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Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace
by William Lobdell
Hardcover: 1 Mar 2009
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| William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. It is a book about life's deepest questions that speaks to everyone: Lobdell understands the longings and satisfactions of the faithful, as well as the unrelenting power of doubt. |
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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
by Myron Uhlberg
Hardcover: 3 Feb 2009
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| By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. |
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
Hardcover: Feb 2008
Paperback: 13 Jan 2009
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| A marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling. |
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 6 Jan 2009
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| An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths
that sustain us, and the love that saves us. |
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I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 21 Oct 2008
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| From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes
another buoyant, unforgettable memoir—I'm Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts. |
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Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 14 Oct 2008
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| A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. |
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In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Repairing the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
by A. E. Hotchner, Paul Newman
Hardcover: Nov 2003
Paperback: 16 Sep 2008
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| With rare glimpses into their zany style and their compassion for those less fortunate, Newman and Hotchner (founders of Newman's Own all-natural foods) have written the perfect non-management book, at once playful, informative, and inspirational. |
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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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| From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph. |
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