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The award-winning novelist recalls both his own recovery after a massive stroke, as well his father's experiences in World War II, and shows how the human spirit can adapt to trauma.
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Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets
by Burkhard Bilger
A New Yorker staff writer tells the story of his nearly ten-year quest to uncover the truth about his grandfather, a Nazi party chief, and the questions it raises about reckoning with the pasts of our families. Illustrations.
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The other significant others : reimagining life with friendship at the center
by Rhaina Cohen
Inviting us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner, an award-winning producer and editor for NPR offers a powerful narrative on platonic partnerships and how the thrill, intimacy and commitment we seek is often found through meaningful friendship.
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Astor : the rise and fall of an American fortune
by Anderson Cooper
The number one New York Times best-selling authors of Vanderbilt turn their focus on another legendary American family that built a business empire and became the richest family in America. 300,000 first printing.
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You are my sunshine : a story of love, promises, and a really long bike ride
by Sean Dietrich
"A moving story you won't be able to put down, You Are My Sunshine by master storyteller Sean Dietrich shares the true-life tale of keeping a promise--and taking the longest bike ride of his life. Through laugh-out-loud adventures and poignant moments, Sean and Jamie's story will capture your heart as it reminds you of what's most important in life"
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Necessary trouble : growing up at midcentury
by Drew Gilpin Faust
A renowned historian and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University recounts her coming of age in a conservative Southern family during the 1960s where she forged a path of her own due to her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student and antiwar movements. Illustrations.
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The meth lunches : food and longing in an American city
by Kim Foster
A James Beard award-winning food essayist paints a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America through stories of dysfunction intertwined with hope, of the insurmountable obstacles and fierce determination all playing out on the plates of ordinary people.
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The manicurist's daughter : a memoir
by Susan Lieu
The author faces her family's harrowing story: Vietnamese refugees who open two nail salons, well on their way to the American Dream, only to lose their inimitable matriarch after a routine plastic surgery operation goes horribly awry.
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Sleeping with the ancestors : how I followed the footprints of slavery
by Joseph McGill
A historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, who founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010, takes readers around the country where he spends the night in former slave dwellings, hosting events and gatherings that provide a unique way to understand the often otherwise obscured and distorted history of slavery. Illustrations.
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Thinning blood : a memoir of family, myth, and identity
by Leah Myers
"Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology."
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Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America
by Joy-Ann Reid
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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The Mango Tree : A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
by Annabelle Tometich
This memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.
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Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
by Nina Totenberg
"Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the basis of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship. Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace. At the story's heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. Dinners with Ruth also weaves together compelling, personal portraits of other fascinating women and men from Nina's life, including her cherished NPR colleagues Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer; her beloved husbands; her friendships with multiple Supreme Court Justices, including Lewis Powell, William Brennan, and Antonin Scalia, and Nina's own family--her father, the legendary violinist Roman Totenberg, and her "best friends," her sisters. Inspiring and revelatory, Dinners with Ruth is a moving story of the joy and true meaning of friendship"
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