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Biographies and autobiographies.
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Sheff, David Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through his Son's Addiction From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the perspective of his father, David.--From amazon.com. 2008 Appears on the following book lists:
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Tammet, Daniel Born On a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant: A Memoir "Born on a Blue Day" is a triumphant and uplifting story, starting from early childhood, when Daniel was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity. The world's leading neuroscientists have been studying Daniel's ability to solve complicated math problems in one fell swoop by seeing shapes rather than making step-by-step calculations. Here he explains how he does it, and how he is able to learn new languages so quickly, simply by absorbing their patterns. 2007 Appears on the following book lists:  Biographies for Teens
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Ollestad, Norman Crazy for the Storm : a Memoir of Survival Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life. 2009 Appears on the following book lists: At Home Reader September 2009
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Fuller, Alexandra Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. 2001 Appears on the following book lists: Women's Memoirs
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Weller, Sheila. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation Girls Like Us is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition. 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Friend, Catherine Hit By a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn Coming-of-(middle)age story of a woman trying to close the divide between who she wants to be and who she really is. After helping a friend realize her dream, she eventually finds a way to recapture her own in her crash course in liffing off, and living with, the land. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Greenberg, Michael Hurry Down Sunshine Tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months. 2008 Appears on the following book lists:
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Bertinelli, Valerie Losing it: and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time The actress recalls the challenges of maintaining a healthy self-image while coping with the stress of celebrity, her twenty-year marriage to rock star Eddie Van Halen, her battle with depression and weight, motherhood, and her determination to take control of her own life. 2008 Appears on the following book lists: At Home Reader November 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Deen, Paula H., 1947- Paula Deen : it Ain't All About the Cookin' Paula Deen talks about long childhood summers; hard years living in the back of her father's gas station; a high school social life of sleepovers, parties, cheerleading, and boys; and a difficult marriage. 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic-strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effect of war with Iraq. 2003 Appears on the following book lists: Good Reads for High School Quick and Easy Graphic Novels for Teens Alex Award - Nonfiction
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Dungy, Tony. Quiet Strength : a Memoir Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Crane, Kathleen. Sea Legs : Tales of a Woman Oceanographer This personal tale of a woman's pioneering career in the once male-dominated field of oceanography which encompasses politics, international relations, scientific espionage, and passion for the natural world. Crane chronicles her career adventures including early searches for the Titanic, some of the first scientific expeditions of the Arctic, and her work with scientists from the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kantner, Seth, 1965- Shopping for Porcupine : a Life in Arctic Alaska His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from family histories to hunting stories, celebrations of people and places to a lament over a majestic wilderness rapidly disappearing. 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Haygood, Wil. Sweet Thunder : the Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson 2009 Appears on the following book lists: Nonfiction: Sports | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello : an American Family Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson. 2008 Appears on the following book lists: National Book Awards
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Cooper, Helene The House at Sugar Beach The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region. 2008 Appears on the following book lists: At Home Reader March 2009
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Preston, Douglas J. The Monster of Florence New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide--and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.--From publisher description. 2008 Appears on the following book lists: At Home Reader September 2008 True Crime
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Carr, David The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life: his Own The "New York Times" reporter embarks on a three-year fact-finding mission to revisit his harrowing past as a drug addict and discovers that the search for answers can reveal many versions of the truth. 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Drabble, Margaret, 1939- The Pattern in the Carpet : a Personal History with Jigsaws The author offers an innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw-puzzle history, and the strange delights of puzzling, with sketches of her family members and her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art, and writing. 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Schroeder, Alice The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors. 2008 Appears on the following book lists: Recent Writings on Big Names in Business
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