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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Anchor
Anchor
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found...
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
Julia Reed
Ecco
Ecco
Julia Reed went to New Orleans in 1991 to cover the reelection of former (and currently incarcerated) governor Edwin Edwards. Seduced by the city's sauntering pace, its rich flavors and exotic atmosphere, she was never entirely able to leave...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Bill Bryson
Broadway
Broadway
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Bill Bryson
Broadway
Broadway
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle...
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Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
Ralph Moody
Bison Books
Bison Books
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics,...
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Why I Came West: A Memoir
Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
A passionate memoir about the great divides in Rick Bass's beloved Yaak Valley, the West as a whole, and himself. A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers,Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass...
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Ava's Man
Rick Bragg
Vintage
Vintage
The same fierce pride and love that animated All Over but the Shoutin' glow in Rick Bragg's new book. In fact, he informs us in the prologue that it was the readers of his bestselling 1997 memoir about his mother's struggle to raise three sons out...
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (World As Home, The)
Janisse Ray
Milkweed Editions
Milkweed Editions
The scrubby forests of southern Georgia, dotting a landscape of low hills and swampy bottoms, are not what many people would consider to be exalted country, the sort of place to inspire lyrical considerations of nature and culture. Yet that is just...
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Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska
Seth Kantner
Milkweed Editions
Milkweed Editions
His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from...
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