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. . . you might like these:

Alive
Piers Paul Read (plane crash)

All Over but the Shoutin’
Rick Bragg (Alabama)

A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood
Richard Rhodes

Into the Wild
John Krakauer (Alaska)

The Liar’s Club
Mary Karr (memoir)

In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
Madeline Blais (high school basketball)

. . . you might like these:

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt (Savannah, Georgia)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks (neurology)

The Perfect Storm
Sebastian Junger

Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen

Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat

Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
Bailey White

Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt

. . . you might like these:

Undaunted Courage
Stephen Ambrose

A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel Bailey White

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
Steven Callahan

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing

Rachel and her children: Homeless Families in America
Jonathan Kozol

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8/2/07