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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Read by)
A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafasi formed a book club in Tehran comprised of seven young women who got together to discuss such books as THE GREAT GATSBY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DAISY MILLER, and, of course, LOLITA--books forbidden by the Islamic government. In this memoir, Nafasi, who was expelled from the country for refusing to wear the veil, writes about those women, ...
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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
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Jeffrey Zaslow
From the co-author of the bestselling "The Last Lecture" comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of 11 girls and the women they became.
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Jung Chang
An international bestseller with over three million copies in print, this is the story of three generations, mostly of women, in a Chinese family.
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Lucky
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Alice Sebold
Raped and beaten as an 18-year-old Syracuse University student, Alice Sebold recounts the story of her rape, the trial and conviction of her rapist, and her recovery. Her book also tells the story of its own coming into being. Immediately after the rape, Sebold vowed to write about it, and worked it out in various forms before sculpting it into ...
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High on Arrival
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MacKenzie Phillips
The former teen star of "One Day at a Time" reveals her shocking, moving story about growing up in a legendary rock-and-roll family, the personal demons and addictions she has battled, and her struggle to find redemption and peace.
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Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
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Liz Curtis Higgs
Higgs takes an inspired look at some notorious women of the Bible. Her humorous interpretations of the stories of Jezebel, Lot's wife, and Sapphira--to name a few--tell powerful moral tales because, according to Higgs, women identify more easily with these flawed women even while they aspire to the likes of Mary and Sarah.
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Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do with You
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John MacArthur
Join bestselling author and highly esteemed Bible teacher John MacArthur as he studies the lives and faith of key women from both the Old and New Testaments. Each chapter includes a biographical summary of the woman along with spiritual lessons drawn from her life.
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The Kiss
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Kathryn Harrison
One of today's best young American writers transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter.
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
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Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah
The author's Westernized Chinese family in Shanghai was wealthy but dysfunctional. In this painful memoir, she writes about the cruelty she endured and her eventual emigration to the U.S., where she became a doctor.
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The Complete Persepolis
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Marjane Satrapi
Satrapis groundbreaking two-part graphic memoir of her unforgettable girlhood within a large family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution--now available in one volume--has been transferred to the big screen in a major animated film from Sony Picture Classics.
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
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Firoozeh Dumas
The author writes about her years in early-1970s America, when her father, an Iranian oil company executive, was posted to California. Their arrival coincided with the hostage crisis, when anti-Iran fervor in America was at its height--and her father lost his job. Despite this and other trials, the family continued in its admiration for the U.S., ...
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Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, J Laslocky (Editor)
On the basis of a diary, Ulrich gives the reader an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard and her society--a portrait that sheds light on its medical practices, religious squabbles and sexual mores. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl spills the beans (and the sushi, salads, and steak) about her years as a restaurant critic, first at the LA Times, then at the New York Times. Famous for her absurd (but useful) disguises, Reichl spent years on the Manhattan restaurant circuit, awarding and subtracting stars as she searched for a truly good meal. Besides her ...
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Love, Loss, and What I Wore
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Ilene Beckerman
A woman's life seen through what she wore at all the important events.
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
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Ruth Reichl (Introduction by)
The second volume of Ruth Reichl's autobiography takes her into adulthood, and chronicles her romantic life as well as her evolution into a food critic. It includes accounts of the memorable food that accompanied memorable moments in her life, including her days in a Berkeley commune, her second husband's favorite chocolate cake, and a trip to ...
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
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Anne Lamott
A journal that covers Lamott's pregnancy at 35 and the birth of her son, Sam, as well as the diagnosis and death of her best friend, Pammy, from cancer.
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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
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Lily Koppel
"A New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary - a long-lost treasure that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamourous, forgotten time. For decades it languished in an unclaimed trunk in the basement of a prewar building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, until it was tossed in a dumpster and recovered by journalist Lily ...
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High Voltage Tattoo
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Kat Von D, Lionel Deluy (Photographer)
The charismatic Kat Von D, the star of LA Ink, with writer Anthony Bozza (author of best-sellers "Slash" and "Tommyland") opens the door to the world of contemporary tattooing, the way only a true insider can. The book will be targeted to the tattoo audience, particularly the younger demographic that actively gets tattoos. It will include Kat's ...
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
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Cokie Roberts
Explores the lives of women who helped shape the United States, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene.
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The Middle Place
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Kelly Corrigan
Corrigan's beautifully written memoir intertwines her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born-salesman father's, and illustrates both an unbelievably powerful and healing father/daughter relationship and the unbreakable bonds of family.
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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Dava Sobel
Drawing from over 100 recently translated letters, this historical account chronicles the life of the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei by examining his relationship with his eldest daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun. This biography places their correspondence in historical context, detailing the religious and political climate of Galileo's ...
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Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
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Sue Bender
Sue Bender's follow-up to her phenomenally popular "Plain and Simple" is a conscientious attempt to capture moments from her life that speak powerfully to our shared longing to make each day truly count.
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Philip Boehm (Translator)
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
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Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story
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C David Heymann
The bestselling author uses his impressive list of sources and impeccable insight to reveal the true story of the relationship between Jacqueline Kennedy and her brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy. Their affair has been an open secret for decades amongst Kennedy insiders. Now, C. David Heymann will share those secrets with the thousands of readers ...
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