Memoir | Biography and Memoir
Feb.01.2010
Snap Shot Stories by Maria Mendoza
Written as a memoir of true events based in the Downriver area of Michigan, Booze House is a tour de force emotional ride that vividly and powerfully portrays the experience of surviving a broken family unit! With gritty realism and candor, author Maria Mendoza...
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Jan.29.2010
Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle...
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Jan.26.2010
From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But at 19, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by 21, she couldn’t grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was...
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Jan.24.2010
Divorce in the twenty-first century should come with an instruction manual, a release valve, and a support system. This book will serve as all three, in the form of comforting, insightful, and inspirational stories about surviving and thriving during and after divorce. In the bestselling tradition...
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Jan.24.2010
Having a spouse, sibling, or parent with Alzheimer’s affects a family in every way possible—and can leave people feeling like they have nowhere to turn. The moving stories in this new collection help readers recognize they are not alone—and provide comfort for those who need it now more than ever....
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Jan.23.2010
An exploration of the borders between the United States, Canada, and Mexico becomes a comedy of breakdowns in small towns all around America in this four-month, ten-thousand mile adventure. Experience moments of blissful backroads freedom, cultural connection, and roadside romance--interrupted by...
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Jan.09.2010
How to Get Divorced by 30 is a hilarious memoir about the ending of a marriage that should have lasted forever-or at least for five years.
It's an age-old story. Girl meets boy. Girl marries boy. Girl decides she is way too young to be stuck in nuptial mediocrity.
When Sascha realized that...
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Jan.06.2010
Tales of immigrants arriving in the United States with only pennies in their pockets are common in history books. Yet it was 1991, less than twenty years ago, when the young heroine of White Pearl and I left her family in Russia to seek her fortune in America. Though she had only a dollar to her...
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Jan.06.2010
Tales of immigrants arriving in the United States with only pennies in their pockets are common in history books. Yet it was 1991, less than twenty years ago, when the young heroine of White Pearl and I left her family in Russia to seek her fortune in America. Though she had only a dollar to her...
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Dec.18.2009
Writers Reflect on their Dreams of Youth & the Reality of Age
Featuring essays by Malachy McCourt, Joyce Maynard, Alan Dershowitz, Eileen Goudge and more
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