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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
by Laurie Notaro  
Powells.com Staff Pick If you gave David Sedaris a sex change and about nine shots of tequila, you'd have Laurie Notaro. Not that she's a drinker, but she is the kind of fearless that most people need alcoholic fortification to be. Far from triggering a chortle, or even a...
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Books: A Memoir
by Larry McMurtry Publisher Comments In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a...
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Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
by Kerry Cohen Publisher Comments For everyone who was that girl. For everyone who knew that girl. For everyone who wondered who that girl was. Kerry Cohen is eleven years old when she recognizes the power of her body in the leer of a grown man. Her parents are recently divorced...
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Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made
by Mary F. Pols Publisher Comments At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never — not in a million years — on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would be...
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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a...
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Notebooks 1951-1959
by Albert Camus Synopsis The final journals of Albert Camus were withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death in 1959, and are now published in English for the first time. His final journals offer a rare, intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the...
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Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
by Sally Brampton Publisher Comments A searing, raw memoir of depression that is ultimately uplifting and inspiring. A successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist, Sally Brampton launched Elle magazine in the UK in 1985. But behind the successful, glamorous career was a story...
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Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!)
by Douglas Brown Publisher Comments This romantic-at-heart memoir details how one couple turned off the television — and turned on their sex lives. Perfect for time-crunched couples who want to regain intimacy with their spouse....
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The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
by Jamie James Publisher Comments On September 11th, 2001 while exploring a Burmese jungle, Dr. Joe Slowinski was bitten by a krait, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world. His colleagues kept him alive for 26 hours with mouth-to-mouth respiration, waiting for medical help that...
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The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector
by Aidan Delgado Publisher Comments A young man's transformation from Army Reserve volunteer to Buddhist conscientious objector and critic of the war in Iraq In 2003 Aidan Delgado was deployed to Nasiriyah and Abu Ghraib with the U.S. Army Reserve. When his colleagues learned that he spoke...
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The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (New Narratives in American History)
by William L. Barney Publisher Comments For all the advances of the civil rights movement, and for all the cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by...
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Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
by Richard B Spence Publisher Comments Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture. Crowley...
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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
by Marc Tyler Nobleman Publisher Comments JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure...
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The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
by Alvin S Felzenberg Publisher Comments It’s a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were “Great,” others were “Near-Great,” and so on down to “Failures” and “Unmitigated Disasters.” (OK, we...
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Paul Brown: The Man Who Invented Modern Football
by George Cantor Publisher Comments Paul Brown was such a towering figure in pro football history that he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame before he had even retired. A head coach for more than 20 years, Brown won plenty of games. But he is remembered and lionized for the many...
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Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
by Stephanie Klein Publisher Comments With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescence. While she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends...
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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
by Tim Stark Publisher Comments Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life. Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was...
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Memoirs (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
by Marie Mancini Publisher Comments The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names...
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The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
by Chaozhu Ji Publisher Comments No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right, Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two...
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Lords of the Earth: An Incredible But True Story from the Stone-Age Hell of Papua's Jungle
by Don Richardson Synopsis This unforgettable tale of missionary Stan Dale and his family and thousands of Yali tribesmen brings unlikely characters together in a swirl of agony and bloodshed climaxing in a dramatic, unexpected ending....
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