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Released: May 1, 2013
"Readers familiar with Brazelton's books and articles on babies and children may relish this close-up look at the man who guided them through the vicissitudes of parenthood; others, not so much."
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Released: May 1, 2013
"Unflinching and inspirational, a parent's powerful tale of finding love and understanding beyond the senses."
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Released: May 1, 2013
"A lightweight, sometimes-funny showbiz memoir from a successful background player."
A view from the trenches of show business by a comic actor straddling the line between success and obscurity.
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Released: May 1, 2013
"Readers may not relish the country or love the people as much as the author confesses he does, but despite the overblown search for meaning, they may enjoy the trolley ride."
Before it came crashing down in 1989, the wall that divided East Germany from the West had stood for a generation. Now, a later generation in the East still bears vestiges of that Cold War separation.
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Released: May 1, 2013
"Really an overblown magazine article, lightly and pleasantly enough written, though without the depth of like-minded projects by Bill Bryson, Jim Harrison and others."
In which an inside-the-Beltway type goes all Euell Gibbons on us--and doesn't starve to death and even finds true love in the bargain.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 30, 2013
"Emotion and reflection contend for prominence with superficiality; the former win, but barely."
The octogenarian Irish novelist, playwright, poet, biographer (and more) revisits her rich and sometimes rowdy life.
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Released: April 30, 2013
"Fierce, frank, raw and profoundly moving."
A feminist playwright and activist's riveting account of how uterine cancer helped her "find [her] way back to [her] body, and to the Earth."
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Released: April 30, 2013
"A vivid depiction of a splintered childhood and the lovely wholeness procured from it."
A slim yet resonant autobiographical entry from the Nobel laureate's early years in West Africa.
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Released: April 30, 2013
"In a blood sport littered with casualties, this is an account of an unlikely survivor."
A comedian's life is no laughing matter in this memoir of short chapters that examine the author's source of material as a series of open wounds.
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Released: April 25, 2013
"A heartfelt witness to the changing political and emotional landscape of the Cuban-American experience."
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Released: April 23, 2013
"Genuinely insightful through and through--a must-read for anyone interested in the trans experience."
The warm, engaging memoir about how a transsexual woman and her family came to terms with her transition from male to female.
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Released: April 23, 2013
"A delightful chronicle of the education of a cook who steps back frequently to extol the scientific and philosophical basis of this deeply satisfying human activity."
Having described what's wrong with American food in his best-selling
The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006),
New York Times contributor Pollan (Journalism/Univ. of California;
Food Rules, 2012, etc.) delivers a more optimistic but equally fascinating account of how to do it right.
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