NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2012
"While Swayze's candor may prove unpalatable for some, her memoir makes a worthy addition to the canon of literature that honestly assesses grief without sentimentalizing it."
The wife of actor Patrick Swayze (1952–2009) shares bittersweet memories of caring for her husband during his battle with cancer.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2012
"A provocative, surprising look at the lesser-known parts of a sci-fi superstar's writing career."
Cyberpunk's patron saint of prose proves that his reality is every bit as trippy as his fiction.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2012
"An inspiring story of a woman who participated in "one of the greatest revolutions in history"—and is still at the forefront of the struggle."
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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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2012
"A rich record of the vicissitudes of publishing during an inimitable time and place."
A dense, detailed, priceless eyewitness account of the making of a literary generation between Paris and New York.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 17, 2012
"Leleux sweeps readers from New York to Texas to rural Tennessee on a family pilgrimage--an understated work that highlights the emotional rewards of caring for a loved one."
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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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 17, 2012
"A remarkable personal testament that will be cited by future historians of both Facebook and the Arab Spring."
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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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 19, 2012
"Confessional humor at its warm and wicked best."
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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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 31, 2012
"Powerful, important reading."
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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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"Poignant and unsettling."
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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