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Fascinating memoirs of people you've probably never heard of. All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com Questions? Call Cary at the library, 603-757-1838.
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The Receptionist : An Education at the New Yorker by Janet GrothDescribes the author's career as a receptionist at the prestigious New Yorker magazine, recounting her relationships with famous poets, essayists, and playwrights, and chronicling the behind-the-scenes affairs of the magazine and its staff.
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All Souls : A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonaldThe author of Easter Rising recounts growing up in a poor, insular Irish neighborhood of South Boston, a community rocked by the organized crime world of gangster Whitey Bulger, riots, and poverty, and remembers the four brothers he lost to violence.
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The Unforgiving Minute : A Soldier's Education by Craig M. MullaneyA West Point graduate, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger describes his extensive military education, the ways in which his service in Afghanistan shaped his views, and his work as a Naval Academy instructor.
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The Coalwood Way by Homer H. HickamThe sequel to the acclaimed Rocket Boys continues the story of Coalwood, West Virginia, as the author and his fellow Rocket Boys face their senior year at Big Creek High, while the forces of change bring Coalwood to a difficult crossroads and strain and depression threaten to tear apart the Hickam home.
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Delphine MinouiThe true story of Yemen's heroic first child bride to win a divorce describes her forced marriage to an abusive husband three times her age, her daring pursuit of the marriage's dissolution and the cultural factors that place girls at risk in Yemeni society.
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Government Girl : Young and Female in the White House by Stacy Parker AabA political aid during the Clinton Administration shares her memories of being young and female in the White House, shedding light on the Lewinsky scandal and unmasking her own protectors, predators, teachers, lovers and mentors.
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No Surrender : A World War II Memoir by James SheeranA World War II paratrooper in the 101st Airborne describes floating into Normandy on D-Day, being captured by the Germans, escaping a POW train, traveling behind enemy lines in France and hooking up to fight with Patton’s army.
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Running the Books : The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi SteinbergA lighthearted immersion memoir chronicles the Harvard graduate and lapsed Orthodox Jewish author's stint as a librarian in a tough Boston prison, where he met such inmates as a pimp who enlisted his help writing a memoir and a gangster who dreamed of hosting a cooking show.
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Even Silence Has an End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid BetancourtThe Colombian presidential candidate and long-time hostage of the FARC terrorist guerrilla organization shares the story of her captivity in the jungle, describing the conditions of her imprisonment, her near-escapes before her 2008 rescue and her views on resilience, resistance and faith.
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Cabin : Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine by Lou UreneckA personal tale about building and brotherhood by the writer of the popular New York Times blog From the Ground Up describes the personal setbacks that inspired him to construct a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods, a shared effort that was marked by unexpected challenges and sibling memories.
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Fiction Ruined My Family by Jeanne DarstA solo performance artist and contributor to The New York Times Magazine traces her early life in a family struggling to recover the grandeur and wealth of past generations, describing her father's literary failures, her struggles with alcoholism and her own efforts to become a professional writer.
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What the Butler Winked At : Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne, Butler by Eric HorneEric Horne served as a butler in some of the great English country manors from the 1860s until just after World War I, when many of the families whose heirs died in battle were forced to sell off their homes. Horne excelled in school and wished to go to sea, but lacking his parents' permission, he instead ended up as a footboy for a local household. Over the years, Horne moved up in the service of the aristocracy: his goal was to become butler to the king of England, a position he very nearly secured. He did end up in the service of several distinguished households for many decades, and upon his retirement in 1922, he decided to write his memoir.
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A Year and Six Seconds : A Love Story by Isabel GilliesThe author looks at her life after her husband left her for another woman as she copes with raising two toddlers, tries to understand what caused the disintigration of her marriage, finds self-acceptance, and falls in love.
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The Ledge : An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier by Jim DavidsonA full-length account of a story covered in a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article documents the 1992 mountaineering venture during which co-author Jim Davidson and his best friend, Mike Price, ascended Mount Rainier before a tragic fall that instantly ended Mike's life and forced Jim to climb to safety with sparse equipment.
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Brooklyn Zoo : The Education of a Psychotherapist by Darcy LockmanA New York City clinical psychologist documents the story of her stressful but exciting education in the face of institutional dysfunction, supervisor sabotage and the author's conflicted feelings about her profession.
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