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Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances

10 best books like Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances (Fred Thompson): iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography, Nothing Was the Same, Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, America, You Sexy Bitch, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story, A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga, Tip It!: The World According to Maggie

iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
AuthorJeffrey S. Young
ISBN0471787841
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
AuthorSteve Wozniak
ISBN0393330435
"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive."—Bookpage

Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in "the most...
A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography
AuthorJeff Corwin
ISBN0142414034
A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin!

From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Award-winning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand...
Nothing Was the Same
AuthorKay Redfield Jamison
ISBN0307265374
From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate...
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
AuthorDana Milbank
ISBN0385533888
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
America, You Sexy Bitch
AuthorMeghan McCain
ISBN0306821001
She is a single, twentysomething, gun-loving, Christian, Republican writer and blogger, the daughter of a Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee. He is a married, forty-year-old, gun-fearing, atheist, Democrat comedian, the son of a lesbian former Social Security employee. Meghan...
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
AuthorAnnabelle Gurwitch
In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.
 
After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and...
A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
AuthorNorris Church Mailer
ISBN1400067944
A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer’s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband’s—and every bit as engaging.

Growing...
We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga
AuthorPaul Shaffer
ISBN0385524838
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.

How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights...
Tip It!: The World According to Maggie
AuthorMaggie Griffin
ISBN1401324045
Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. 1. My daughter Kathy put out her memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And it got to be a #1 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! But now it's my turn. I've written my own book. I have...
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
AuthorPaula Butturini
ISBN1594488975
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.

Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four...
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir
AuthorHelena Andrews
ISBN0061778826
Strong, sassy, always surprising—and titled after a Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” monologue by Tina Fey—Bitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter…...
Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
AuthorDaniel Asa Rose
ISBN0061708704
“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”
—Boston Globe

 

Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant,...
Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
AuthorCybill Shepherd
ISBN0060193506
From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside view of network sit-com madness, the irrepressible show biz icon tells all in her own inimitable, no-holds-barred fashion.
-- Cybill is a bona fide star with millions of fans -- a hero to middle aged...
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