What Set Me Free (The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Brian Banks): A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed
By: Brian Banks
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
*The story that inspired the film Brian Banks * Discover the unforgettable and inspiring true stor…
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1. Dad Is Fat
By: Jim Gaffigan
3.50
Format: 218 pages, ebook
In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pock… read more
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2. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
By: Jeff Hobbs
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
What does the untimely death of one man mean? Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto know… read more
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3. Love Life
By: Rob Lowe
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Rob Lowe is back with stories he only tells his best friends. When Rob Lowe's first book was publis… read more
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4. Writing My Wrongs
By: Shaka Senghor
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In 1991, at the age of nineteen, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was a young drug dealer wi… read more
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5. Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian
By: Bob Saget
3.65
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the sma… read more
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6. The Crazy Game
By: Clint Malarchuk , Dan Robson
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of The Game and The Blind Side, a raw, raucous and unvarnished look at life between t… read more
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7. Persons Unknown (DS Manon, #2)
By: Susie Steiner
5.00
Format: 120 pages,
The sequel to Susie Steiner's bestselling MISSING, PRESUMED Manon has settled back into life in Cam… read more
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8. Food: A Love Story
By: Jim Gaffigan
3.71
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more
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"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
9. Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more
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"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
10. If You Would Have Told Me
By: John Stamos
3.81
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more
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11. We Are Not Like Them
By: Christine Pride
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Told from alternating perspectives, this novel follows two women, one Black and one white, whose fr… read more
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12. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more
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"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
13. Where the Blame Lies (Where, #1)
By: Mia Sheridan
4.33
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Abducted. Terrorized. Imprisoned. At nineteen-years-old, college student Josie Stratton was ki… read more
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14. That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
By: Mark Kenyon
4.10
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past… read more
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"There are some wild places across our nation's public lands that physically move you, creating a tightening in the chest, a loss of breath, or a tingling along the spine."-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"It was easy to see what Bundy and anti-public-land politicians really wanted: for public lands to be given to certain people. People who want land for their own gains--to mine it, graze it, drill it,…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savored. Coffee is sipped rather than drained. Making meals is less a chore and more an even…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"As much as I love hiking and hunting and fishing and camping, I might love the meals that follow just as much. The post-adventure meal is akin to a religious experience. It just cannot be beat. Every…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
15. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
By: Ian Manuel
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields [judges, prosecuto… read more
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16. An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
By: Annejet van der Zijl
3.73
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one… read more
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"If you no longer had a future, what else is there left but dreams of the past?"-Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
"If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again."-Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
17. Living in Color: What's Funny About Me: Stories from In Living Color, Pop Culture, and the Stand-Up Comedy Scene of the 80s & 90s
By: Tommy Davidson
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, Tommy Davidson burst onto the scene in the Emmy Award-winning show In Living Color , a pi… read more
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18. Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
By: Cyntoia Brown-Long
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brow… read more
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"..forgiveness doesn't mean someone needs to be part of your life. Forgiveness doesn't mean welcoming someone in with open arms, regardless of the fact that they continue to hurt you."-Cyntoia Brown-Long, Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
19. The Yards Between Us: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football
By: R.K. Russell
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking memoir from professional NFL player, writer, and advocate R.K. Russell, who made h… read more
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20. After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
By: Alice Marie Johnson
4.26
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted … read more
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21. What Set Me Free (The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Brian Banks): A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed
By: Brian Banks
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
*The story that inspired the film Brian Banks * Discover the unforgettable and inspiring true stor… read more
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