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Product Description: Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn captured the imagination of readers in 1943. Now, over sixty years since its publication, thousands of readers of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn still enter its world and identify with Francie Nolan, growing up in a tenement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...read more

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9780970224934 | Wolfs Pond Pr, January 30, 2008, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn captured the imagination of readers in 1943.

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Product Description: Asia on my Mind - From Ceylon to the Silk Road: A MemoirAs the 21st century unfolds, kindergartens teach Mandarin, spas offer reiki, cafeterias feature lunchtime sushi and Uma Thurman rocks movie theaters with kung fu. Asia is everywhere in America...read more

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9781432721800 | Outskirts Pr, August 15, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Asia on my Mind - From Ceylon to the Silk Road: A MemoirAs the 21st century unfolds, kindergartens teach Mandarin, spas offer reiki, cafeterias feature lunchtime sushi and Uma Thurman rocks movie theaters with kung fu.

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Product Description: It’s time to get past the idea that divorce equals failure. Sure, it may not be what you had in mind when you walked down the aisle, but if it’s the escape hatch into a better life, it should be filled with more promise. It can be celebrated...read more
By Candace Walsh (editor)

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9781580052764 | Seal Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: It’s time to get past the idea that divorce equals failure.

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Product Description: The author presents a highly detailed account of the lives of her Armenian immigrant parents and life in Watertown, Massachusetts as a youngster. This includes an ethnography of the village in historic Armenia her parents came from after the Armenian Genocide as well as descriptions of East Watertown and Watertown High School...read more

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9781929966080 | Ohan Pr, June 1, 2010, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author presents a highly detailed account of the lives of her Armenian immigrant parents and life in Watertown, Massachusetts as a youngster.

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Product Description: In this brave, eloquent, and funny memoir, critically acclaimed author Lily Burana writes about love and self-discovery with an honesty few writers would dare. A former stripper with a penchant for fishnets and anarchist politics, Lily's lacerating wit and rebellious past never would have suggested a marriage into the military...read more

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9781602860834 | Perseus Books Group, April 14, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An all-American love story about a former punk-rock stripper and her unlikely marriage to an officer in the U.

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9781602861251 | Reprint edition (Perseus Books Group, August 3, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this brave, eloquent, and funny memoir, critically acclaimed author Lily Burana writes about love and self-discovery with an honesty few writers would dare.

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By Heather Sellers and Karen White (narrator)

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9781441765291 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 14, 2010), cover price $32.95

This is a stunningly perceptive, hilarious memoir of the transformative humiliation of childhood -- and adulthood -- from a truly original, already beloved voice. When Heather Havrilesky was a kid in the seventies, it seemed there were only disaster movies. Burning towers, devouring earthquakes, careening airliners, alien pod invasions. To be prepared, she and her siblings fabricated elaborate plans to escape any and every emergency. But what began merely as a childhood game grew into a way of life where something shocking lurked around every corner. A brave and hilarious memoir, Disaster Preparedness charts how the most painful moments in Havrilesky's life prepared her for a cautious but honest adulthood. From her naive take on her parents' D-I-V-O-R-C-E, to losing her virginity in less than ideal circumstances, to losing her father way before she was ready, in chapter after chapter Havrilesky peels back the layers of her childhood innocence and reveals the wounds that have shaped her, the lessons that have -- despite her thickheadedness -- managed to sink in, and the laughter that has carried her through. By laying bare her bumps and bruises, Havrilesky offers hope that anyone can create a frazzled and unruly, desperate and wistful, fabulously frayed-at-the-edges plan to stare disaster in the face, to meet it head-on. Uproarious, sophisticated, and wise, Disaster Preparedness is a field guide to personal disasters from an irresistible voice that gets to the heart of it all.

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9781441769534 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 22, 2011), cover price $76.00
9781441769558 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 30, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is a stunningly perceptive, hilarious memoir of the transformative humiliation of childhood -- and adulthood -- from a truly original, already beloved voice.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781441769527 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 30, 2010), cover price $54.95

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By Joan Allen (narrator) and Annie Proulx

CD/Spoken Word:

9780743597241 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, January 4, 2011), cover price $29.99

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Hardcover:

9781595583239 | New Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $27.95
9780195803389, titled "Peasants and Their Agricultural Economy in Colonial Malaya, 1874-1941" | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1978, cover price $27.50 | also contains Peasants and Their Agricultural Economy in Colonial Malaya, 1874-1941

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Product Description: “You’ll call this sentimental—perhaps—but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. In this charming and engaging book, Maureen Adams celebrates this private, playful side telling readers about the relationships between five remarkable women writers and their dogs...read more

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9780226005362 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “You’ll call this sentimental—perhaps—but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend.

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Product Description: What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single? Wander the globe searching for romance and adventure, of course. On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life...read more

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9780307450630 | Crown Pub, June 1, 2010, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single?

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9780307450647 | Broadway Books, June 28, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single?

Miscellaneous:

9780307450913 | Crown Pub, June 1, 2010, cover price $24.00

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9781400118694 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 26, 2010), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique t.

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Hardcover:

9781594487736 | Riverhead Books, October 14, 2010, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9781594485404 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $16.00

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9781441765307, titled "You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face-blindness, and Forgiveness" | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 14, 2010), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: “Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky...read more

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9781410434937 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 5, 2011), cover price $32.99 | About this edition: “Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River.

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Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.] [Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris--and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss...read more

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9781470832308 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 14, 2012), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.

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Product Description: Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business...read more

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9780816683468 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 17, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old.

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A New York Times Bestseller -- In 2009, bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. With no classes to teach, no meetings to attend, no lawn to mow, Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life. Paris in Love invites the reader into the life of a most enchanting family, framed by la ville de l'amour.

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9781410451644 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 10, 2012), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller -- In 2009, bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris.
9781400069569 | Random House Inc, April 3, 2012, cover price $26.00

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9780812981902 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 26, 2013), cover price $15.00

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[MP3CD Audiobook format in vinyl case] [Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris--and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning. With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, the man to whom she was married for fifteen years and with whom she had two children, and Richard, with whom she found enduring love, Marton paints a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history. Inspirational and deeply human, Paris: A Love Story will touch every generation.

Hardcover:

9781410453587 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 26, 2012), cover price $31.99
9781451691542 | Simon & Schuster, August 14, 2012, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9781451691559 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 12, 2013), cover price $14.99

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9781470832346 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 14, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: [MP3CD Audiobook format in vinyl case] [Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris--and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended.
9781470832322 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 14, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: [Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris -- and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended.

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Hardcover:

9780374298975 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 13, 2012, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9780374534202 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 12, 2013, cover price $16.00 | also contains Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'engle in Many Voices

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Product Description: Maud Howe Elliott (1854–1948), the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and a tireless supporter of the arts, particularly in her adopted city of Newport, Rhode Island. An art historian and the author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including countless articles and short stories, Elliott is perhaps best known for co-writing a biography of her mother—a major figure in the political and cultural world of New England, a woman’s suffrage leader, and a leading progressive political voice...read more

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9781611684957 | Univ Pr of New England, January 7, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Maud Howe Elliott (1854–1948), the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and a tireless supporter of the arts, particularly in her adopted city of Newport, Rhode Island.

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Hardcover:

9780821420867 | Ohio Univ Pr, March 11, 2014, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780821420874 | Ohio Univ Pr, March 11, 2014, cover price $28.95

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