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By: Adeline Yen Mah
Price: $1.95
Publisher: Laurel Leaf: March 2001
Seller ID: 45403
ISBN: 0440228654
Condition: Used - Good
"A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s." A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In "Chinese Cinderella," Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister ar... View more info
By: Arthur Golden
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Knopf: September 1997
Seller ID: 45052
ISBN: 0375400117
Condition: Used - Good
An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begin... View more info
By: Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Back Bay Books: November 1988
Seller ID: 43978
ISBN: 0316773433
Condition: Used - Good
By: Chip Gaines,Joanna Gaines,Mark Dagostino
Price: $2.95
Publisher: Thomas Nelson: October 2016
Seller ID: 45684
ISBN: 0718079183
Condition: Used - Good
By: Dave Pelzer
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Dutton Adult: October 1999
Seller ID: 45165
ISBN: 0525945210
Condition: Used - Good
These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing him in any way she could imagine. This was the woman who told her son she could kill him any time she wanted to -- and nearly did. The more than two million readers of Pelzer's previous international bestsellers, A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy, know that he lived to tell his courageous story. A Man Named Dave is the gripping conclusion to h... View more info
By: Dean Hughes
Price: $1.95
Publisher: Atheneum: March 1999
Seller ID: 45510
ISBN: 0689819250
Condition: Used - Good
By: Douglas Lebeck
Price: $5.95
Publisher: 1st Book Library: August 2002
Seller ID: 45389
ISBN: 1403342253
Condition: Used - Good
Experience the unimaginable terror and indescribable beauty of a time when flesh-eating predators ruled the earth. Join paleontologist David Williams as he leaves all that he knows to risk a harrowing trip through time to live alone among the dinosaurs. View more info
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Price: $1.95
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks: June 1989
Seller ID: 45088
ISBN: 059043344X
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By: Frank McCourt
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2000
Seller ID: 42918
ISBN: 0684865742
Condition: Used - Good
Frank McCourt s glorious childhood memoir, "Angela s Ashes, " has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have " Tis, " the story of Frank s American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the... View more info
By: Frank McCourt
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Scribner: May 1999
Seller ID: 42934
ISBN: 068484267X
Condition: Used - Good
" When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. " So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages... View more info
By: Frank McCourt
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Scribner: September 1996
Seller ID: 43745
ISBN: 0684874350
Condition: Used - Good
" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."" So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wag... View more info
Price: $2.95
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: January 2007
Seller ID: 43692
ISBN: 0760784515
Condition: Used - Good
By: H. W. Brands
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Doubleday: October 2005
Seller ID: 43850
ISBN: 0385507380
Condition: Used - Good
The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson--the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness--told by the bestselling author of "The First American." The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal figure in American history. The first "common man" to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term "Jacksonian democracy" is embedded in our national lexicon. With the sweep, passion, and attention to detail that made "The Fi... View more info
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Publisher: Penguin Workshop: November 2008
Seller ID: 46305
ISBN: 0448448866
Condition: Used - Good
Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age--literally (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford's Theater--the first President to be assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps are included. View more info
By: Jeannette Walls
Price: $2.95
Publisher: Scribner: January 2006
Seller ID: 44004
ISBN: 074324754X
Condition: Used - Good
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an excitement addict. Cooking a meal that would... View more info
By: Joyce Hansen
Price: $2.95
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.: October 1997
Seller ID: 45630
ISBN: 0590849131
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By: Judith Zinsser
Price: $2.99
Publisher: Viking Adult: November 2006
Seller ID: 43645
ISBN: 0670038008
Condition: Used - Good
The scintillating life of the most brilliant woman of the French Enlightenment, the lover of Voltaire and translator of Newton Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy, married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in all the pleasures of her class. Then at twenty-seven, defying convention, she became the mistress of poet and playwright Voltaire, embarking on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual journey as his patroness, his lover, and his companion. In this sparkling life, Judith P. Zinsser vividly explores h... View more info
By: Jung Chang
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2003
Seller ID: 43672
ISBN: 0743246985
Condition: Used - Good
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, "Wild Swans" has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love. Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite... View more info
Price: $18.95
Publisher: Bookcraft: January 1984
Seller ID: 45580
ISBN: 0884945340
Condition: Used - Good
By: Lois Lenski
Price: $1.95
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.: January 2004
Seller ID: 45316
ISBN: 0439652103
Condition: Used - Good
