The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood by Bill Bryson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Bryson
"Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything w ...Show more
Dog Medicine by Julie Barton
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Category: Biography & Memoir
At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home. Psychiatrists, therapists and family tried to intervene, but nothing reach ...Show more
Truth about Trump by Michael D'Antonio
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters struggled to be ...Show more
Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession by William Skidelsky
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Category: Biography & Memoir
For much of the past decade, William Skidelsky has not been able to stop thinking about Roger Federer, the greatest and most graceful tennis player of all time. It's a devotion that has been all-consuming. In Federer and Me, Skidelsky asks what it is about the Swiss star that transfixes him, and countle ...Show more
No Man is an Island by Adele Dumont
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2010, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont volunteered to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She didn't expect to find the work so rewarding or the people she met so interesting. So when she was offered a job working at Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Aus ...Show more
In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts by Jane Miller
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Category: Biography & Memoir
For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain open a window to her American readers of a world very different from their own. Jane ...Show more
Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case That Captivated a Nation: The Case That Inspired the Podcast Phenomenon Serial by Rabia Chaudry
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'The first letter I received after being arrested in 1999 was from Rabia. Since that time until now, she has believed in my innocence and been committed to my exoneration...[T]here is no one better to help tell my story, and no one that I trust more to tell it, than Rabia.' (Adnan Syed). On February 28, ...Show more
Of All That Ends by Gunter Grass
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Suddenly, in spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness. Only an aging artist who has once more cheated death can get to work with such wisdom, defiance and ...Show more
How to Ruin Everything Essays by George Watsky
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." --Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tir ...Show more
Freeing Peter by Juris Greste
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Freeing Peter tells the extraordinary true story of how an ordinary Australian family took on the Egyptian government to get Peter Greste out of prison. What would you do if a loved one were to suddenly find themselves in the most impossible of situations? That's the question addressed in Freeing Peter ...Show more
Lecretia's Choice: A Story of Love, Death and the Law by Matt Vickers
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Category: Biography & Memoir
I want to make things easier for people coming after me,' Lecretia told the interviewer. 'I want to make a difference to the law. And it's quite exciting that I'm in a position where I might be able to do that.' She had just learned that chemotherapy was no longer an option. A successful young lawyer i ...Show more