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Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew
Suzanne Berne - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Book
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Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father's terrible melancholy: he'd lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every family has a missing... |
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Drinking with Men: A Memoir
Rosie Schaap - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Book
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NPR "Best Books of 2013"BookPage Best Books of 2013Library Journal Best Books of 2013: MemoirFlavorwire 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds... |
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Ammon Shea - Penguin Group
Format: Book
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An obsessive word lover's account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. "I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on..." So reports Ammon Shea,... |
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Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir
Wendy Burden - Gotham Books
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Sean Wilsey's Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors, the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous... |
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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know
Heather Sellers - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. Heather Sellers is face-blind-that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware... |
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Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
Charlie Louvin - ItBooks
Format: Book
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Get ready for one of America's great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-century Southern gothic Cain and Abel and one of the greatest country duos of all time. The Los Angeles Times called them "the most influential harmony team in the history of country music,"... |
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Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Buzz Bissinger - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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A remarkable memoir from the best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.Buzz Bissinger's twins were born three minutes - and a world - apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has spent... |
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Cotton Tenants: Three Families
James Agee - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great... |
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