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Parallel Time

Growing Up in Black and White

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples, an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites.The oldest ... Read more

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples, an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites.The oldest
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Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

A Memoir Anthology

by Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, Kim Barnes, Rick Bragg, Rosemary L. Bray, Mary Childers, Paul Clemens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Pete Hamill, E. Lynn Harris, Daisy Hernández, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Hoffman, bell hooks, Mary Karr, Michael C. Keith, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Bich Minh Nguyen, Joe Queenan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Scofield, Kate Simon, Brent Staples, Michelle Tea, Tobias Wolff, Monica Wood, Howard Zinn ...

Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Read more

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Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically,
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Life Itself

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**A singular, warm-hearted, and inspiring look at life from beloved writer, critic, and pundit Roger Ebert—and the inspiration for the award-winning documentary."A captivating, moveable feast." —New York Times Book Review"Thoughtful, entertaining, and emotional." —Entertainment Weekly**Roger Ebert was the best-known film critic of his time. He began reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times in1967 ... Read more

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**A singular, warm-hearted, and inspiring look at life from beloved writer, critic, and pundit Roger Ebert—and the inspiration for the award-winning documentary."A captivating, moveable feast." —New York Times Book Review"Thoughtful, entertaining, and emotional." —Entertainment Weekly**Roger Ebert was the best-known film critic of his time. He began reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times in1967
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Righteous Indignation

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Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos—and, along with it, his family's steady collapse—in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from ... Read more

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Mark Twain

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“Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles TimesA magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story.Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his ... Read more

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The Long Way Home

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The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history.The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the ... Read more

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The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history.The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the
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Morning Sunshine!

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B. C. Forbes: Built And Empire On Titans Of Fortune

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Forbes Magazine's annual lists profiling the ultra rich is one of the most successful series in magazine history. But B.C. Forbes had a fascination for the great tycoons of business long before founding Forbes Magazine. His book, "Men Who are Making America," a collection of short biographies about successful titans of business, was published in 1917. Its success prompted B.C. to start a business ... Read more

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Forbes Magazine's annual lists profiling the ultra rich is one of the most successful series in magazine history. But B.C. Forbes had a fascination for the great tycoons of business long before founding Forbes Magazine. His book, "Men Who are Making America," a collection of short biographies about successful titans of business, was published in 1917. Its success prompted B.C. to start a business
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Born to Lose

Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation

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A Measure of Danger: The Memoirs of Legendary War Correspondent Michael Nicholson

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Over the past 25 years, Michael Nicholson has covered more wars and conflicts than almost any other TV reporter. Vietnam and Cambodia, Israel and Lebanon, Cyprus and Soweto, Angola and the Falklands – Michael Nicholson reported them all.A Measure of Danger is a classic insider's account of the men who fight and those who report the fighting, of the brave and the foolish, the leaders and the led, ... Read more

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We All Scream

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For more than 70 years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. Few knew the dark truth… Behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide. As the last Gifford heir unfolds his story with remarkable ... Read more

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