NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 21, 2010
"Outstanding."
In her debut memoir, veteran journalist and
All Things Considered co-host Norris deftly explores the "unprecedented, hidden and robust conversation about race" now taking place throughout the United States.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 5, 2010
""Life is the biggest bargain. You get it for free," reads one of the Yiddish sayings that introduce the chapters, in a book that is both a celebration and an affirmation of life."
Memory comes alive in this compelling amalgam of drawing, narrative and archival photography.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 2, 2010
"A vividly rendered account of life in office, with plenty of beneficial pointers to aspiring politicos on either side of the Atlantic."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"A thoroughly engrossing work by an original voice--hopefully the first of many."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 15, 2010
"Without wasting a word, Grimes presents a thoroughly readable view of how stories--and writers, at least of a certain kind--are made."
NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2010
"Confirmation of the promise shown in the author's bestselling debut."
NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2010
"Revealing and riveting. There's little about his brother, his two marriages or his children, but other memoirs may follow."
Hitchens (
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, 2009, etc.) offers an engrossing account of his lives as a British Navy brat, a socialist activist and a leading essayist and intellectual of our time.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2010
"A transformational experience for author and reader alike."
NONFICTION
Released: May 4, 2010
"A near-perfect memoir."
Edmundson (English/Univ. of Virginia;
The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days, 2007, etc.) delivers a wily, playful, self-denigrating memoir.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 19, 2010
"A work of descriptive virtuosity and a hard, honest pull through rough emotional terrain--an exemplary memoir."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2010
"Several cuts above standard memoirs."
Humorous, provocative tale of a young black writer racing past personal and historical demons.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 19, 2010
"Riveting and exquisitely crafted."
Musician, poet and visual artist Smith (
Trois, 2008, etc.) chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and '70s, when both artists came of age in downtown New York.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 18, 2010
"A striking collection of memories that will mystify, enlighten, trouble and amaze."
Memoir as meditation on love and loss, birth and death, good and evil, from PEN Award winner Flynn (
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, 2005, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"Empathetic, vividly rendered and impossible to put down."
