A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

• ISBN13: 9781400052295
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Product Description
There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness.

Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.

And that’s when things got interesting….


You have in your hands the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. ... More >>

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

• ISBN13: 9780061173004
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Product Description
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a... More >>

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

• ISBN13: 9780812979305
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Product Description
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to spe... More >>

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Confessions of a Video Vixen

• ISBN13: 9780060842420
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Product Description
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kel... More >>

Confessions of a Video Vixen

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels, The Critical Edition with Complete Novels and 300+ Pages of Historical Materials

Product Description
ANNOTATED:

* Contains literary critiques, detailed biographies, and detailed historical context


SPECIAL CRITICAL, COMPLETE, AND UNABRIDGED EDITION OF CHARLES DICKENS' GREATEST NOVELS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES & GREAT EXPECTATIONS

This special critical edition of Charles Dickens' classic great novel A Tale of Two Cities is the only volume currently available that contains:

* The complete, unabridged novel A Tale of Two Cities, with a crit... More >>

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels, The Critical Edition with Complete Novels and 300+ Pages of Historical Materials

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

• ISBN13: 9780143114932
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Product Description
In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs

First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and captured the world's attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness-and participat... More >>

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Product Description
Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history. Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswom... More >>

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love