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Biography and Memoir October 2020
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Mill town : reckoning with what remains
by Kerri Arsenault
Traces the author’s working-class upbringing in a rural New England paper mill community among three generations who unwittingly contributed to environmental destruction and the catastrophic decline of the community’s economic, moral and emotional health. A first book. 50,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
by Jenna Bush Hager
The Today co-host, best-selling co-author of Sisters First and former first daughter and granddaughter shares heartwarming, whimsical stories about beloved grandparents George and Barbara Bush while offering insights into how their wisdom has shaped her life. 400,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Inferno : a memoir of motherhood and madness
by Catherine Cho
Traces the debut author's identity-shattering experience with postpartum psychosis, describing her commitment into a New Jersey psychiatric ward and her efforts to reconstruct her sense of self as a London wife and daughter of Korean immigrants. 40,000 first printing.
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Conditional citizens : on belonging in America
by Laila Lalami
A Pulitzer Prize finalist recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tour.
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When truth is all you have : a memoir of faith, justice, and freedom for the wrongly convicted
by Jim McCloskey
Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads when he met the man who would change his life. A former management consultant, McCloskey had grown disenchanted with the business world; he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary at the age of 37. His first assignment, in 1980, was as a chaplain at Trenton State Prison. Among the inmates was Jorge de los Santos, a heroin addict who'd been convicted of murder years earlier. He swore to McCloskey that he was innocent--and, over time, McCloskey came to believe him. With no legal or investigative training to speak of, McCloskey threw himself into the case. Two years later, thanks to those efforts, Jorge de los Santos walked free, fully exonerated. McCloskey had found his calling. He established Centurion Ministries, the first group in America devoted to overturning wrongful convictions.
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Lincoln on the verge : thirteen days to Washington
by Edward L. Widmer
Draws on new research to profile Abraham Lincoln during 13 pivotal days of his President-Elect period, during which he forged essential bonds with everyday people, foiled an assassination attempt and demonstrated early signs of legacy greatness. Illustrations. Maps.
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Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living
by Karen Auvinen
A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a wilderness cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a catastrophic fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.
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Poetry will save your life : a memoir
by Jill Bialosky
A coming-of-age memoir organized around classic poems pairs each one with key events that shaped the author's life, from the first time she fell in love and her sister's suicide to September 11 and the birth of a child.
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The pawnbroker's daughter : a memoir
by Maxine Kumin
A new collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet depicts her childhood during the Depression in Philadelphia, her education at Radcliffe College, her rural New England farm and the changing tone and subject matter of her poetry over her lifetime.
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Have dog, will travel : a poet's journey
by Stephen Kuusisto
A blind poet describes how being laid off from his job as a small college town professor led him into acquiring his first guide dog and how it changed his life and gave him a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.
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