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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper · 1897 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief. Shares Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir, History

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Marshall Field's Gayle Soucek · 2010 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 155 p. : 23 cm Shares Chicago, Biography & Memoir, History

County Ansell, David MD · 2010 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. COUNTY covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the… Shares Chicago, Biography & Memoir, History

The art of making money Jason Kersten · 2009 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who “made” millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn’t buy him: family.Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her… Shares Chicago, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Alcatraz Frederick Faust · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir with this book.

History of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt Jacob Abbott · 1851 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Nonfiction, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir, History with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

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