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by Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick!**
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now,...
by George Dawson, Richard Glaubman
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
One man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98
“Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn’t anything I would change about my life.”—George Dawson
In this remarkable book, George...
The Rules Do Not Apply
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Vogue • Time • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • The Guardian • Harper’s...
The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the...
An American Family
A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family’s pursuit of the American dream.
NAMED ONE OF THE FIVE BEST MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
“Moving . . . a story about family and faith, told with a poet’s...
Son of a Gun
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath**
Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001....
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place
“Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth and...
You Were Always Mom's Favorite!
Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Conversations between sisters reveal a deep and constant tug between two dynamics—an impulse toward closeness and an impulse toward competition. It takes just a word from your sister to start you laughing, or to summon up a past you both share. But it also takes just a word to send you into an emotional...
Slow Motion
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life.
Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best friend's...
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of a young adult with autism
“Essential reading for parents and teachers of those with autism who remain nonverbal.”—Temple Grandin
Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I...
Fifty Acres and a Poodle
A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Jeanne Marie Laskas had dreams of life on a farm that she couldn't get out of her head. A dream of fleeing her otherwise happy urban life for fresh air and open space. A dream she would discover was about something more profound than that. A dream she never ever expected to come true. Until a hot...
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other
In Praise of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures...
Mother Daughter Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year...
You're Wearing That?
Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Timesbestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It...