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eBooks for April April 2021
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Beauty in the Broken Places : A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by author Pataki, Allison. Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave--a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident--had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come.
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Coming to My Senses : The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Alice WatersThe owner and executive chef of Chez Panisse presents the story of her culinary journey, describing her efforts to promote distinctive flavors in a time of uniform convenience foods and reflecting on the evolution of one of the world's most influential restaurants.
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Eat a Peach : A Memoir by David ChangThe star of Ugly Delicious traces his upbringing as a youngest son in a deeply religious Korean-American family, his search for identity, his struggles with manic depression and his unlikely rise as one of his generation’s most influential chefs.
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Educated : A Memoir by Tara WestoverTraces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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The Girl on the Balcony : Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo & Juliet by Olivia HusseyIn this candid memoir, Olivia Hussey tells her story: from being an "It Girl" in swinging 60s London and her enduring friendship with Romeo & Juliet co-star Leonard Whiting, through three tumultuous marriages, motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia, bankruptcy, and ultimately, a journey of self-discovery in India that led her on a path to fulfillment.
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Greenlights by Matthew McConaugheyDrawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction.
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Inheritance : A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani ShapiroThe acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.
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My Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemThe feminist activist and co-founder of "Ms." magazine presents a memoir comprised of reflections on definitive events in her career, from her time on the campaign trail and interactions with political leaders to her visits to India and her encounters with"civilian" feminists.
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On the Move : A Life by Oliver SacksRecounts the author's life and career, sharing his experiences as a neurologist in the early 1960s, his obsession with motorcycles and speed, and finding a long-forgotten illness in the wards of a New York chronic hospital.
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Rough Magic : Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-PalmerAt the age of nineteen, Lara Prior–Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”―an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty–five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her.
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This is Just My Face : Try Not to Stare by Gabourey SidibeThe Oscar-nominated star of Precious and Empire delivers a much-awaited memoir that shares details about her childhood with a polygamous father in Harlem, her gifted mother who supported them by singing in the subway and her own unconventional rise to fame.
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Walking with Ghosts : A Memoir by Gabriel ByrneThe award-winning stage and screen actor documents his working-class Dublin childhood, his failed ambition to become a priest, the role of street life in shaping his characters and his experiences in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiA Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days.
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With or Without You : A Memoir by Domenica RutaA wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.
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Year of the Monkey by Patti SmithFollowing a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow.
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Keene Public Library
60 Winter St.
Keene, New Hampshire 03431
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http://www.keenepubliclibrary.org/
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