeeming Features

By Haslam, Nicholas

Nicholas Haslam is an interior designer and the author of Sheer Opulence. He has been a contributing editor at British Vogue and Tatler for many years and also writes for The World of Interiors and The Spectator. ...

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The F Word: How to Survive Your Family

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Take it from a man whose family background includes brawls, visits from "aliens," star-billing on FBI wanted posters, and, oh yes, an altercation with the Swedish Mafia -- families can be brutal! But because we all have one, Louie Anderson has written this honest, funny, and ...

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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

By Gayford, Martin

This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Includes 60 B&W reproductions of the artists ...

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My Delicious Life with Paula Deen

By Groover, Michael

In this heartfelt memoir, Michael Groover tells his side of the story, from his life as a single father to his fairy tale life with Paula Deen. ...

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Luck of O'Reilly: A Biography of Tony O'Reilly

By Fallon, Ivan

Filled with star-studded names from business, politics, and show business - including Nelson Mandela, Paul Newman, Robert Megabee, Paul Jeating, Margaret Thatcher and George Bush - The Luck Of O'Reilly is an important, intimate potrait of a comples, multidimensional man and ...

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Anne Frank

By Prose, Francine

In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become ...

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Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements

By Garvey, Mark

A LIVeLY, WITTY, AND PASSIONATe
CeLeBRATION OF THe "LITTLe BOOK"
THAT HAS DONe MORe TO SHAPe WRITING
IN THe eNGLISH LANGUAGe THAN
ANY OTHeR GUIDe IN MODeRN TIMeS
Since 1959, The elements of Style has ...

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Ayn Rand and the World She Made

By Heller, Anne C.

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attract ...

Best price: $32.47
Gabriel García Márquez

By Martin, Gerald

The first reviews from the UK:
“As a piece of investigation alone Martin’s book is an outstanding achievement unlikely ever to be bettered . . . It is a rags-to-riches tale as absorbing and at times bizarre as anything in M& ...

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The Road to San Giovanni

By Calvino, Italo

A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work--now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and a ...

Best price: $13.16
Philip K Dick: The Pocket Essential Guide

By Butler, Andrew M.

Who was Dick? A freaked-out junkie who took too many drugs? An explorer of madness who go too close to his subject and ended up claiming to have met God? A practical joker? The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world? At a time when most SF was about cowboys in ou ...

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Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life

By Hadda, Janet

Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the english-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom, and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, ...

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Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future

By Silverberg, Robert

Capturing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of science fiction, this unique autobiography by Robert Silverberg shows how famous stories in this genre were conceived and written. Chronicling his career as one of the most important American science fiction writers of ...

Best price: $19.95
The Story of a Life

By Appelfeld, Aharon

In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with usâ€"for the first timeâ€"the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.Aharon Appelfeld's childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazi ...

Best price: $11.41
Letters of Ayn Rand

By RAND, AYN

The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century. For there is no sepa ...

Best price: $30.00

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

By Heller, Anne C.

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attract ...

Best price: $32.47
Philip K Dick: The Pocket Essential Guide

By Butler, Andrew M.

Who was Dick? A freaked-out junkie who took too many drugs? An explorer of madness who go too close to his subject and ended up claiming to have met God? A practical joker? The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world? At a time when most SF was about cowboys in ou ...

Best price: $9.99
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

By Morgan, Bill

In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detail ...

Best price: $18.00
Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style

By Garvey, Mark

A LIVeLY, WITTY, AND PASSIONATe
CeLeBRATION OF THe "LITTLe BOOK"
THAT HAS DONe MORe TO SHAPe WRITING
IN THe eNGLISH LANGUAGe THAN
ANY OTHeR GUIDe IN MODeRN TIMeS
Since 1959, The elements of Style has ...

Best price: $20.17
Letters of Ayn Rand

By RAND, AYN

The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century. For there is no sepa ...

Best price: $30.00
Anne Frank

By Prose, Francine

In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become ...

Best price: $19.99
The Road to San Giovanni

By Calvino, Italo

A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work--now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and a ...

Best price: $13.16
The Story of a Life

By Appelfeld, Aharon

In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with usâ€"for the first timeâ€"the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.Aharon Appelfeld's childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazi ...

Best price: $11.41
Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future

By Silverberg, Robert

Capturing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of science fiction, this unique autobiography by Robert Silverberg shows how famous stories in this genre were conceived and written. Chronicling his career as one of the most important American science fiction writers of ...

Best price: $19.95
Derzhavin: A Biography

By Khodasevich, Vladislav

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743–1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia—imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleon—and he served three tsars, including Catherine the Great. ...

Best price: $29.95

Women

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A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Spea

By Sultan, Wafa

From the front page of The New York Times to YouTube, Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time, she tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about radical Islam in A God Who Hates, a passionate memoi ...

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The Ladies Gallery

By Vilar, Irene

A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representativ ...

Best price: $10.51
Land of a Thousand Hills

By Carr, Rosamond Halsey / Halsey, Ann Howard

In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plan ...

Best price: $17.00
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared t

By Joya, Malalai

Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to A ...

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Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box

By Albright, Madeleine

Before long, and without intending it, I found that jewelry had become part of my personal diplomatic arsenal. Former president George H. W. Bush had been known for saying "Read my lips." I began urging colleagues and reporters to "Read my pins." It would never have happen ...

Best price: $31.99
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

By De Lisle, Leanda

Leanda de Lisle is the author of After elizabeth. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she earned a master of arts degree in modern history. A successful journalist and broadcaster, she has been a columnist for The Spectato ...

Best price: $26.33
Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Othe

By Sher, Abby

Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and ...

Best price: $21.94
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

By Janzen, Rhoda

A hilarious and moving memoir�''in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora ephron�''about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough ...

Best price: $19.31
The Girls of Room 28

By Brenner, Hannelore

"This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable."
—elie Wiesel
"The story of this children's home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the plac ...

Best price: $22.82
Report from Engine Co. 82

By Smith, Dennis

From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession. ...

Best price: $12.29

A Very Private Woman

By Burleigh, Nina

Nina Burleigh's articles have appeared in Time, The Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine. She lives in New York.
From the Trade Paperback edition. ...

Best price: $16.67
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

By Joya, Malalai

Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to A ...

Best price: $21.94
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

By Janzen, Rhoda

A hilarious and moving memoir�''in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora ephron�''about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough ...

Best price: $19.31
Land of a Thousand Hills

By Carr, Rosamond Halsey / Halsey, Ann Howard

In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plan ...

Best price: $17.00
Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)

By Sher, Abby

Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and ...

Best price: $21.94
Lucky

By Sebold, Alice

enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go.
Sebold fulfills a ...

Best price: $11.40
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

By De Lisle, Leanda

Leanda de Lisle is the author of After elizabeth. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she earned a master of arts degree in modern history. A successful journalist and broadcaster, she has been a columnist for The Spectato ...

Best price: $26.33
The Ladies Gallery

By Vilar, Irene

A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representativ ...

Best price: $10.51
The Investment Club Book

By Wasik, John F

One of the hottest trends currently evolving, investment clubs are groups of ordinary people who pool their money to invest in the stock market. This easy-to-understand guide reveals the secrets of some of the country's leading clubs, explains how to start and run an investm ...

Best price: $8.76
Report from Engine Co. 82

By Smith, Dennis

From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession. ...

Best price: $12.29

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Not Lost Forever

By Salcido, Carmina

Twenty years ago, one man's murderous rampage destroyed his own family . . . and devastated a community. Now the only survivor�''his daughter�''tells her story at last. On April 14, 1989, for reasons still debated today, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a violent r ...

Best price: $19.99
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

By Kamkwamba, William

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using energy, ...

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American on Purpose

By Ferguson, Craig

In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make hi ...

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My Life Outside the Ring

By Hogan, Hulk / Dagostino, Mark

Hulk Hogan, born Terry Bollea, burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late seventies and went on to become a world wrestling champion many times over. From humble beginnings, this giant of a man escaped a pre-ordained life of dock and construc ...

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Goodbye, Fatty! Hello, Skinny! How I Lost Weight And Still Ate The Foods

By Rinehart, Kim

Goodbye, Fatty! Hello, Skinny! How I Lost Weight And Still Ate The Foods I Loved-Without Dieting ...

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Highest Duty

By Sullenberger, Chesley B.

In this inspirational autobiography, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so vital... ...

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Black Postcards

By Wareham, Dean

Dean Wareham ?s seminal bands Galaxie 500 and Luna have long been adored by a devoted cult following and extolled by Rock critics. Now he brings us the blunt, heartbreaking, and wickedly charismatic account of his personal journey through the music world?the artistry and the ...

Best price: $16.00
My Booky Wook

By Brand, Russell

Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial essex, england, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs, and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and miraculously ...

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Parallel Play

By Page, Tim

“Parallel Play tells of Tim’s journey from lonely boy genius to Pulitzer-winning writer. One thing becomes clear: Tim’s sharp and incisive insights into music and the arts were made possible by Asperger's syndrome, the ...

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Official Book Club Selection

By Griffin, Kathy

A Conversation with Kathy Griffin:
Q: State your name and profession.
KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber.
Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything ...

Best price: $21.94

Redeeming Features

By Haslam, Nicholas

Nicholas Haslam is an interior designer and the author of Sheer Opulence. He has been a contributing editor at British Vogue and Tatler for many years and also writes for The World of Interiors and The Spectator. ...

Best price: $30.00
You Better Not Cry

By Burroughs, Augusten

You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle h ...

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A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island

By Chamberlain, Brenda

A Rope of Vines - Journal from a Greek Island' is a beautiful and personal account of the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960s. Sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, her neighbours and friends are unforgettably pictured; these ...

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The Sugarless Plum

By Karz, Zippora

It started as the perfect story. Zippora Karz was a member of the famed New York City Ballet by the age of eighteen. By twenty she was starring in The Nutcracker and traveling the world.
It was the stuff dreams are made of until, at twenty-one, Karz became ex ...

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The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

By Baker, Elna

Writer, actress, and gorgeous stand up comedian: Introducing the Mormon Tina Fey
It's lonely being a Mormon in New York City. So once again, elna Baker attends the New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance-a virgin in a room full of virgins doing the Ma ...

Best price: $25.95
Lit

By Karr, Mary

The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbel ...

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Stephen Fry in America

By Fry, Stephen

Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of englishness, a black London cab.Stephen Fry has always loved America. In fact, he came very close to being ...

Best price: $26.99
Thank Heaven

By Caron, Leslie

One of the best-loved stars of classic American cinema tells all in this wry, funny, and poignant memoir
Leslie Caron is one of the most cherished and admired international film stars of our time. She made her film debut with Gene Kelly in the classic MGM musi ...

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Miracle on the Hudson

By Prochnau, William / Parker, Laura / The Survivors Of Flight 1549

William Prochnau and Laura Parker write collaborative articles for Vanity Fair, where Prochnau is a contributing editor. They interviewed 120 passengers of Flight 1549, as well as many first responders and rescuers. Prochnau, a former n ...

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After the Stroke

By McEwen, Mark

The intimate, life-affirming journey of recovery and rehabilitation from a major stroke, written by one of morning television's most beloved personalities
Mark Mcewen was at the top of his game and enjoying life when he suffered a stroke. After fifteen years o ...

Best price: $15.00

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> Steffans, Karrine

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Confessions of a Video Vixen

By Steffans, Karrine

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant...more ...

Best price: $10.49

> Cast, P. C. / Cast, Kristin

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Untamed: A House of Night Novel

By Cast, P. C. / Cast, Kristin

Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird – she’s become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to b...more ...

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> Cooke, Deborah

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Kiss of Fate: A Dragonfire Novel

By Cooke, Deborah

For millennia, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have commanded the four elements and guarded the earth's treasures. But now the final reckoning between the Pyr, who count humans among the earth's treasures, and the Slayers, who would eradicate both humans...more ...

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> Tammet, Daniel

Best price: $21.94

Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind

By Tammet, Daniel

Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic sav...more ...

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> Paul, Ron

Best price: $14.99

The Revolution: A Manifesto

By Paul, Ron

There is no doubt that Ron Paul has become the enchanter of the disenchanted, but the best way toÂ understand him is to take a quick look at his voting record.Â He has never voted to raise taxes.Â He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.Â He has never voted to...more ...

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> Spelling, Tori

Best price: $13.16

Stori Telling

By Spelling, Tori

She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-privat...more ...

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> Walls, Jeannette

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, g...more ...

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