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NONFICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
UP: A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER'S PEAKBAGGING ADVENTURE
by Patricia Ellis Herr
"Warmly ruminative and honestly observant. Witty, unforced humor rescues passages that might be boring in another writer's hands."
A mother and her young daughter bond through hiking. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star BYE BYE BABYLON: BEIRUT 1975-1979
by Lamia Ziadé, illustrated by Lamia Ziadé, translated by Olivia Snaije
"Stunning in both the art and the audacity."
Visually arresting and emotionally devastating, this graphic memoir of war and childhood feels like an art book and explodes like a car bomb. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star NIGHTCAP AT DAWN: AMERICAN SOLDIERS' COUNTERINSURGENCY IN IRAQ
by J.B. Walker
"A bracing cooperative effort taking readers as close to war as humanly possible."
Iraq war experiences from those who were there. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 27, 2012
TWO RINGS: A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR
by Millie Werber, Eve Keller
"A deeply affecting addition to Holocaust literature."
A dramatic Holocaust memoir about young love and survival. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 20, 2012
Kirkus Star WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN WINTER: A MEMOIR IN BLINDNESS
by Candia McWilliam
"Anyone who enjoys a play of words and appreciates the turn of a phrase in a beautifully constructed sentence will value this book for years to come."
Not just a remarkable memoir of McWilliam's (Wait Till I Tell You, 1997, etc.) battle with the onset of blindness, but also a blissful celebration of the poetry of her prose. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 20, 2012
Kirkus Star WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL
by Cheryl Strayed
"A candid, inspiring narrative of the author's brutal physical and psychological journey through a wilderness of despair to a renewed sense of self."
Unsentimental memoir of the author's three-month solo hike from California to Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail. Read full book review >