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Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars by Lauralee Summer Back-of-the-book blurb: In this memoir about growing up homeless, Lauralee Summer and her eccentric, idealistic mother move repeatedly in search of work and a better life. When she reaches junior high Lauralee and her mother set out for Boston in search of a [...] The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley Back-of-the-book blurb: Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such [...] Don’t Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani Back-of-the-book blurb: As readers of Adriana Trigiani’s novels know, the author draws inspiration from her own family history, in particular from the lives of her two remarkable grandmothers. In Don’t Sing at the Table, Trigiani has gathered [...] The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Back-of-the-book blurb: What happens when two New Yorkers (one an ex–drag queen) do the unthinkable: start over, have a herd of kids, and get a little dirty? A happy series of accidents and a doughnut-laden [...] Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes Back-of-the-book blurb: Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her earlier memoirs appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty [...] The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen Back-of-the-book blurb: It all started when 14-year old Hannah Salwen, idealistic but troubled by a growing sense of injustice in the world, had a eureka moment when a homeless [...] Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return by Vera and Donald Blinken Back-of-the-book blurb: Vera and the Ambassador is both a compelling portrait of a U.S. embassy in a post-Cold War former Soviet satellite and a personal story of a refugee’s escape and triumphant [...] Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman; read by the author Back-of-the-box blurb: In 1986, Susie and her friend Claire, fresh-faced graduates from Brown University, were inspired by a placemat entitled “Pancakes of Many Nations” to depart on an epic trip [...] Lopsided: A Memoir by Meredith Norton Back-of-the-Book Blurb: By the age of thirty -four , Meredith Norton had been a hymnal editor, art restorer, game-show producer, and a public school teacher. She’d even lived in a tree house and shepherded goats in Minorca. But none of these unusual experiences [...] |
 
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