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Alexandra Fuller won worldwide attention, popular acclaim, and critical accolades for her memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. This engaging follow-up explores Fuller's parents' childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple's experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same sharply etched narrative that has earned the author such immense praise, Fuller expands on and offers new...
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"Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and...
1145) Blue nights
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her...
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her...
1147) Maman
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"Spanning 30 years of American history, from the twilight of Kennedy's Camelot to the days leading up to Bill Clinton's election, We Are All Good People Here explores the intimate and complex friendship between Eve Whalen and Daniella Strum. Eve, privileged child of an old Atlanta family, meets Daniella in the fall of 1962, on their first day at the all-girls Belmont College in Virginia, where the two are paired as roommates and become fast friends....
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Award-winning poet Damian Rogers' gripping memoir about being raised by a loving but unreliable single mother who struggles with mental illness only to be later diagnosed with frontal-lobe dementia. In the vein of Diane Keaton's Then Again crossed with Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle and Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire. Throughout her life, acclaimed poet Damian Rogers was never given a satisfactory account of the circumstances around her birth....
1155) Au-delà de la porte
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Le pouvoir des ombres volume tome 1
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Une porte. Une simple porte me sépare du monde extérieur. Un obstacle infranchissable. Car de l'autre cté, il y a ces choses qui me terrorisent et que je suis la seule à voir.
Des fantmes. Des esprits. Des emmerdeurs de la pire espèce. Appelez-les comme vous voulez.
Heureusement, aucun ne s'est encore montré violent envers moi.
Enfin, jusqu'à maintenant.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.
When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly,...
When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly,...
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