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Last Places: A Journey in the North – A Classic Adventure Along Ancient Viking Routes from Norway to Newfoundland
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Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman's Story of Surviving the Music Industry
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
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Italian Days
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Letters from Iceland
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When French Women Cook: A Gastronomic Memoir
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Early Times In Texas
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Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star
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Invisible: A Memoir
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A Son of the Middle Border
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Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology
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Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood
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Guardian Angel
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Back in the Game: One Gunman, Countless Heroes, and the Fight for My Life
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Waiting for the Morning Train
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Memoirs of My Life
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Paracuellos
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Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey
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Time Remembered
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Miss Read
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Among Friends
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Why Shoot the Teacher
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My Summer in a Garden
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Station life in New Zealand
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Son of Oscar Wilde
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I Rode with Stonewall
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A Fade of Light
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
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Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond
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A House in Flanders
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Memories of the Russian Court
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A Bevy of Beasts
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
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Limping through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir
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On Growing Up Tough: An Irreverent Memoir
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Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression
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Sixty Years a Nurse
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The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over
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A Texas Pioneer
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Seven Years in Hanoi
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The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
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Cripple Creek Days
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
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Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography
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The Log-Cabin Lady: An Anonymous Autobiography with Illustrations
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Anonymous
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The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution
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The Brass Ring
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Lost Voices of the Edwardians
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Happy Days: 1880-1892
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Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1941
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Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune
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The Lusitania's Last Voyage: Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915
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Charles E. Lauriat Jr.
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A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
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To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929
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Amateur Sugar Maker
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Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War
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There's a Devil in the Drum
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Reilly of the White House: Behind the Scenes with FDR
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Long Ago When I Was Young
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A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression
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A Childhood in Scotland
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Will This Do? An Autobiography
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The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America
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My Story: an Autobiography
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