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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
by Lorna Goodison  Publisher Comments "Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up." In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje's...
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I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny
by Bob Newhart Publisher Comments In his bestselling book, the 77-year-old Newhart covers everything in this guided tour through his button-down brain, from his 43-year marriage and fear of flying to fatherhood, Vegas, and assorted antics with celebrity pals....
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Family Romance: A Love Story
by John Lanchester Publisher Comments The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of...
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My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life: An Anti-Memoir
by Adam Nimoy Publisher Comments Live long and prosper? Ha. Last week, Adam Nimoy woke up in his beautiful house with his wife and kids in West Los Angeles. Today, he's waking up in a sleeping bag on an air mattress in a two-bedroom apartment with no furniture thinking, "How the hell...
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The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand
by Tom Santopietro Publisher Comments Controversial, a global icon, a diva among divas---Barbra Streisand, the last genuinely unique show business personality of the twentieth century is the most honored entertainer in the world today. But along with the Tony, two Oscars, six Emmys, eight...
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Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth
by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments Before his death at age thirty-two in 323 BC, Alexander the Great founded eighteen new cities and conquered Persia; his empire—from Greece to India—comprised two million square miles. In this succinct portrait of Alexander, distinguished...
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Between You and Me
by Mike Wallace Publisher Comments It is staggering to think of how many important historical and cultural figures Wallace has interviewed over the course of his legendary career.& nbsp; With great humor and insight, he recalls his encounters with such luminaries as Eleanor Roosevelt,...
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Daughter of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India
by Asha Miro Publisher Comments Growing up in an Indian orphanage, Asha Miró; dreamed that someday she would be adopted. At the age of six, her wish finally came true, but only at the misfortune of another. A Catalan family was in the process of adopting twins when one of the...
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Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House
by Miranda Seymour Publisher Comments Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight, wrote twenty-one-year-old George Seymour in 1944. But the object of his affection was not a young woman but a house--ownership of which was then a distant dream. But he did eventually acquire Thrumpton, a beautiful...
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The River Queen: A Memoir
by Mary Morris Publisher Comments This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a life In fall 2005 acclaimed travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old...
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Vintage)
by Carl Bernstein Publisher Comments Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our...
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That Mean Old Yesterday
by Stacey Patton Publisher Comments In this astonishing coming-of-age memoir, collegiate Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Patton relays how she survived her adoptive family's abuse through her determination to be the best student--and human being--she could possibly be....
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Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
by Jean Said Makdisi Publisher Comments Rich in warmth and insight, a personal and cultural history of three generations of Arab women. In this "beautifully written memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her mother...
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My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud
by Janna Smith Publisher Comments Bernard Malamud -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed works as The Fixer, The Natural, and The Assistant, peer to Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, and an enduring literary influence -- was a very private man. In this candid, loving, and...
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
by Hilary Spurling Publisher Comments If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone, wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and...
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Glamour, Interrupted: How I Became the Best-Dressed Patient in Hollywood
by Steven Cojocaru Publisher Comments An inspirational, engrossing, and laugh-out-loud memoir that tracks Cojocarus near-tragic battle with kidney disease and the unflagging positive outlook that helped him return to the A-list set....
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Borderlines: A Memoir
by Caroline Kraus 
Publisher Comments What would you do if your best friend was also your worst enemy? When Caroline Kraus leaves behind her sheltered, upper-middle-class home in St. Louis for San Francisco following the death of her mother, she is searching for clarity and a fresh...
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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
by Gwendolyn Bounds Publisher Comments Forced from her downtown Manhattan apartment by the terrorist attack of September 11, journalist Wendy Bounds was delivered to Guinan's doorstep -- a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store nestled along the banks of the Hudson River in the small...
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When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race
by Judith Stone Synopsis Drawing on a wealth of research, including extensive interviews, this is the true story of Sandra Laing, a woman whose life was torn apart by prejudice in South Africa and healed by love....
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Change in the Weather: Life After Stroke
by Mark Mcewen Publisher Comments Mark McEwen was at the top of his game and enjoying life when he suffered a stroke. After fifteen years on The Early Show, he had moved to Orlando to anchor the local news and spend more time with his family. While traveling, he experienced symptoms that...
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