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Sometimes referred to as "annualism," many memoirs document the details of ONE very special year in their lives or an experiment they performed. Here are some of them.
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Susan Hill - IPS - Profile Books
Format: Paperback
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Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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The Cloister Walk
Kathleen Norris
Format: Book
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Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that... |
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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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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
Mark Woods - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national... |
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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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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
Judith Levine - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats, entertainment? Funny, smart and self-deprecating,... |
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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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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich - Metropolitan Books
Format: Book
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired... |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that 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... |
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
David George Haskell - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies. Finalist for 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.Winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award. Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature.Runner-up for 2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary... |
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A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
Format: Book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's... |
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,... |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's... |
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