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A Memoir
by Annie Proulx
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by Carol Wall
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsA true story of a unique friendship between two people who had nothing - and ultimately everything - in common
by Lynn Darling
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsCombining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love: Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods.
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsLike the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice.
by Howard F. Mosher
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsFrom bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
by Laura Bell
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsBy turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsBestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
by Wangari Maathai
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsHugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsKlinkenborg brings a fresh view to the ordinary beauty of our daily lives in this year-long meditation on the deep joys of country life.
by Judy Blunt
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsBlunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.
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