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Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs, She Thinks I'm A Piano Player In A Whorehouse
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Include books by the same authorWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris · 321 pages
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Anthony Bourdain · 288 pages
The long-awaited follow-up to the megabestseller Kitchen ConfidentialIn the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business—and for Anthony Bourdain.Medium Raw explores these changes, moving bac
Castaway
Lucy Irvine · 400 pages
Recounts the adventure of a couple living on an island in the Coral Sea north of Australia. Tells what happened to them emotionally after being forced to marry by the Australian government.
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry · 292 pages
The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track."All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry strugg
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
Tracy Slater · 323 pages
"In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy had carefully constructed a life she loved in her beloved hometown of Boston. But everything was upended when she fell head
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Don Borchert · 232 pages
Here is a ringside seat for the unlikely spectacle of mayhem and absurdity that is business as usual at the public library. Cops bust drug dealers who've set up shop in the men's restroom, a burka-wearing employee suffers a curse-ridden nervous breakdown, and a lonely, neglected kid who grew up in the library still sends postcards to his surrogate parents -- the librarians. From the first page of
An Education: My Life Might Have Turned Out Differently if I Had Just Said No
Lynn Barber · 200 pages
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton · 368 pages
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding
Blood, Sweat and Tea
Tom Reynolds · 272 pages
Is there anyone who hasnt wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? And have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance? Meet Tom Reynolds, an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 and his award-winning
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
The Lord God Made Them All
James Herriot · 376 pages
Continues the memoirs of Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, as life for Herriot, his wife, and two children gets back to normal after World War II.
Too Close To The Falls: A Memoir
Catherine Gildiner · 350 pages
"Meet Cathy - she started full-time work at four to cure her hyperactivity. Her best friend is 30 years older and obsessed with gambling; her mother looks the part of a perfect 50s housewife but refuses to play it; while her workaholic father has been chosen by most of her class as Lewiston's present-day saint. She's met the town abortionist, delivered sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe, stabbed the
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Matthew Polly · 359 pages
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to find a
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
Lori L. Tharps · 206 pages
Double Cup Love
Eddie Huang · 218 pages
"As he entered adulthood (of sorts), Huang began to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really was, a dilemma that grew more acute as he contemplated proposing marriage to his all-American (well, all-Italian-American) girlfriend. So he enlisted his brothers Emery and Evan and returned to the land his ancestors had abandoned. His immediate goal was to sample the best food in China, from
The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry · 448 pages
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, Charles Neider · 388 pages
An autobiography in which American author Mark Twain, writing from his deathbed, tells the story of his life and experiences.
Dirty Sexy Politics
Meghan McCain · 194 pages
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding · 221 pages
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Firoozeh Dumas · 240 pages
In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums, all told with insights into the universality of the
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl · 176 pages
Boy is an autobiographical book by British writer Roald Dahl. This book describes his life from birth until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career. It ends with his first job, working for Royal Dutch Shell. His autobiography continues in the book Going So