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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton · Flatiron Books Pages: 263 Format: Print book |
#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured... |
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Escaped with Honor
Charles Edward Layton · Redemption Press Pages: 158 Format: Print book |
Charles Layton spent most of his life searching-for a place to belong and for peace from his past. During a tumultuous upbringing, his parents and sister either ignored him or made life miserable. Then he was drafted into the Army. In 1951, he and thirty-six other soldiers were captured... |
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
Nadja Spiegelman · Riverhead Books Pages: 384 Format: Print book |
A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers,... |
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Moranifesto
Caitlin Moran · Harper Perennial Pages: 329 Format: Print book |
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces... |
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Marrow: A Love Story
Elizabeth Lesser · Harperwave Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant - one the donor and one the recipient - begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.A mesmerizing and courageous... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer · Gallery Books Pages: 323 Format: Print book |
#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
Leah Carroll · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 240 Format: Print book |
Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's... |
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
Charles Johnson · Scribner Pages: 233 Format: Print book |
From Charles Johnson - a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on literature and race - comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist,... |
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Sybrina Fulton · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 331 Format: Print book |
Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking... |
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Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag
Armando Valladares · Encounter Books Pages: 428 Format: Book |
Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag. Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Valladares was not released until 1982, by which time he had become one of the world's most... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House Pages: 440 Format: Print book |
"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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