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What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered (Paperback)

In this exquisitely written memoir poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close to home tending his garden where he cast his mind... more

At Home in the Heart of Appalachia: A Memoir (Paperback)

John O Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later with a wife and two kids of his own the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to... more

Ghost Rider : Travels on the Healing Road (Paperback)

Within a ten-month period Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter Selena and his wife Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense... more

Ghost Rider : Travels on the Healing Road (Hardcover)

Within a ten-month period Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter Selena and his wife Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense... more

My Long Trip Home : A Family Memoir (Paperback)

Originally published in hardcover in 2011. In a dramatic moving work Mark Whitaker award-winning journalist sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple and arrives at a new... more

Backing into Forward : A Memoir (Paperback)

Subversive funny and effortlessly droll Jules Feiffer s cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and 70s--featured in the Village Voice but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer describes... more

Hillbillies to Heroes : Journey from the Back Hills of Tennessee to the Battlefields of World War II--A True Story (Paperback)

A nostalgic coming-of-age memoir told in the voice of a good ol Tennessee hillbilly who leaves his isolated mountain home in 1942 to train as a tank driver and fight through blazing villages with Patton s army. Along the way he puts his father s... more

From Our House : A Memoir 9780525945468 Used / Pre-owned

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George Lyttelton 1St Baron Lyttelton British Politician Statesman Patron Of The Arts 1709 - 1773 From Memoirs Of Eminent

George Lyttelton 1St Baron Lyttelton British Politician Statesman Patron Of The Arts 1709 - 1773 From Memoirs Of Eminent would make the perfect addition to your home or office or gift recipient. This licensed Fine Art Print was reproduced on Premium... more

The correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer Bart. speaker of the House of Commons. With a memoir of his life. To which are added other relicks of a gentleman s family 1838 [Leather

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Pre-Owned We Changed the World: Memoirs of a CNN Global Satellite Pioneer (Hardcover) 1557788553 9781557788559

CNN began a revolution in television with the advent of its 24-hour cable news channel out of Atlanta in 1980 challenging the three major television networks headquartered in New York that shaped the perception of current events by Americans. This... more

Pre-Owned Collins Classics - 12 Years a Slave : A True Story 9780007580422

This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award nominated film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup who was born and raised as a freeman in New York. He lived the American dream with a house and a loving family -... more

Pre-Owned A Good Home : A Memoir 9781927483480

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No Way Home : A Memoir of Life on the Run 9781250112194 Used / Pre-owned

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Memoirs of the Verney family during the seventeenth century : compiled from the papers and illustrated by the portraits at Claydon house / by Frances Parthenope Verney and Margaret

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Pre-Owned Half the Way Home : A Memoir of Father and Son 9780896217669 Used

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Impossible Odds : The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

A harrowing and heart-wrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Buchanan s kidnapping by Somali land pirates her three months in captivity her rescue by the Navy SEALs and her husband s extraordinary efforts to help bring her home. more

David Balfour : being memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad : the second part ... written by himself and now set forth / by Robert Louis Stevenson. 1908 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned John Glenn a Memoir (Paperback) 0375707859 9780375707858

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Memoir Of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow Thirteen Years A Member Of The American Mission In Ceylon [Hardcover]

About the Book:-The wishes of the author’s associates abroad and the friends of missions at home induced the compiler to attempt the preparation of this memoir though it was undertaken amidst the distractions and multiplied engagements of a visit... more

Seventy Thousand Camels: A Motivational Survivor s Memoir (Paperback)

At age 16 Angelica ran away from her new home in Australia and a narcissistic mother living for a time in a youth refuge and on the street. Angelica thought she had found love when in fact she lost more of herself through this encounter. She finally... more

Pre-Owned The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles (Paperback) 0142196304 9780142196304

This evocative memoir flashes back to Swander s Catholic childhood the death of her mother and other events that made her suspicious of opening herself to spirituality. Hers is a tale of discovery. -- Chicago Tribune While driving home one cold... more

Pre-Owned Trail of Crumbs : Hunger Love and the Search for Home 9780446697903

Already hailed as brave emotional and gorgeously written by Frances Mayes and like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet satisfying and finished all too soon by Laura Fraser author of An Italian Affair this is a unique memoir about the search for... more

Pre-Owned Running Home: A Memoir (Paperback) 0425284670 9780425284674

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk an Outside magazine writer tells her story--of fathers and daughters grief and renewal adventure and obsession and the power of running to change your life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL... more

Address of President Roosevelt at the laying of the corner stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives Saturday April 14 1906. 1906 [Leather Bound]

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Trinity: Trinity - The Prophecy (Hardcover)

If monsters are real that makes me the biggest monster of all. Not all paths are set in stone but for Trinity fate will pave its way. With her eighteenth birthday approaching the only things Trinity was concerned about was leaving her dreaded home... more

Pre-Owned Fanchon s Daughter: A Memoir (Paperback) 0615783287 9780615783284

Faye Hueston was born in a Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers in Los Angeles California. Adopted at 18 months she was raised in a home of affluence as the daughter of Fanchon of Fanchon and Marco the foremost producers of musical revues in the... more

Pre-Owned Living Large in Our Little House: Thriving in 480 Square Feet with Six Dogs a Husband and One Remote--Plus More Stories of How You Can Too (Paperback) 1621454258 9781621454250

Based on the successful blog Living Large in Our Little House the book is a practical and inspirational memoir about the joy and freedom of tiny house living. Traditionally the American Dream has included owning a house and until recently that meant... more

My View from the House by the Sea: A Life Transformed by Samoa and the Peace Corps (Paperback)

This true story set in a small Samoan village at the turn of the twenty-first century is told lovingly by a former Peace Corps volunteer and will take you there with its vivid imagery and emotional insight. As her poignant memoir unfolds the author... more

My Father Frank Lloyd Wright 9780486269863 Used / Pre-owned

Charming memoir by his son of Wright as genius father and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet s The House Beautiful a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

The Final Journey Home (Paperback)

This biographic memoir is more than a journal of an experience. It is a story of a daughter s love compassion and grief. As the eldest daughter the author details her struggle with navigating the loss of her mother her depression and her feelings of... more

The Life and Work of an Atheist Pioneer (Hardcover)

Author Christos Tzanetakos adheres to the profound statement of Emile Zola: Civilization will thrive when the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. This memoir narrates the stories of Tzanetakos lifelong adventures and presents... more

How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp : A Uyghur Woman s Story (Hardcover)

The first memoir about the reeducation camps by a Uyghur woman. I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality. -- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017 more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang... more

Pre-Owned In the House of My Fear : A Memoir 9781593760458

In the spring of 1964 Joel Agee not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his youth behind the Iron Curtain) accidentally ingests a sizeable dose of LSD. He is thrown from the precincts of bohemian normalcy into a whirl of... more

Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League (Hardcover - Used) 0375507744 9780375507748

Home schooling has long been regarded as a last resort particularly by African-American families. But in this inspirational and practical memoir Paula Penn-Nabrit shares her intimate experiences of home-schooling her three sons Charles Damon and... more

Personal memoirs of the home life of the late Theodore Roosevelt as soldier governor vice president and president in relation to Oyster Bay ... By Albert Loren Cheney ... (1919) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1919 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Farm Girl: A Memoir (Paperback)

Farm Girl is a memoir of urgent grace that crosses boundaries of genre and time. In her second year of college Megan finds herself bonded to a lover spiraling into addiction and two thousand miles away from her heart s home--a stretch of forty... more

Pre-Owned The Mother Knot: A Memoir (Hardcover) 1400061911 9781400061914

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