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Hurry Down Sunshine
by Michael Greenberg
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September 9, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Michael Greenberg's spare, unflinching memoir begins with a bang: "On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad." Hurry Down Sunshine chronicles the summer when fifteen-year-old Sally experienced her first full-blown manic episode—an event that in a "single stroke" changed her identity ...
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Collections of Nothing
by William Davies King
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University Of Chicago Press
July 25, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, December 2008: One of the oddest memoirs of the year may well be the best. William Davies King is a theater professor who over his fifty-plus years has gathered, in countless binders and boxes, a vast collection of things nobody else wants: cat-food labels, ...
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Sitting Bull
by Bill Yenne
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Westholme Publishing
April 28, 2008
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Amazon Significant Seven, April 2008: As a celebrated warrior, shaman, and leader of the Lakota tribe, Sitting Bull was both a fascinating and frightening icon to the expanding United States, a 19th-century cross-cultural superstar who was at once a friend to Buffalo Bill and the emblem of Native American ...
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The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
by Joan Wickersham
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
August 4, 2008
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In spare prose, Wickersham (The Paper Anniversary) has produced an artful and vivid memoir. Within the index of suicide, she has found a form capacious enough for both intimate detail and general information; cold data and lyric moments; for mystery and for consolation. As she follows her father's suicide ...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
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Bantam
September 29, 2008
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In this startlingly frank account of Buffett's life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley...
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own
by David Carr
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Simon & Schuster
August 5, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, August 2008: In his fabulously entertaining The Kid Stays in the Picture, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans wrote: "There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth." David Carr's riveting debut memoir, The Night of the Gun, takes this theory to ...
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
by Lee Israel
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Simon & Schuster
August 5, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, August 2008: If David Carr's voluminous, well-documented Night of the Gun is the Warren Report of apologetic memoirs, Lee Israel's Can You Ever Forgive Me? is its cheeky, slim opposite. Barely repentant and witheringly funny, Israel recalls her short life of literary crime as, ...
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields
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February 5, 2008
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Amazon Significant Seven, February 2008: "After you turn 7, your risk of dying doubles every eight years." By your 80s, you "no longer even have a distinctive odor ... You're vanishing." "The brain of a 90-year-old is the same size as that of a 3-year-old." And it goes ...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami
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Knopf
July 29, 2008
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Murakami's latest is a nonfiction work mostly concerned with his thoughts on the long-distance running he has engaged in for much of his adult life. Through a mix of adapted diary entries, old essays, reminiscences and life advice, Murakami crafts a charmi...
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
by Brenda Wineapple
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Knopf
August 12, 2008
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Starred Review. In 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a noted man of letters and radical activist for abolition and women's rights, asking if he would look at her poems. He did and recognized immediately their strange power. As Wine...
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