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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
by Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more)

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Half a Life: A Memoir
Half a Life: A Memoir
by Darin Strauss
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Darin Strauss dissects the one event that forever demarcates his life: as a teenager, he kills a schoolmate after hitting her with his car.  To his credit, Strauss never once plays the pity card; instead he seems to question his every emotion and thought for signs of weakness.  As he grows into adulthood, he shares his story with others and sits unflinchingly while they either excoriate or coddle him.  No, this memoir is not for the faint of heart — demanding introspection and exhaustive emotional digging are the hallmarks of his life.  Half a Life not only describes Strauss's life but also his schoolmate's life, and he mines this reality for all its subtle and explicit meaning.  Kudos to Strauss for his strength in not only living this particular nightmare but for sharing it, as well.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Signed Edition
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Signed Edition
by Rebecca Skloot
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This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more)

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Entertainment and Performing Arts
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by Tina Fey
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Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she... (read more)

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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
by Lidia Yuknavitch
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The Chronology of Water was not what I was expecting or hoping for. It was more beautiful, poetic, and painful than anything I've read in a long time. I picked it up looking for debauchery and depravity; I found breathlessness.
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Military
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young... (read more)

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Almost Home
Almost Home
by Damien Echols
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Almost Home is a message to you from a faraway place. It is a message from a 12-foot by 9-foot cell in a cinderblock building surrounded by coils of razor wire in the middle of a dirt field in Arkansas. It was written by a young man named Damien Echols... (read more)

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Religious
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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
by Eric Weiner
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When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner, an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. Have you found your God yet? The thought of it nags him, and prods him and... (read more)

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Composers and Musicians
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Just Kids
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
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In her memoir Just Kids, Smith chronicles her lifelong friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. A gifted wordsmith, she's vividly observant and sometimes painfully self-aware, with a voice possessed not only of yearning but also of experience.... (read more)

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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
by Michael Lewis
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The New York Times... (read more)

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M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens
M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens
by Joan Reardon
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A portrait of the life and career of noted culinary writer M. F. K. Fisher is set against the background of the many kitchens that she had known, the foods she had consumed in each of them, and their influence on her ideas about the art of eating, in an... (read more)

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Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America the Joy of Cooking
Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America the Joy of Cooking
by Anne Mendelson
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A New York Times Notable Book... (read more)

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Political
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The Real Romney
The Real Romney
by Michael Kranish
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Mitt Romney has masterfully positioned himself as the front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Even though he’s become a household name, the former Massachusetts governor remains an enigma to many in America, his character and... (read more)

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Bossypants
Bossypants
by Tina Fey
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Readers sometimes lower the bar when it comes to the quality of celebrity memoirs, but, in this case, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Tina Fey is a legitimately talented writer, and the stories from her personal life are just as zany and... (read more)

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Bestsellers

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February 12, 2012
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
  1. The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
    by Lidia Yuknavitch
  2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Signed Edition
    by Rebecca Skloot
  3. Bossypants
    by Tina Fey
  4. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    by Laura Hillenbrand
  5. Almost Home
    by Damien Echols

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Shelf Talkers, Staff Pick | January 4, 2012

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile



Feeding on Dreams is a candid and powerful account of Ariel Dorfman's years in exile after he fled the horrors of the Pinochet regime in Chile. This... Continue »
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