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1. The glass castle: a memoir

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Author:
Walls, Jeannette
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The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. 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...

2. In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

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Author:
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
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An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers.

3. Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea

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Demick, Barbara
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Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.