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"Zach goes directly to the map section. He always goes there. I have never seen him go anyplace else in a bookstore." ~ from Buzz Bissinger's Father's Day
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| The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love from Iran to America by Rahimeh AndalibianBuilt near a popular holy landmark in Iran's second largest city, the luxurious Rose Hotel found success immediately. Young Rahimeh Andalibian and her wealthy family lived in a rose- and jasmine-scented oasis on the grounds of their business, but less than five years after the hotel's opening, the 1979 Iranian Revolution began. In the chaos, a rape and a murder occurred that had devastating, long-lasting effects on the Andalibian family. Eventually, they fled the place they loved, going first to Tehran, then London, before ending up in California, where they struggled with old trauma and a new world. This "powerful and uplifting memoir of tragedy and healing" (Kirkus Reviews) provides eye-opening insight into a fascinating, complex country and the struggles of immigrants. |
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| Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes by Elizabeth BardIf you enjoyed Lunch in Paris, get ready for a Picnic in Provence. American author Elizabeth Bard's second memoir traces her and her French husband's impulsive move from Paris to a small town in Southern France...when she's six months pregnant. Having bought the charming former home of French Resistance leader and poet René Char, the couple settled in, met their new neighbors, enjoyed nature, savored delicious foods, and opened an artisan ice cream shop. Oh, and they welcomed their new bébé! Bring both your literary and your gastronomic appetite -- this delightful, food-centric book (recipes are included) will have you salivating. |
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| Eating Viêt Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table by Graham Holliday; foreword by Anthony BourdainThough his first taste of Vietnamese street food didn't go well -- "as the pig's uterus landed on the blue plastic table in front of me, I knew I'd made a mistake" -- British journalist Graham Holliday persevered. Having moved to Vietnam, a land infused with enticing smells and tastes, he set out to find authentic Vietnamese street food. The recommendations he received led him all over the country and introduced him to many remarkable people, including his wife. Even if you don't like pho, you might like this; Publishers Weekly calls Eating Viêt Nam a "wry, entertaining food and travel memoir." |
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| Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert PodellIn this "jokey, politically incorrect, thoughtful and continuously engaging chronicle" (Wall Street Journal), lawyer and former magazine editor Albert Podell describes some of the exciting adventures he experienced as he traveled through 196 (!) countries. Podell, who drove around the world with a friend and co-wrote a successful book about it in the 1960s called Who Needs a Road?, didn't take the easy way either; he used local transportation and tried to scratch beneath the surface of the places he visited. Fans of adventurous travel tales will want to read this extraordinary book, which describes encounters with dangerous animals in Botswana, eating monkey brains in Hong Kong, almost drowning in Costa Rica, and so much more. |
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Focus on Fathers and Sons
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The father of all things : a Marine, his son, and the legacy of Vietnam
by Tom Bissell
The author of God Lives in St. Petersburg describes his and his war veteran father's odyssey to Vietnam some forty years after serving during the war, offering a fascinating glimpse of a land that had shaped both of their lives while reflecting on his father's war experience and the war's continuing political, cultural, and personal influence. 35,000 first printing.
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When a crocodile eats the sun : a memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin
Traces how the author routinely traveled between his Manhattan home to Zimbabwe to check on his aging parents, visits during which he witnessed the African region's dramatic descent into a social and political turmoil that eventually revealed to the author his parents' secret about their loyalty to the area.
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| My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past by Ariel SabarWhen his own first child was born, Los Angeles-raised journalist Ariel Sabar slowly began to better understand his father, Yona, with whom he had always clashed, and so he decided to explore his father's remarkable roots. Yona, a UCLA professor, was born into an enclave of Aramaic-speaking Kurdish Jews who were forced from their homes in the mountains of northern Iraq and moved to Israel in the 1950s. In 2005, Ariel visited Israel and Iraq in order to learn more about and reconnect with his family's ancestral past. While this National Book Critics Circle Award-winner isn't a standard travelogue, it is a "graceful and resonant" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir that fans of Jewish or Iraqi history will particularly enjoy. |
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