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Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom 4 reviews
Unita Blackwell, Joanne Prichard Morris
Crown, 2006
best of the year
+ Barefootin'
+ What a Life Story !
+ A Feast of Human Drama
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The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary 54 reviews
Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman, ...
Grand Central Publishing, 2006
Real Life
+ Good book
As a middle school teacher, I was very excited to read this book. Not only was it the real deal, but it's filled with all of the things that I hear inside the classroom, in the hallways, and outside the building from my students. If some parents want to know what most teens are really talking ...
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History25 reviews
Jonathan Franzen
Picador, 2007
Discomfort and Revelation
These autobiographical essays teeter between personal revelation and keeping the reader at arm's length and the discussion at an intellectual level. Franzen describes in unforgiving detail how he chose the wrong realtor to sell his mother's house. We see him fall for the flirtatious sales pitch ...
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival 203 reviews
Anderson Cooper
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
Such an honest account!
+ Dispatches From the Edge
+ Excellent
+ Liked AC before - respect him (more) now
+ Dispatches from the Edge
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Mixed: My Life in Black and White19 reviews
Angela Nissel
Villard, 2006
Wonderful insight into the minds of us mixed folk.
+ Hilarious
+ Don't Worry, Be Happy
+ (RAW Rating: 4.5) -
+ Amazing book on race and race relations
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Daughter of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India4 reviews
Asha Miro
Atria, 2007
A journey into the past and a search for one's birth identity
+ Eloquent and Touching Account of Search and Reunion
+ Warm Reading About Adoption
+ A bestseller in Spain
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But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous45 reviews
Jancee Dunn
HarperCollins, 2006
Jancee, I love you!
+ Charming Memoir
+ n.j. is "now jancee"
+ I really liked this book
+ Awesomely 90's
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A Strong West Wind: A Memoir 23 reviews
Gail Caldwell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
I knew her when...
+ It Ain't Little House on the Prairie
+ The Wind Blows Literally
+ We are always coming to be
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story (Vintage) 28 reviews
Ken Dornstein
Vintage, 2007
20 Years since Lockerbie!
+ A True Tale of Grief
+ Highly Recommended
+ There's nothing I can say that will do this justice
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir27 reviews
Janice Erlbaum
Villard, 2007
Loved it!
+ second one first
+ so much better than expected
Taken through the teenage life of the author in the 1980's Regan-era it was interesting to read what it was like to live in a homeless shelter during that time - especially since being homeless was just coming into the public eye as a real problem in America.
Janice writes a thought-provoking ...
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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors5 reviews
Bernice Eisenstein
Riverhead Trade, 2007
In one reading -- an Amazing Book -- Mazel Tov
+ Great Service
+ Illuminating and moving book
+ Insightful yet tragic... the Holocaust continues to shape people
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival203 reviews
Anderson Cooper
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
Such an honest account!
+ Dispatches From the Edge
+ Excellent
+ Liked AC before - respect him (more) now
+ Dispatches from the Edge
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir27 reviews
Janice Erlbaum
Villard, 2007
Loved it!
+ second one first
+ so much better than expected
Taken through the teenage life of the author in the 1980's Regan-era it was interesting to read what it was like to live in a homeless shelter during that time - especially since being homeless was just coming into the public eye as a real problem in America.
Janice writes a thought-provoking ...
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story (Vintage)28 reviews
Ken Dornstein
Vintage, 2007
20 Years since Lockerbie!
+ A True Tale of Grief
+ Highly Recommended
+ There's nothing I can say that will do this justice
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Daughter of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India4 reviews
Asha Miro
Atria, 2007
A journey into the past and a search for one's birth identity
+ Eloquent and Touching Account of Search and Reunion
+ Warm Reading About Adoption
+ A bestseller in Spain
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But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous45 reviews
Jancee Dunn
HarperCollins, 2006
Jancee, I love you!
+ Charming Memoir
+ n.j. is "now jancee"
+ I really liked this book
+ Awesomely 90's
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History25 reviews
Jonathan Franzen
Picador, 2007
Discomfort and Revelation
These autobiographical essays teeter between personal revelation and keeping the reader at arm's length and the discussion at an intellectual level. Franzen describes in unforgiving detail how he chose the wrong realtor to sell his mother's house. We see him fall for the flirtatious sales pitch ...
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Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom4 reviews
Unita Blackwell, Joanne Prichard Morris
Crown, 2006
best of the year
+ Barefootin'
+ What a Life Story !
+ A Feast of Human Drama
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A Strong West Wind: A Memoir23 reviews
Gail Caldwell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
I knew her when...
+ It Ain't Little House on the Prairie
+ The Wind Blows Literally
+ We are always coming to be
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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors5 reviews
Bernice Eisenstein
Riverhead Trade, 2007
In one reading -- an Amazing Book -- Mazel Tov
+ Great Service
+ Illuminating and moving book
+ Insightful yet tragic... the Holocaust continues to shape people
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