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Biography and Memoir March 2017
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All at sea : a memoir
by Decca Aitkenhead
A memoir from an award-winning journalist at The Guardian describes how her life changed forever when her boyfriend was swept out to sea attempting to save her 4-year old son from a rogue wave in Jamaica.
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Civilianized : a young veteran's memoir
by Michael Anthony
A young veteran's account of returning to civilian life while struggling with PTSD describes the addiction and trauma that caused him to contemplate suicide, tracing his search for meaning in a profoundly destabilized world. By the author of Mass Casualties. 20,000 first printing.
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She's not there : a life in two genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
A remarkable memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.
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Bandit : a daughter's memoir
by Molly Brodak
Raw and powerful, the author, whose father was a con man and bank robber, recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with the man she only half knew, who led a double life, and make peace with the parts of herself that she inherited from him. Original.
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| Rise : how a house built a family by Cara BrookinsTells the amazing story of a woman who, having escaped an abusive marriage but having no home to live in, enlisted the help of a small bank loan and a work crew consisting only of her and her four children to build a family home from the ground up, in the amazing story of the healing of a broken family. |
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Some sort of epic grandeur : the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
by Matthew J. Bruccoli
The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated; Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its thoroughness and volume of information.
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A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
by Michael D'Antonio
In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, the author offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama. Includes 47 charts and graphs. By a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Kit Kat and Lucy : the country cats who changed a city girl's world
by Lonnie Hull DuPont
DuPont reluctantly traded her apartment on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco for a farmhouse on a quiet plain in Michigan. The isolation country living brings has her longing for something more. Enter Kit Kat and Lucy-- stray cats who arrive at the farmhouse a year apart and bring a new light to DuPont's life. The heartwarming story of how Kit Kat and Lucy changed one woman's world will leave readers enchanted.
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Attending : medicine, mindfulness, and humanity
by Ronald Epstein
A general-public guide to mindfulness as part of a safe, patient-centered health-care and medical practice describes the renowned author's perspective-changing experiences as a Harvard Medical student at the sides of doctors who practiced in very different ways.
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Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
by Robert Greenfield
The award-winning author of S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones traces the life of the Grateful Dead benefactor and LSD chemist who played an indelible role in 1960s counterculture, describing how he helped finance and record the band's early work.
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Greetings from utopia park : surviving a transcendent childhood
by Claire Hoffman
A journalist describes her experiences as a jaded, skeptical teenager growing up in a secluded utopia in Iowa, Maharishi's National Headquarters for Heaven on Earth, which promoted Transcendental Meditation as a path to peace and enlightenment. 30,000 first printing.
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You Will Not Have My Hate
by Antoine Leiris; translated by Sam Taylor
On November 13, 2015, terrorists attacked several locations in Paris, France. That evening, author Antoine Leiris was at home with his 17-month-old toddler while his wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, attended a concert at the Bataclan theater. The terrorists killed 89 people there, including Hélène. In this brief and heartrending memoir, Leiris offers a moving chronicle of that evening and the following days, during which he struggled to comprehend his loss, tried to establish a new-normal routine with his son, and addressed the terrorists in a Facebook post titled "You Will Not Have My Hate." This portrait of bereavement will speak to many who have suffered loss or observed its effects on friends and family.
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The Madwoman in the Volvo
by Sandra Tsing Loh
A writer, performer and contributing editor to The Atlantic humorously chronicles her experiences going through menopause while dealing with the end of her marriage, her preteen daughters, and the hijinks of her 89-year-old dad.
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Growing Old With Grace
by Ramakrishna Michaels
Inspirational story is one of a child endowed with a world-class musical talent, who became a pawn in an emotionally incestuous relationship with his mother. He grew to be a troubled young man, who devolved into a disastrously dysfunctional adult, addicted to sex, drugs, and denial. In 1985 Ramakrishna met his guru...
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You can't touch my hair : and other things I still have to explain
by Phoebe Robinson
The stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster offers humorous, poignant essays describing her experience as a black woman in modern America on topics such as how she’s been questioned on her love of Billy Joel and U2 and why you can’t touch her hair. Original.
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They're playing our song : a memoir
by Carole Bayer Sager
A frank personal account by the Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter traces the story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her formative relationships to her collaborations with some of today's leading composers and music artists.
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Learning from experience
by George Pratt Shultz
Shultz recounts a lifetime of experiences in government, business, and academia and describes how those experiences have shaped the way he thinks about the world...Provides the reader with keys to understanding how he helped bring the nuclear disarmament movement into the mainstream of American policy discussions, why he urges his Republican Party colleagues to adopt measures to address climate change... why leaders must learn to govern over diversity, and more.
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