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Fun home : a family tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel GN BEC
An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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Brain on fire : my month of madness
by Susannah Cahalan 616.832 CAH
A dramatic account of a young New York Post reporter's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room under guard with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a brilliant doctor who identifies the source of her illness.
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Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : A Memoir
by Roz Chast GN CHA
A graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four-color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges.
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Brothers Emanuel : a memoir of an American family
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel B EMANUEL
A portrait of the dynamic Emanuel family cites their achievements in medicine, politics and Hollywood while tracing the remarkable careers of the White House health advisor author and his brothers, offering insight into the family history, unique upbringing and social atmosphere that influenced their lives.
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Mother, daughter, me : a memoir
by Katie Hafner B HAFNER
A health and technology journalist documents the author's efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter. By the author of A Romance on Three Legs.
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After visiting friends : a son's story
by Michael Hainey B HAINEY
Traces the GQ deputy editor's decade-long investigation into the mystery of his father's sudden death, describing his father's achievements as a dynamic reporter, the author's examination of inconsistencies in his father's medical records and the honor code of secrecy that challenged his research.
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Bloom : a memoir
by Kelle Hampton B HAMPTON
When the author of the popular blog “Enjoying the Small Things” discovers that her newborn baby girl has Down syndrome, she soon learns that perfection comes in all different shapes and that she has been chosen to experience an extraordinary and special gift.
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Beyond belief : my secret life inside Scientology and my harrowing escape
by Jenna Miscavige Hill 299.936 HIL
Controversial and unprecedented, the niece of the Church of Scientology's commander-in-chief reveals the strange and disturbing details of her childhood, piercing the veil of secrecy that has shrouded this religion and exposing the inner workings of Scientology's celebrity culture.
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Relish : my life in the kitchen
by Lucy Knisley GN YA F KNI
A graphically illustrated, recipe-complemented memoir by the indie cartoonist author of French Milk describes her food-enriched youth as the daughter of a chef and a gourmet, key memories that were marked by special meals and the ways in which cooking has imparted valuable life lessons.
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Dropped names : famous men and women as I knew them
by Frank Langella B LANGELLA
Interspersed with his own experiences, the Oscar-nominated actor, offers a collection of unforgettable encounters he had with many of the 20th century's most intriguing personalities, including John F. Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.
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Happy accidents
by Jane Lynch 792.02 LYN
Part humor, part inspiration, the star of TV's hottest show Glee and former real-life Sue Sylvester shares how she was finally able to embrace her sexuality and find the contentment she thought she'd never have.
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Someone could get hurt : a memoir of twenty-first-century parenthood
by Drew Magary 306.874 MAG
A Deadspin columnist presents a heartfelt account about the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America that shares brutally honest insights into the coping mechanisms employed by today's parents, in a memoir that also shares his positive views on the strengths of American parenting.
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Her : a memoir
by Christa Parravani 306.875 PAR
After her identical twin sister, who, haunted by childhood experiences with father figures and further damaged by being raped as a young adult, succumbs to drugs and depression, the author, after reading a statistic that 50% of the time the surviving twin dies within two years, decides to beat the odds.
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This is the story of a happy marriage
by Ann Patchett B PATCHETT
Inviting readers into her personal life, the New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto shares the stories of the people, places, ideals and art to which she has remained indelibly committed.
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Truth & beauty : a friendship
by Ann Patchett B PATCHETT
The author of Bel Canto describes her intimate twenty-year friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration.
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My Salinger Year
by Joanna Smith Rakoff ebook/MyMediaMall
Traces the author's experiences in 1990s New York as the assistant to the agent of J. D. Salinger, a job that contrasted with her threadbare personal life and was enriched by the famous writer's fan letters. By the award-winning author of A Fortunate Age.
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With or without you : a memoir
by Domenica Ruta 362.2913 RUT
A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.
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Stitches : a memoir --
by David Small GN SMA
The Caldecott-winning author of Imogene's Antlers presents a graphic account of his troubled childhood under a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.
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Until I say good-bye : my year of living with joy
by Susan Spencer-Wendel 616.83 SPE
A 45-year-old journalist and mother of three who has Lou Gehrig's disease, an irreversible condition that systematically destroys the nerves that power the muscles, invites readers on her transformational journey to make every day count.
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A fighting chance
by Elizabeth Warren B WARREN
A chronicle of the Massachusetts senator's two-decade career in Washington describes her childhood pursuit of an education, early exposure to the dysfunctional political process, high-risk advocacy of better bankruptcy laws and competitive run for public office.
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The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir
by Dee Williams B WILLIAMS
The sustainability advocate author of Go House Go describes the heart condition and hectic lifestyle that compelled her to scale back and simplify while spending more time with family and friends in her self-built, 84-square-foot home.
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