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The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))
Jeannette Walls
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Scribner
March 1, 2005
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In ...
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
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Knopf
October 4, 2005
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Starred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of ...
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Crown
January 25, 2005
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"I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story." Amy Krouse Rosenthal, one-time Might magazine columnist and self-confessed hater of the segue has written a snappy, random, remarkable ...
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My Friend Leonard
James Frey
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Riverhead Hardcover
June 1, 2005
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In the bold and heartbreaking My Friend Leonard, James Frey picks up the story of his extraordinary life pretty much where things left off in his breakout bestseller and Amazon.com Best Book of 2003, A Million Little Pieces, the fierce, in-your-face memoir about Frey's kamikaze run of self-destruction and ...
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Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
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Scribner
November 15, 2005
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For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parent...
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Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
Peter Manseau
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Free Press
October 4, 2005
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Peter Manseau's deeply personal memoir is a meditation on family, church, faith and self. Oh, and God too. The story of rejecting the faith you are given, only to embrace it again in some form (or at least make peace with it) may seem familiar, but lost ...
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A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11
Marian Fontana
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Simon & Schuster
August 30, 2005
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Starred Review. September 11, 2001, was the eighth anniversary of Fontana's wedding to firefighter Dave;they had plans for a night on the town;and the second day of kindergarten for their son, Aidan. Dave's last call to her was from the World Trade Tower s...
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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
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Free Press
December 20, 2005
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The recovery of repressed memories of the 1953 murder by a serial killer of an 11-year-old friend and neighbor in a blue-collar enclave in Hartford, Conn., triggered Smith's absorbing memoir. In recalling her childhood, she is compelled to describe her upb...
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Oh the Glory of It All
Sean Wilsey
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Penguin Press HC, The
May 19, 2005
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"A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are," writes Sean Wilsey, and indeed, ...
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THE TENDER BAR
J.R. Moehringer
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Hyperion
August 31, 2005
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"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir ...
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