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Book recommendations?
I’m interested in books in the travel/ culture/ autobiography area, focusing on cultural differences and living in certain cultures, especially oriental or african ones.
I’ve read “Memoirs of a Geisha”, “Not without my Daughter” by Betty Mahmoody, “Burned Alive” by Suad and “The White Masai” by Corinne Hofmann and I’m currently looking for similar books.
Any ideas?
Chuck Norris – then i’d better start reading asap LMAO
i’m too young and pretty to die 
The Long Way Round – travel book by Ewen McGregor
Wild Swans by Jung Chan
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Whale Rider (can’t remember author – read the book or see the film)
They may not be your kind of books but they’re interesting ones.
Terry Pratchett should be read just for fun as his books are laugh out loud – good for you when you need a lift.
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Lady Sings the Blues $9.65 Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/08/2005… |
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False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground (Music Culture) $17.00 From 1988 through 1993, guitarist/vocalist Steven Taylor toured the U.S. and Europe with the alternative rock group False Prophets, keeping a detailed journal with the intent of documenting the role of musicians in the international anarchist youth movement. His fieldnotes form the core of the book, accounting with honesty and aplomb the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing, always engaging hi… |
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Ice Opinion $6.88 Hoping to inspire conversation and provocative opinions, the controversial rap artist provides his views on the ghetto, riots, success, free speech, education, art, and other important facets of life. Read by Ice-T. Book available…. |
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman $5.94 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN:30 – DVD Movie… |
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biography – Mao Tse Tung: China’s Peasant Emperor $10.94 MAO TSE TUNG – DVD Movie… |
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Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century $14.20 AWARDED THE KIRKUS STAR! NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS’ BEST OF 2011 LIST! INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST IN TWO memoir CATEGORIES! An extended Italian immigrant family clings to community life amid tragedy, the Spanish flu, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. A broken Polish immigrant family leaves a legacy of heartbreak, separation, Civilian Conservation Corps redemption, and World War II heroism. From… |
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Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras $3.19 Jeff Henderson was just another inner-city black kid born into a world of poverty and limited options, where crime seemed to provide the only way to get out. Raised mostly by his single mother, who struggled just to keep food on the table, Jeff dreamed big. He had to get out and he soon did by turning to what so many in his community did: dealing drugs. But Jeff was no ordinary drug dealer; by tw… |
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Kindred Spirits: Four Hundred Years of an American Family $9.04 Kindred Spirits is an engaging memoir about family and an urgent quest for identity—uncovering the deep ancestral history of one ordinary-seeming American family whose past is revealed with unprecedented sweep, detail, and clarity.Bellamy’s genealogical odyssey will be a revelation to anyone interested in his or her own family story or to anyone who has ever wondered what it would mean to mee… |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Herself This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery…. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks $16.00 Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. … |
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Autobiography of a Wardrobe $11.99 Saddle shoes. Camp shorts. Girdles. Bell-bottoms. Each plays a significant role as we follow B., the wardrobe’s owner, through her buttoned-up Midwestern childhood to the freedom of miniskirts, sundresses, and New York City. We watch as B. copes with the untimely death of her mother, makes a go of glamorous magazine work, and, after the inevitable false starts and fashion missteps, finally comes into her own.Part memoir, part fashion and cultural history of the last five decades , Autobiography of a Wardrobe is an exploration of the clothes each generation has embraced and the smallest details in which we are able to seek comfort and meaning. From the Trade paperback edition. |
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An Autobiography $6.99 The autobiography of the queen of mystery, agatha christie. |
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Autobiography $31.95 In this humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life – introducing the people, events and influences that shaped the man he was to become. Autobiography is a revealing recollection of a truly extraordinary life. |