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FROM: "Jean Meadors" <[removed]@ccpl.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/26/02, 4:02 PM
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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Julie Roberts
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:00 PM
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Subject: compiled list of non-fiction "real-life struggle" books
Hello all of you great Fiction_L'ers! Here is the compiled list of
non-fiction "real-life struggle" books. Some are my ideas and many are
yours. Thank you all for your great input and ideas! Julie A. Roberts
[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us
Armstrong, Lance - It's not about the bike (2 votes)
Baker, Ken - Man made: a memoir of my body
Bauby, Jean Dominique - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2 votes)
Beck, Martha Nibley - Expecting Adam: a true story of birth, rebirth,
and
everyday magic
Bragg, Rick - All over but the shoutin' & Ava's Man
Colapinto, John - As nature made him: the boy who was raised as a girl
Crimmins, C.E. - Where is the mango princess?
Delany, Sarah L. - On my own at 107
Delany, Sarah L. & A. Elizabeth - Having our say: the Delany Sisters'
first
100 years
Eggers, Dave - A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Ehrenreich, Barbara - Nickel and Dimed
Ellison, Brooke & Jean - Miracles happen (2 votes)
Gelman, Rita Golden - Tales of a female nomad : living at large in the
world
Grealy, Lucy - Autobiography of a face
Henderson, Carol - Losing Malcolm
Holtz, Lou -Winning every day : the game plan for success
Hope Magazine - Signs of hope : in praise of ordinary heroes?
Junger, Sebastian - The Perfect Storm
Keller, Helen - The story of my life and books about her
Killilea, Marie - Karen and With Love from Karen
Krakauer, Jon - Into thin air (2 votes)
Kusz, Natalie - Road Song
Mandela, Nelson - The long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson
Mandela
McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes & 'Tis
McCrum, Robert - My year off
McDermott, Jeanne - Baby face
Nielsen, Jerri - Ice Bound : a doctor's incredible battle for survival
at
the South Pole
Nissel, Angela - The Broke Diaries
Nolan, Christopher - Under the eye of the clock: a memoir
Pelzer. Dave -- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive and
others
Rawicz, Slavomir - The Long Walk
Reeve, Christopher - Still Me
Russell, Robert W - To catch an angel: adventures in the world I cannot
see
Ryan, Terry - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Shapiro, Dan - Mom's marijuana
Tynan, Ronan - Halfway home
Williams, Donna - Nobody nowhere: the extraordinary autobiography of an
autistic
_____________ -- Somebody somewhere : breaking free from the world of
autism
Woodwell, William H, Jr. - Coming to term: a father's story of birth,
loss
and survival
And, don't forget all the books by celebrities like Patti LaBelle, Della
Reese, Iyanla VanZant, Montel Williams, Oprah Winfrey and others! They
came through their struggles!
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