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  • Happiness
    Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
    Heather Harpham
    Hardcover: 08/01/2017
     
    A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that ...
  • Driving Miss Norma
    Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying YES to Living
    Tim Bauerschmidt, Ramie Liddle
    Hardcover: 05/02/2017
     
    Infused with this irrepressible nonagenarian's wisdom, courage, and generous spirit, and filled with sixteen ...
  • The Sound of Gravel
    The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
    Ruth Wariner
    Paperback: 04/25/2017
     
    A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist doomsday cult.
  • Dadland
    Dadland
    Keggie Carew
    Hardcover: 03/07/2017
     
    A spellbinding journey into surprising and shady corners of twentieth-century politics, a rackety English ...
  • Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    J.D. Vance
    Hardcover: 06/28/2016
     
    #1 New York Times Bestseller, named by the Times as one of the "6 books to help understand Trump's win"
  • Little Failure
    Little Failure: A Memoir
    Gary Shteyngart
    Paperback: 10/07/2014
     
    A memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his ...
  • The Still Point of the Turning World
    The Still Point of the Turning World
    Emily Rapp
    Paperback: 02/25/2014
     
    The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother's journey through grief and beyond it, re-...

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