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• You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

  a Memoir

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Alexie's memoir of his early childhood and complicated relationship with his parents makes painful yet celebratory reading.

• Accidental Saints

  Bolz-Weber, Nadia

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  A former stand-up comic and now a pastor, Bolz-Weber reflects on encounters with holiness in the most unlikely places and with the most unlikely people.

• The Stranger in the Woods

  the Extraordinary Story of the North Pond Hermit

  Finkel, Michael,

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  The account of Christopher Knight , who lived by himself in the Maine woods for 27 years. This title would appeal to fans of Jon Krakauer,

• Between Them

  Remembering My Parents

  Ford, Richard, 1944-

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  Award-winning novelist Richard Ford documents both the known and unknown facts of his parents’ lives. In the process, Ford's book becomes a work of self-revelation.

• Hunger

  a Memoir of (my) Body

  Gay, Roxane

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  Hunger is used as both a physical condition and a metaphor in Gay's brave account of her life.

• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

  Essays

  Irby, Samantha

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  The hilarious musings of the ever inventive Samantha Irby will leave you desperate for more. Finely tuned to the trends in popular culture, Irby’s “The Real Housewives of Kalamazoo” or her application to become a “Bachelorette” will rate highly with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

  a Memoir

  Lukach, Mark,

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  A young couple struggles to hold their lives together following the sudden onset of the wife's mental illness.

• How to Murder Your Life

  a Memoir

  Marnell, Cat,

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  The memoir of a young woman whose rise in the world of fashion journalism, masks a secret life of prescription drug dependence and self-harm.

• On Trails

  An Exploration

  Moor, Robert (Environmental journalist),

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  A fascinating meditation on the natural world through the author's new-found interest in trails.

• Into the Gray Zone

  a Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

  Owen, Adrian M.

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  The author explores the meaning of consciousness through his work with comatose patients in a hospital setting.

• The Lost City of the Monkey God

  a True Story

  Preston, Douglas J.

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  The discovery of a lost city in the Honduran rainforest in the 1940s came with a curse. The original explorer committed suicide and recent expeditions have returned with a host of terrible diseases.

• American Heiress

  the Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

  Toobin, Jeffrey,

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  The sensational story of a crime that, in many ways, defined its era.