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Collection: Biographies & Memoirs

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My Sergei: A Love Story

My Sergei: A Love Story

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Grand Central Publishing

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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

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Broadway Books

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Standing Tall: The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans (Scholastic Biography)

Standing Tall: The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans (Scholastic Biography)

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More Than Words

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The Opposite of Fate

The Opposite of Fate

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More Than Words

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Name All the Animals: A Memoir

Name All the Animals: A Memoir

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Scribner

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Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia

Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia

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More Than Words

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Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir

Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir

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More Than Words

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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

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Cancer Vixen: A True Story

Cancer Vixen: A True Story

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The Tricky Part: A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgiveness

The Tricky Part: A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgiveness

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Anchor

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And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

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Twelve

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The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

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Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club

Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club

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Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

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More Than Words

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My Point...And I Do Have One

My Point...And I Do Have One

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Bantam

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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

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More Than Words

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Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions

Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions

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Paul Dry Books

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Einstein in Love: (A Scientific Romance)

Einstein in Love: (A Scientific Romance)

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More Than Words

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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

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Bold Type Books

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Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?

Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?

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Hachette Books

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This Boy's Life: A Memoir

This Boy's Life: A Memoir

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

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Henry Holt and Co.

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It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary

It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary

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Harperteen

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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir

1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir

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Touchstone

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Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina

Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina

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W. W. Norton & Company

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The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812

The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812

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Basic Books

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Leadership

Leadership

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More Than Words

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Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing

Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing

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More Than Words

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Locked in the Cabinet

Locked in the Cabinet

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More Than Words

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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (Random House Large Print)

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (Random House Large Print)

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Random House Large Print

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The Road to San Donato: Fathers, Sons, and Cycling Across Italy

The Road to San Donato: Fathers, Sons, and Cycling Across Italy

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Mountaineers Books

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A Journey: My Political Life

A Journey: My Political Life

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More Than Words

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Tales My Father Never Told (New York State Series)

Tales My Father Never Told (New York State Series)

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Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

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