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Title: A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
In the midst of World War I, Lieutenant Frederic Henry falls in love with the beautiful British nurse, Catherine Barkley. It is a love that is powerful, but too fragile to keep.

Title: A Million Little Pieces
Author: James Frey
A Million Little Pieces is a partially-fabricated memoir by James Frey. It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug abuser and how he copes with rehabilitation in a Twelve Steps-oriented treatment center.

Title: A Place in the Country
Author: Laura Shaine Cunningham
Like a lot of city dwellers, the author of this memoir dreamed of a more tranquil, more civilized life in the country. This book tells of her bringing her vision into being, including her adjustment to wild animals, rural people, and the country way of doing things after a lifetime in New York City.

Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion, to the reign of the Taliban, to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.

Title: A Way of Life, Like Any Other
Author: Darcy O'Brien
A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a delightful semi-autobiographical book based on the childhood of author, Darcy O'Brien. His parents were both Hollywood stars in the 30s. His father was George O'Brien--also known as the Chest and he starred in many cowboy films--including She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Riders of the Purple Sage. Darcy O'Brien's mother was actress Marguerite Churchill.

Title: Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death
Author: Jim Wickwire,  Dorothy Bullitt
Among the world's most fearless climbers, Jim Wickwire (born 1940) is an attorney from Seattle, Washington, who was the first American to reach the top of K2, the world's second-highest mountain and the most difficult to climb. Deeply compelled by the thrill of risk, he pushed himself to the limits of physical and mental endurance for 35 years, before facing a turning point that threatened his faith in himself and his hope in the future. How he reassessed his priorities and rededicated his life--to his family and his community--completes a unique and moving portrait of one man's courage and commitment.

Title: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Author: Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is the latest in a series of autobiographical works by Maya Angelou. The book tells the author and her son's pilgrimage to Ghana in the 1960s. It chronicles the rejection done to her by the native Ghanaians and of fighting the painful truth of not being able to belong.

Title: Andrew Carnegie
Author: David Nasaw
Andrew Carnegie, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War, was America's first modern titan. In his magnificent biography, celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life this period of unprecedented transition -- a time of self-made millionaires, scabs, strikes, and a new kind of philanthropy -- through the fascinating rags-to-riches story of one of our most iconic business legends.

Title: Black Boy
Author: Richard Wright
Black Boy is an autobiography by Richard Wright. Depicting Wright's life in great detail, the book tells the story of his troubled youth and race relations in the South.

Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author: Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is the autobiography of United States Senator Barack Obama. It was published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began. The book was re-released in 2004 following Senator Obama's widely admired keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. The 2004 edition includes a new introduction by Senator Obama and a copy of his DNC keynote address.

Title: Dry
Author: Augusten Burroughs
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the underground, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight,...

Title: Gather Together in My Name
Author: Maya Angelou
This second book from Angelou's autobiographical series follows I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. With gripping poignancy, wisdom, and a fierce passion (dosed with a dash of humor) she tells the story of her life as a young black woman in 1940s

Title: Geisha of Gion
Author: Mineko Iwasaki
Geisha of Gion, autobiography, chronicles the author's experiences before, during, and after her time as a geiko.

Title: Girl, Interrupted
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In the book, Kaysen relates her experiences as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music.

Title: Good-Bye to All That
Author: Robert Graves
Good-bye to All That is the autobiography of Robert Graves. First published in 1929, the work is a landmark anti-war memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. The title expresses Graves' disillusionment in the existence of traditional, stable values in European and English society. Graves first wrote the work in his thirties, when he had a long and eventful life ahead of him, and the book deals mainly with his childhood, youth and military service.

Title: His Excellency: George Washington
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose 'statue-like solidity' concealed volcanic energies and emotions.

Title: House Calls in the Hills
Author: James W. Banks
A memoir of a country doctor who responds to the needs of people lacking running water, sanitation and basic health care.

Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Is a 1969 autobiographical novel about the early years of author Maya Angelou's life. The autobiography explores the isolation and loneliness faced by Angelou, and the attributes of her character that helped her cope with the prejudices of society. Quite graphic in nature, the text deals with issues including childhood, rape, racism, and sexism, some of which has generated controversy

Title: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Author: Hannah Green
Rejected by peers and to a certain extent by her family, victimised by anti-Semitism, and traumatised by painful surgery for a tumor of the urethra in early childhood, Deborah Blau is a highly intelligent and sensitive girl who perceives reality as innately cruel. At approximately age nine, during her third summercamp, she creates the Kingdom of Yr, an alternative dimensional world where she is respected as a queen.

Title: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
The purpose of Jon Krakauer’s book is to address the matter of young Christopher McCandless and his odd seclusion from society and a lifestyle that was all most people could ask for. Coming from a well to do background in the Washington D.C. area, McCandless always had privileges that few can claim. McCandless was just entering society, having graduated from Emory University, with more than $25,000 in savings and a family that loved him. The question of why he would completely break contact with all that he knew, give away everything he owned, and disappear to the Alaskan wilderness as a homeless man for two years drives Krakauer’s work.

Title: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Author: Humphrey Carpenter,  J.R.R. Tolkien
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books.

Title: John Adams
Author: David McCullough
Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough gives a complete biography of the life and times of John Adams, from his days at Harvard and his courtship of Abigail, through the American Revolution and birth of a nation, his days as Vice President and President, and ending with his reflections in retirement. Through extensive use of letters and journal entries, McCullough captures both the character of Adams and the spirit of the times in the founding days of the United States of America.

Title: Lincoln the Unknown
Author: Dale Carnegie
Abraham Lincoln, a farm boy, becomes the president of The United States. He humours his colleges in the White House while feeling like an imposter, and stays above his extremely difficult, even tragicomic marriage, while in war with the south.

Title: Little Wilson and Big God: The First Part of the Confession
Author: Anthony Burgess
Little Wilson and Big God, volume I of Anthony Burgess's autobiography, was first published by Heinemann in 1986.

Title: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Author: Richard Branson
Losing my Virginity is Richard Branson’s autobiographical treatise on his life, his founding and development of Virgin Records, his subsequent sale of that enterprise, and his eventual creation of other Virgin companies.
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