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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 18 Dec 2007
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| Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born. |
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My Life in France
by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 9 Oct 2007
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| The story of Child's growth from a naive newleywed into a great cook and one of the best and most influential teachers of the twentieth century. |
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Inflorescence
by Sarah Hannah
Hardcover: 1 Oct 2007
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| Sarah Hannah follows her critically acclaimed first volume of poetry, Longing Distance, with Inflorescence, a compelling memoir-in-verse for her mother, Boston Expressionist painter Renee Rothbein, and their intense relationship in which they struggle with Rothbein’s mental illness and eventual death from cancer. |
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 25 Sep 2007
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| A vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of
growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last
century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny". |
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Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57
by Michael Weisskopf
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 18 Sep 2007
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| Michael Weisskopf, a journalist, was riding through Baghdad with a US Army patrol when they were attacked and his hand was destoyed by a grenade. This book is the story of his treatment and rehabilitation as an amputee, and the stories of the three soldiers who recovered alongside him. |
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Unbowed: A Memoir
by Wangari Maathai
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 7 Sep 2007
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| Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. |
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Sep 2007
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| A novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferra’s husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive. |
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Cockeyed: A Memoir
by Ryan Knighton
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 30 Jun 2007
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| This irreverent, tragicomic, politically incorrect, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind – and growing up. |
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