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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is Alexander Berkman's account of his experience in prison in the U.S.

Memoirs of an Unfit Mother - Memoirs of an Unfit Mother is a 2001 autobiography written by Weakest Link host Anne Robinson, in which she describes her former drinking problem.

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a book by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928. It won the Hawthornden Prize and was immediately recognised as a classic of English literature.

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Memoirs For Life - Author writes memoirs or life story by serving as ghostwriter or editor. About memoirs, family histories, adoption books, his story and contact information. Charlottesville, VA.

Heinz's Memoirs - Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Heinz Vogel in six chapters. Also provides links to Holocaust resources.

B. R. A. Scott: Memoirs of the Civil War - Never before published, these memoirs may be of interest to historians, genealogists and Civil War buffs.

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Dream of Water: A Memoir by Kyoko Mori, ISBN 0449910431 : "POETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint." --The Wall Street Journal In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before. Throughout her seven-week trip, Kyoko struggles with her ever-present past and the lasting guilt over her mother's death. Although she meets with beloved cousins and other relatives, she agonizes over the frustrating relationship she barely maintains with her fierce father and selfish stepmother. Searching for answers, Kyoko attempts to find a new understanding of what her father is really like, and how it has affected her own place in two distinct worlds. As her time to leave draws near, Kyoko begins to understand that her family connections may be a powerful cry of the heart, but it is the new world that has given her escape...

Sky of Stone: A Memoir by Hickam, Homer H., Jr., ISBN 0440240921 : Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. "The New York Times crowned his first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky, "an eloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir." And "People called The Coalwood Way, Hickam's follow-up to October Sky, "a heartwarmer ... truly beautiful and haunting." Now Homer Hickam continues his extraordinary story with Sky of Stone, dazzling us with exquisite storytelling as he takes us back to that remarkable small town we first came to know and love in October Sky. In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, was dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny could reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother was spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man's death -- and the townspeople are in co...

Memoirs Of A Geisha / Something's Gotta Give (Exclusive) : Exclusive includes "Memoirs Of A Geisha" and "Something's Gotta Give" "Memoirs Of A Geisha" (Full Frame Version) - The director of "Chicago," Rob Marshall, transports us into a mysterious and exotic world that casts a potent spell. This stunning romantic epic shows how a house servant blossoms, against all odds, to become the most captivating geisha of her day. A Cinderella story like no other, "Memoirs Of A Geisha" stars Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li. "Something's Gotta Give" - Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a perennial playboy with a libido much younger than his years. During what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation, Marin (Amanda Peet), at her mother's Hamptons beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), a successful, divorced New York playwright. In the process, Harry develops more heart pangs-the romantic kind-for Erica, an age-appropriate woman whom he finds beguiling. However, some habits die hard. When Harry hesitates, his charming thirtysomething doctor...

Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Hickam, Homer H., Jr., ISBN 0385333218 : Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir -- a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true. With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph -- at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining.

Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman, ISBN 0812967089 : Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality. He sought a high wherever he could find one and changed jobs the way some people change outfits: filmmaker, PR agent, art dealer, stripper-whatever made him feel like a cartoon character, invincible and bright. Misdiagnosed by psychiatrists and psychotherapists for years, his condition exacted a terrible price: out-of-control euphoric highs and tornadolike rages of depression that put his life in jeopardy. Ignoring his crescendoing illness, Behrman struggled to keep up appearances, clinging to the golden-boy image he had cultivated in his youth. But when he turned to art forgery, he found himself the subject of a scandal lapped up by the New York media, then incarcerated, then under house arrest. And for the first time the golden boy didn't have a ready escape hatch from his unraveling life. Ingesting handfuls of antidepressants and tranquilizers and feeling his mind lose traction,...

Memoirs Of A Geisha/Little Women (CS) (Widescreen, Collector's Series) : Double Feature contains "Memoirs Of A Geisha" and "Little Women." "Memoirs Of A Geisha" - The director of "Chicago," Rob Marshall, transports us into a mysterious and exotic world that casts a potent spell. This stunning romantic epic shows how a house servant blossoms, against all odds, to become the most captivating geisha of her day. A Cinderella story like no other, "Memoirs Of A Geisha" stars Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li. "Little Women": Winona Ryder and Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (1995 Best Actress, "Dead Man Walking") star in this "affectionate, superbly acted" ("Los Angeles Times") family favorite. With her husband off at war, Marmee (Sarandon) is left alone to raise their four daughters, her "Little Women." There is the spirited Jo (Ryder); conservative Meg (Trini Alvarado, "Paulie"); fragile Beth (Claire Danes, "William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet"); and romantic Amy (played at different ages by Kristen Dunst, "Wag the Dog" and Samantha Mathis, "Broken Arrow"). As the years pass, the sisters share some of the most cherished and painful memories of ...

Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp : With acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular "Straight Up and Dirty" continues her memoir series with a funny and touching look at adolescence, sharing her memoires of a summer fat camp. Illustrated.

Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House : Seymour's wonderful memoir is a kind of posthumous conversation with her father. The end is particularly powerful. What a gripping, poignant, dramatic, emotionally searing memoir.--Joyce Carol Oates. 8-page b&w photo insert.

The Glass Castle: A Memoir : In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family.