Memoirs: Beautiful, Weird, Experimental, But Not Celebrity (An Education)

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Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much
Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much 3.44 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I 4.13 avg rating — 738 ratings
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In Pursuit of Dead Georgians: One Historian's Excursions into the History of His Adopted State
In Pursuit of Dead Georgians: One Historian's Excursions into the History of His Adopted State 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Red Dust Road
Red Dust Road 3.93 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir 3.94 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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Beyond the Wave: a Tsunami Survivor's Story
Beyond the Wave: a Tsunami Survivor's Story 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
Alligator Candy: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
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Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South
A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South 4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
by: Ulli Lust
3.94 avg rating — 3,132 ratings
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Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States
Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States
by: Sao Sanda
3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Dimestore: A Writer's Life
by: Lee Smith
3.87 avg rating — 3,403 ratings
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Man Ray's Montparnasse
Man Ray's Montparnasse 4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! 3.96 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst
The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst 3.81 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Opium: The Diary of His Cure
Opium: The Diary of His Cure 3.77 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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Growing Up Cuban in Decatur, Georgia
Growing Up Cuban in Decatur, Georgia 4.31 avg rating — 64 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge 4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
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The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record
The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record 3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings
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This Must be the Place
This Must be the Place 3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget 4.04 avg rating — 22,968 ratings
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Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown 4.13 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours
Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours 3.74 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,425 ratings
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Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer
Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer 3.51 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
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Democrazy: A True Story of Weird Politics, Money, Madness, and Finger Food
Democrazy: A True Story of Weird Politics, Money, Madness, and Finger Food 3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Daughter of Earth
Daughter of Earth 4.11 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by: Loung Ung
4.20 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
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A Painter's Journey: 1966 - 1973
A Painter's Journey: 1966 - 1973 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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When I Was a Turkey
When I Was a Turkey
by: Joe Hutto
3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Her Father's Daughter
Her Father's Daughter 3.94 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Leaving Before the Rains Come 3.80 avg rating — 6,529 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
by: Amy Kelly
3.95 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life 3.55 avg rating — 20,069 ratings
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Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
by: Tracy Vo
3.76 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son 3.22 avg rating — 6,454 ratings
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The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible
The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible 3.75 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Driving with Dead People
Driving with Dead People 3.86 avg rating — 5,918 ratings
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A Beautiful Here: Emerging From The Overwhelming Darkness Of My Son's Suicide
A Beautiful Here: Emerging From The Overwhelming Darkness Of My Son's Suicide 4.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, A Daughter and the Healing Power of Music
The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, A Daughter and the Healing Power of Music 4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,263 ratings
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Mad World of William M. Gaines
The Mad World of William M. Gaines 4.32 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Fierce Attachments
Fierce Attachments 4.04 avg rating — 18,559 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Name All the Animals: A Memoir
Name All the Animals: A Memoir 3.68 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey 4.14 avg rating — 1,777 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You 4.18 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar
Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar 3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,957 ratings
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Going Down to the River: A Homeless Musician, an Unforgettable Song, and the Miraculous Encounter that Changed a Life
Going Down to the River: A Homeless Musician, an Unforgettable Song, and the Miraculous Encounter that Changed a Life 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran 3.80 avg rating — 333 ratings
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,658 ratings
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time 3.75 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Between Panic and Desire
Between Panic and Desire 3.74 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran 3.79 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir 3.80 avg rating — 21,837 ratings
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Picking Up The Flute: A Memoir With Music
Picking Up The Flute: A Memoir With Music 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Shutterbabe
Shutterbabe 3.99 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening 3.89 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music
Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Real Man Adventures
Real Man Adventures
by: T. Cooper
3.68 avg rating — 405 ratings
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On the Move: A Life
On the Move: A Life 4.03 avg rating — 21,246 ratings
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Along the Cherry Lane: Tales from the Life of Music Industry Legend Milton Okun
Along the Cherry Lane: Tales from the Life of Music Industry Legend Milton Okun 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Reeva: A Mother's Story
Reeva: A Mother's Story 3.95 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Ordinary Light
Ordinary Light 3.94 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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The Rhino Records Story: The Revenge of the Music Nerds
The Rhino Records Story: The Revenge of the Music Nerds 3.77 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Scattered Pearls
Scattered Pearls 3.76 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul 4.25 avg rating — 263 ratings
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This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life 3.97 avg rating — 30,190 ratings
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Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime 4.05 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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Gigs, Guns, and Guilt: A Musician's Tour of the Korean War
Gigs, Guns, and Guilt: A Musician's Tour of the Korean War 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran
Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran 4.21 avg rating — 14,317 ratings
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Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning
Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning 3.64 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
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The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir
The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir 3.46 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,840 ratings
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White Butterflies
White Butterflies 4.44 avg rating — 150 ratings
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White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
by: Joe Boyd
4.01 avg rating — 2,798 ratings
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An Anzac's Story
An Anzac's Story
by: Roy Kyle
3.80 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Riding in Cars with Boys
Riding in Cars with Boys 3.77 avg rating — 9,836 ratings
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Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture
Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture 4.09 avg rating — 170 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings
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The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father 3.87 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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Suwannee Notes: A Musician's Journey
Suwannee Notes: A Musician's Journey really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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America Over The Water: A Musical Journey With Alan Lomax
America Over The Water: A Musical Journey With Alan Lomax 4.34 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Hush Child, Can't You Hear the Music?
Hush Child, Can't You Hear the Music? 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Belfast Girl: A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America
A Belfast Girl: A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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On the Guest List: Adventures of a Music Journalist
On the Guest List: Adventures of a Music Journalist 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legaciesincludes audio CD
Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legaciesincludes audio CD really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South
Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South
by: Mark Kemp
3.96 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Kinds of Blue: An Anthology of Comics about Depression
Kinds of Blue: An Anthology of Comics about Depression 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales from the Spinner Rack
Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales from the Spinner Rack
by: Rob Kelly
4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
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