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My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
by John Mahama
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| My First Coup d'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. |
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir
by Anna Quindlen
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 23 Apr 2013
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| In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead - and celebrating it all - as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more. |
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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
by Helga Weiss
Hardcover: 22 Apr 2013
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| The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time. |
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by Wendy Moore
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment. |
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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
by Brian Castner
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
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| In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming that grabs readers by the throat even as it touches their hearts. |
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The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir
by Wenguang Huang
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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| Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China. |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. |
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The Still Point of the Turning World
by Emily Rapp
Hardcover: 7 Mar 2013
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| The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother's journey through grief and beyond it, re-examining our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent, to be a success, and to live a meaningful life. |
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