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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Truthful biographies	Valerie Bodden	"An introduction to the ways that writers compose biographies and autobiographies. Excerpts and analysis help to explain the importance of honesty and detail in this nonfiction form"--Provided by pub…	OL15611274W
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
You can write an amazing journal	Jennifer Fandel	"Introduces readers to the how-tos of keeping a journal through the use of examples and exercises"--Provided by publisher.	OL16531753W
Something about the author	Thomson Gale	Volume 168.	OL17741128W
The Bright Hour	Nina Riggs	Riggs provides a memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' after her terminal cancer diagnosis.	OL19721897W
What remains	Karen Von Hahn	"Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn't quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and capti…	OL19754057W
Drawing blood	Molly Crabapple	The underground artist and journalist presents a memoir of her years between September 11 and the Occupy movement in New York City to discuss the impact of historical events on her work and her decis…	OL20018835W
In Such Good Company	Carol Burnett	In this New York Times bestseller, comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. In In Such Good Company, Ca…	OL20035128W
Lessons from the Edge	Marie Yovanovitch	xxii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm	OL21944215W
Man's Search for Meaning [adaptation]	Viktor E. Frankl	xvii, 159 pages : 23 cm	OL24557376W
The Endless Steppe	Esther Rudomin Hautzig	During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the f…	OL270319W
La rage de vivre	Mezz Mezzrow	Le clarinettiste M. Mezzrow (1899-1972) évoque le Chicago et le New York des années 1920, la prohibition et la crise économique, la musique et les Noirs, la drogue et la désintoxication ... Son autob…	OL27694422W
Truck of potatoes	Theresa Landry	"There are so many stories that I have to share that are a result of my upbringing, my home, schools I attended and my Catholic faith that the only way to do them justice is to continue the remainder…	OL27695990W
Le bonheur conjugal	Tahar Ben Jelloun	"Casablanca, début des années 2000. Un peintre, au sommet de sa gloire, se retrouve du jour au lendemain cloué dans un fauteuil roulant, paralysé par une attaque cérébrale. Sa carrière est brisée et …	OL28587784W
Lucy Thurston and Linda Arvidson	Lucy Thurston,Linda Arvidson,Gary Brin	This special edition of the autobiographies of Lucy Goodale Thurston and Linda Arvidson Griffith bring together the lives of two women at different times in American history. The life of Lucy Goodale…	OL28848317W
Warren Mundine in black + white	Warren Mundine	Overcoming segregation, discrimination, personal hardship and political betrayal Nyunggai Warren Mundine tells it all in black and white. Warren's raw, intimate success story shines a bright and insp…	OL35678890W
Something About the Author Autobiography Series	Joyce Nakamura	Volume 20.	OL4667499W
Something About the Author Autobiography Series	Joyce Nakamura	Volume 9.	OL4667502W
Daddy King	Martin Luther King, Sr.	An autobiography of the Reverend King describing his life and the lives of other members of his family.	OL6329523W
Faith and Courage in a Time of Trouble	France Pruitt As Told to Judy Priven	This book tells the story of a nominally Jewish Belgian family who spent more than four years during the Second World War as refugees in the south of France. The narrator was five years old when the …	OL9719681W