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A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet: A Memoir
An expansion of the author's controversial "Up Front" column in Vogue magazine describes her family's efforts to help her clinically obese, seven-year-old daughter to lose weight, recounting how their progress was challenged by judgmental and conflictingdetractors.
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Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. In this searing, unflinching memoir, she allows herself to remember the life that she lost — and learns to balance that terrible loss with her need to keep her family alive in her heart.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling numerous medical and scientific discoveries.NPR Bestseller
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Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time With John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and in Days That I'll Remember, recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time.
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Noble Savages
My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
The anthropologist author of the best-selling Yanomamö describes his controversial life-long research among the Yanomamö tribe in the Amazon region. His conclusions about the evolutionary advantages of their inherent violence caused an uproar within the scientific community.
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After Visiting Friends
A Son's Story
A decade in the writing, After Visiting Friends is the story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death and a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are.
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Vow
A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)
Writing as both betrayer and betrayed, the author explores repeated infidelities in a memoir of desire, commitment, anger and guilt.
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In the House of the Interpreter
A Memoir
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Detroit
An American Autopsy
When he returned to his old hometown, Detroit, Charlie LeDuff was horrified to see how far the city had fallen. He used his reporting experience to try to uncover what had happened to what was once America's richest city.NPR Bestseller
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Give Me Everything You Have
On Being Stalked
A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's harrowing ordeal at the hands of an obsessed former student whose campaign of hate mail, violently anti-Semitic online postings, and false public accusations were orchestrated to destroy his professional and personal life.
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With or Without You
A Memoir
A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.
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The Real Jane Austen
A Life in Small Things
Through an assortment of mundane objects, literary biographer Paula Byrne tells the story of Jane Austen's personal and creative life.
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Living and Dying in Brick City
An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
Sampson Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in inner-city Newark, N.J. from a unique perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day.
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