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Biographies
The famous and not-so-famous people found in biographies give us glimpses into the lives of our fellow humans.


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Melba Pattillo Beals
Warriors Don't Cry: a Searing Memoir of the Battle to
Integrate Little Rock's Central High


Geraldine Brooks
Foreign Correspondence

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James Carroll
An American Requiem: God, my father, and the war that came between us

Jill K. Conway
Road from Coorain

Jill K. Conway
True North: a memoir


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Eleanor Ramroth Garner
Eleanor's Story: an American girl in Hitler's Germany


Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wait till next year: a memoir


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Homer Hickman
October Sky

Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm: a Man, a Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History


Ruth Reichl Long
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

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Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Man's Coming of Age
in Apartheid South Africa


Richard McKenzie
Turn Left at the Black Cow: One Family's Journey from
Beverly Hills to Ireland


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Nuala O'Faolain
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman


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Slavomir Rawicz
Walk

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Barbara Scott
Prairie Reunion

Dava Sobel
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time


Dava Sobel
Galileo's Daughter: an historical memoir of science, faith and love

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Susan Allen Toth
Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood


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Janwilliem Van de Wetering
The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

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Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Carrie Young
Nothing to do but stay: My Pioneer Mother


 
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