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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots	Adeline Yen Mah	The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A stor…	OL11706778W
On Gold Mountain	Lisa See	Documenting the history of her own Chinese-American family, a journalist shares the results of five years of research, including interviews with nearly one hundred Chinese and Caucasian relatives, in…	OL14927215W
A stolen life	Jaycee Lee Dugard	In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. …	OL15951491W
It's good to be alive	Jack L. Rushton	Autobiography of Jack Rushton, who at age 50 was in a surfing accident and paralyzed from the neck down.	OL15987952W
Small Fry	Lisa Brennan-Jobs	Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's…	OL18144320W
The man who listens to horses	Monty Roberts,Monty Roberts	Monty Roberts is a real life horse whisperer- an American original whose gentle training methods reveal the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung hor…	OL18557W
Another kind of madness	Stephen P. Hinshaw	"Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw would have never thought that in his family a profound secret had been kept under lock and key for 18 years. From the moment his father …	OL19714198W
The know-it-alls	Noam Cohen	Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regu…	OL19721804W
Good cop, bad daughter	Karen Lynch	"Karen Lynch was an unlikely person to become one of the first female cops in San Francisco. Raised by a counter-culture tribe in summer of love Haight-Ashbury, she was taught to despise "The Man." B…	OL19975596W
All dogs go to Kevin	Jessica Vogelsang	"A veterinarian discusses the lessons her beloved dogs have imparted on her throughout life,"--Novelist.	OL20006658W
Jornalero	Juan Thomas Ordóñez	"The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. These sites, typically frequented by immigrant Latin American men--mostly taken to be 'u…	OL20015645W
Dying to wake up	Rajiv Parti	"Describes how the author, a wealthy anesthesiologist, had a near-death experience that profoundly transformed his career, lifestyle and fundamental beliefs, explaining how the event offered insight …	OL20041747W
Zamba	Ralph Helfer	When Ralph Helfer, now one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection trainin…	OL2677962W
Fire Lover	Joseph Wambaugh	"Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr would watch in awe as firefighters scrambled to put out blazes with seeming disregard for their own lives. One day he would become a fireman himself, and a good o…	OL2941550W
Rancho Santa Margarita remembered	Jerome O'Neill Baumgartner	x, 170 p. : 23 cm	OL3244672W
Through a Portagee gate	Charles Reis Felix	Through a Portagee Gate is both an autobiography and a biography. It gives a remarkably honest self-portrait and an endearing tribute to the author’s father, a Portuguese immigrant cobbler who came…	OL5848547W
The Last Season (P.S.)	Eric Blehm	Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's …	OL5850234W
The Golden Road	Caille Millner	The true story of a remarkable young woman's struggle to find a home in the worldCaille Millner is a rising star on the literary scene. A graduate of Harvard University, she was first published at ag…	OL8052894W
Crazy for the storm	Norman Ollestad	Dad SaidOlestad, we can do it all....Why do you make me do this?Because it's beautiful when it all comes together.I don't think it's ever beautiful.One day.Never.We'll see, my father said. Vamanos.Fr…	OL806770W
A Brother's Journey	Richard B. Pelzer	Mom has no one like David around to beat on anymore. I am more afraid of her than ever...I get in more trouble for anything I do or say. Now I find that I'm always in trouble and I don't know why. No…	OL8135462W