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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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Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair With the Sea
by Trevor Norton
Hardcover: Jun 2006
Paperback: 30 Jun 2007
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| Eminent marine biologist Trevor Norton takes us around the oceans of the world in this fascinating semi autobiograpical lovefest with the oceans. |
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
by Sy Montgomery
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 17 Apr 2007
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| When Sy Montgomery opened her heart to a sick piglet she had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large, loving heart made him absolute monarch. |
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A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities
by Dana Buchman
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 30 Mar 2007
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| Fashion designer Dana Buchman tells of her daughter Charlotte's severe struggle with learning disabilities and of her own steep learning curve to become the mother Charlotte needs her to be. |
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
by Wole Soyinka
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 13 Mar 2007
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| Nobel Prize-winner Soyinka captures the spirit of Nigeria itself as he brings to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him. He describes his pioneering theater works that defied censure and tradition, and recounts his exile and the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha. |
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An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 1 Mar 2007
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| The riveting life story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina who, as his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, sheltered more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes. |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 13 Feb 2007
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| 'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.' |
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