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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
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I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
by Izzeldin Abuelaish
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 17 Jan 2012
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| The extraordinary, riveting story of a Palestinian doctor who, rather than seek revenge after witnessing his three daughters' deaths by Israeli tank shells, continues his humanitarian call for the people of the region to come together in understanding, respect, and peace. |
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by Amy Chua
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 27 Dec 2011
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| An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards - and the costs - of raising her children the Chinese way. |
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
by Conor Grennan
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 27 Dec 2011
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| Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about. |
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Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
by Andrea Gillies
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 25 Oct 2011
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| Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease. |
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir
by Annie Proulx
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 4 Oct 2011
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| Proulx's first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing her dream house. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region, and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. |
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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face-Blindness and Forgiveness
by Heather Sellers
Hardcover: Oct 2010
Paperback: 4 Oct 2011
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| An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. |
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The Memory Palace: A Memoir
by Mira Bartok
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 9 Aug 2011
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| The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. |
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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
by John Paul Rathbone
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 26 Jul 2011
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| The son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie. |
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