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A Boy Named Beckoning : The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
Capaldi, GinaLerner Publishing Group 2014This story reveals the remarkable life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, or "Beckoning," who was kidnapped from his Yavapai tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted by an Italian p...
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Red Bird Sings : The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
Capaldi, Gina; Pearce, Q. L.Lerner Publishing Group 2014"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in Sou...
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Daughter of Empire
Hicks, PamelaTantor Media 2014A magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten.
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My Brief History
Hawking, StephenPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2013Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist...
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Outside Passage
Scully, JuliaBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2013When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage—learning...
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The Spark
Barnett, KristinePenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2013Kristine Barnett's son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein's, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory...
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The Borgias
Meyer, G.J.Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2013The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping...
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Orphan Train Rider
Warren, AndreaBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2013Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as...
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Twelve Years a Slave
Northup, SolomonBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2013In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washi...
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Battle Ready
Donald, Mark L.; Mactavish, ScottMacmillan Audio 2013The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. DonaldAs A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valor...
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The Heavy : A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet—A Memoir
Weiss, Dara-LynnRandom House Publishing Group 2013For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of mode...
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Coal to Diamonds : A Memoir
Ditto, Beth; Tea, MichelleRandom House Publishing Group 2012A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Ju...
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Bellow : A Biography
Atlas, JamesRandom House Publishing Group 2012With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent...
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Dearie
Spitz, BobPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012The definitive biography of Julia Child--with access to Julia's diaries and letters--written by the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed The Beatles and timed to Juli...
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Running for My Life
Lomong, Lopez; Tabb, MarkThomas Nelson 2012Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give...
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Always Running : La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Rodríguez, Luis J.Open Road Media 2012The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: “Fierce, and fearless” (The New York Times). Luis J...
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Growing Up Amish
Wagler, Irachristianaudio 2012One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, a...
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The Real James Herriot : A Memoir of My Father
Wight, JamesRandom House Publishing Group 2011No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally be...
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Ecce Homo : How One Becomes What One Is
Nietzsche, FriedrichBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2009Ecce Homo, which is Latin for "behold the man," is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philoso...
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Wishful Drinking
Fisher, CarrieSimon & Schuster Audio 2009Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one...