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A Memoir
Pub Date: Mar 1, 2012
A New York publicist and producer's unsparing yet compassionate account of her dysfunctional childhood and the father who both charmed and victimized her family.
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An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Pub Date: Jan 31, 2012
In a book that is part memoir, part journalistic exposé and part cultural history, novelist Treuer (The Translation of Dr. Apelles, 2008, etc.) offers a movingly plainspoken account of reservation life.
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Pub Date: Jan 19, 2012
Actor and bestselling author Fry's (Stephen Fry in America, 2009, etc.) at times meandering but always charming memoir of "a late adolescence and early manhood crowded with incident."
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A Family Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving
Pub Date: Jan 17, 2012
A memoir of Alzheimer's during its final stages and of a family's attempt to provide support for a spirited grandmother whose changed outlook allowed a vital relationship to move from estrangement to reconciliation.
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The Power of the People Is Greater than the People in Power: A Memoir
Pub Date: Jan 17, 2012
A demonstration of the power of social networking by a Google engineer named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2011.
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The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom
Pub Date: Jan 10, 2012
A searingly honest debut memoir by a leader in the fight for a woman's right to "legally gain and exercise reproductive choice—the power of life and death."
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