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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
KELLY SUNDBERG · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"It is a hell of a thing to write about brutality and suffering with strength, grace, generosity and beauty. That's precisely what Kelly Sundberg has done in her gripping memoir about marriage and domestic violence. Sundberg's honesty is astonishing, how she laid so much of herself... |
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Calypso
David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast,... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil,... |
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The Unknowns
PATRICK O'DONNELL · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives... |
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Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas
TOM PAPA · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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It's hard being a person, especially in a family, and no one knows that better than stand-up comedian, family man, and Live From Here head writer and performer, Tom Papa.How do you deal with a life filled with a whole host of characters and their bizarre, inescapable behavior? Especially... |
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For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors
Laura Esther Wolfson · University Of Iowa Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard,... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA · Liveright
Pages: 640
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African... |
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
MARK KURLANSKY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's... |
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