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Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 2 Jan 2007
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A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.

Self-Made Man : One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
by Norah Vincent
Hardcover: Jan 2006
Paperback: 26 Dec 2006
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Having gone where no woman (who wasn't an aspiring or actual transsexual) has gone for any significant length of time, let alone eighteen months, Norah Vincent's surprising account is an enthralling reading experience and a revelatory piece of anecdotally based gender analysis that is sure to spark fierce and fascinating conversation.

Teacher Man : A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Hardcover: Nov 2005
Paperback: 19 Sep 2006
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McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

Julie & Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006
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With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul!

The Tender Bar
by J.R. Moehringer
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 6 Aug 2006
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In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District
by Louise Brown
Hardcover: Aug 2005
Paperback: 1 Jul 2006
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With beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan.

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