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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) , is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim... |
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Nikki Sixx - MTV/Pocket Books
Format: Paperback
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In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Cre's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki... |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion - Knopf
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From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several... |
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The Year of Pleasures: A Novel
Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Print book
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In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin... |
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The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling
Quinn Cummings - Penguin Group
Format: Hardcover
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A year of homeschooling. What could possibly go wrong? In this honest and wry memoir, popular blogger, author, and former child actor Quinn Cummings recounts her family's decision to wade into the unfamiliar waters of homeschooling - the fastest-growing educational trend of our time -- despite... |
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Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends
Pippa Middleton - Viking
Format: Print book
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In her first book, Middleton reveals the secrets to hosting a successful party with recipes, tips and detailed instructions on how to throw a memorable event in this comprehensive seasonal guide to simple and creative entertaining.
It is a useful, practical and inspiring journey into... |
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Growing at the Speed of Life: A Year in the Life of My First Kitchen Garden
Graham Kerr - Penguin
Format: Hardcover
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With more than two dozen cookbooks and hundreds of television shows, lectures, and personal appearances devoted to promoting healthful cooking, award-winning chef and former "Galloping Gourmet" Graham Kerr literally starts from the ground up in this engaging, inspiring, and highly... |
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
Nina Sankovitch - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." - Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzedby the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year... |
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Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes
Andrea Reusing - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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For Andrea Reusing - an award-winning chef, a leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, and a working mother - "cooking in the moment" simply means focusing on one meal at a time. Tender spring broccoli given a smoky char on the grill, a summer berry pudding with cold cream,... |
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365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
John Kralik - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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One recent December, at age 53, John Kralik found his life at a terrible, frightening low: his small law firm was failing; he was struggling through a painful second divorce; he had grown distant from his two older children and was afraid he might lose contact with his young daughter; he was living... |
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My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir
Noelle Hancock - Ecco
Format: Book
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After losing her high-octane job as an entertainment blogger, Noelle Hancock was lost. About to turn twenty-nine, she'd spent her career writing about celebrities' lives and had forgotten how to live her own. Unemployed and full of self-doubt, she had no idea what she wanted out of life.... |
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Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
Katherine Ellison - Voice
Format: Hardcover
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"An absorbing, sharply observed memoir." - Kirkus ReviewsA hilarious and heartrending account of one mother's journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son - a true story sure to beguile parents grappling with a child's bewildering behavior.Popular... |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide,... |
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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes - Audioworks
Format: Audiobook
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The mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder chronicles how saying YES for one year changed her life -- and how it can change yours, too.With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the uber-talented... |
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My Year of Meats: A Novel
Ruth L Ozeki - Viking
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When Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job--producing a Japanese television show sponsored by BEEF-EX, an organization promoting the export of U.S. meats--she takes her crew on the road in search of all-American wives cooking all-American meat. Over the course of filming, though, Jane... |
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding... |
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Piper Kerman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced... |
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Alisa Smith - Harmony Books
Format: Hardcover
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Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around them. They caught a trout, picked mushrooms, and mulled apples... |
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Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry - Harper
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of Population: 485 and Truck: A Love Story comes a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse -- faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife... |
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