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by Mary Louise Kelly
Published Apr 2025
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by David Sedaris
Published Jun 2019
Read ReviewsDavid Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
by Xue Xinran
Published Mar 2012
Read ReviewsMessage from an Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.
by Conor Grennan
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsLittle 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.
by Robyn Scott
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsA glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs
by Neely Tucker
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsAgainst a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't miss this gripping memoir.
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