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North Of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived Both

by Cea Sunrise Person

Published: 2014-04-29

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Sex, drugs and . . . bug stew? An utterly compelling tale of survival—of nature, family and geneticsIn the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in northern Alberta. But unlike most comm...

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The Secrets of My Life

by Caitlyn Jenner

Published: 2017-04-25

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In this remarkable memoir-written during her pivotal first years of becoming her authentic self-Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future."Imagine denying your core and soul. Then add to it the most impossible expectations that people have for you because you are the p...

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The Winemaker's Daughter

by Timothy Egan

Published: 2004-01-13

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist: a stunning first novel that takes us from the wine country of the Pacific Northwest to the vineyards of Italy.Brunella Cartolano is passionate and high-spirited, an accomplished architect and a daughter of the American West who t...

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Failure

by Philip Schultz

Published: 2009-04-01

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This superb Pulitzer Prize winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country s most engaging and uncompromising poets. In Failure, Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family,marriage, beaches, and dogs; New York City in the 1970s; revolutions both...

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The Eye of the Sheep

by Sofie Laguna

Published: 2016-09-01

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South and West: From a Notebook

by Joan Didion

Published: 2017-03-07

Hardcover: 160 pages

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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of o...

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I, Horatio: A Novel of Historical Fiction

by Donald A. Tortorice

Published: 2014-08-12

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This book is the first presentation of the life of Horatio Nelson to be narrated in the first person, a recounting of his life in his own words. It begins with Nelson as a young 21-year-old captain in the Caribbean and goes to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. Along the way his experiences in carrying...

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American War: A novel

by Omar El Akkad

Published: 2017-04-04

Hardcover: 352 pages

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“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is...

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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War

by Matti Friedman

Published: 2017-04-18

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“A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” —The Wall Street Journal “Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carr...

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In the Midst of Life: Is There Such a Thing as a Good Death?

by Jennifer Worth

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The last collection of true-life nursing stories from the No.1 bestselling author of the CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series. Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs of her time as a midwife have inspired and moved readers of all ages. Now, in IN THE MIDST OF LIFE she documents her...