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What do readers say about The Glass Castle?
deeply disturbing memoir the best memoir I have ever read very frank and raw really interestingMORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of ... More details on The Glass Castle
I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. It was just after dark. A blustery March wind whipped the ...
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What do readers say about Dry?
honest and wryly humorous a thought provoking memoir hysterical and touching honest beyond all imagination"I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the ... More details on Dry
Sometimes when you work in advertising you’ll get a product that’s really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life. Like once, I had...
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What do readers say about The Liars' Club?
dark edgy style very well written a compelling memoir grim and dark#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation-now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in cel... More details on The Liars' Club
My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark. I was seven, and our family doctor knelt before me where I sat on a mattress on the bare floor. He wore a yellow golf shirt unbuttoned so ...
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What do readers say about Magical Thinking?
heavily disguised autobiographical anecdotes very long novels there are no coincidences personal struggles, relationshipsFrom the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.
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My elementary school sat atop a low grassy hill in the center of Shutesbury, a small New England town that was so “small New England town” one had the sensation of existing within a snow globe at a so...
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What do readers say about Educated?
descriptive and complex disturbing and truly heart-wrenching clear and engaging sad and frightening#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER
One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambr... More details on Educated
My strongest memory is not a memory. It’s something I imagined, then came to remember as if it had happened. The memory was formed when I was five, just before I turned six, from a story my father tol...
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What do readers say about I'm Glad My Mom Died?
short episodic chapter an incredibly candid memoir an important cultural document an absolute must-read#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicate... More details on I'm Glad My Mom Died
THE PRESENT IN FRONT OF me is wrapped in Christmas paper even though it’s the end of June. We have so much paper left over from the holidays because Grandpa got the dozen-roll set from Sam’s Club even...
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What do readers say about Hillbilly Elegy?
interesting and readable white working class americans autobiographical social commentary thoughtful and intelligentTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO
"You will not read a more important book about America this year."-The Economist
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Like most small children, I learned my home address so that if I got lost, I could tell a grown-up where to take me. In kindergarten, when the teacher asked me where I lived, I could recite the addres...
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What do readers say about A Child Called "It"?
child abuse and fighting tragic but questionable a brief, intense memoir true story bookThis book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played t... More details on A Child Called "It"
March 5, 1973, Daly City, California – Im late. Ive got to finish the dishes on time, otherwise no breakfast; and since I didnt have dinner last night, I have to make sure I get something to eat. M...
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What do readers say about A Wolf at the Table?
spare, chilling, devastating, heartbreaking understated yet poignant a bit self-indulgent a sad memoirNominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year
"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and... More details on A Wolf at the Table
SITTING IN MY high chair, I held a saltine cracker up to my eye and peered through one of the tiny holes, astonished that I could see so much through such a small opening. Everything on the other side...
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What do readers say about The Sound of Gravel?
tediously descriptive and monotonous book club must read interesting and well written empty and hollowAn instant New York Times bestseller
"A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." - People Magazine
"An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community." - New York Magazine
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I am my mother’s fourth child and my father’s thirty-ninth. I grew up in Colonia LeBaron, a small town in the Mexican countryside 200 miles south of El Paso, Texas. The colony, as we called it, was fo...
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