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Posts Tagged ‘memoir’

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Fans of The Art of Racing in the Rain, get ready for a memoir that Garth Stein calls “stunning . . . an incredible journey, both inward and outward.” Read It Forward favorite Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted and Cowboys Are My Weakness, says Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild “is a big, brave, break-your-heart-and-put-it-back-together-again kind of book. Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. She walked the Pacific Crest Trail to find forgiveness, came back with generosity – and now she shares her reward with us. I snorted with laughter, I wept uncontrollably; I don’t even want to know the person who isn’t going to love Wild. This is a beautifully made, utterly realized book.”

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Tags: autobiography, biography, cheryl strayed, knopf, memoir, wild
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The Power of Introverts in Quiet by Susan Cain

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Did you know that at least one-third of the people you know are introverts? Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Susan Cain charts the rise of “the extrovert ideal” over the twentieth century, explores its far-reaching effects, and shows us how to empower an introverted child and how companies can harness the natural talents of introverts. This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves. Check out what authors like Gretchen Rubin, Andrew Weil, and Naomi Wolf are saying, take the Quiet Quiz, read the Quiet Manifesto, learn about famous introverts in history, get advice on parenting introverted kids, and enjoy a Q&A with author Susan Cain.

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Tags: memoir, psychology, quiet, self-help, susan cain
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Patti LuPone’s Extraordinary Memoir in Paperback

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The funny, irreverent, irresistible Carol Burnett – author of This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection – says, “Patti’s story had me from the moment I turned to page one of the prologue until the absolutely triumphant final chapter . . . . She tells it like it is, warts and all. And by the time I finished reading the last chapter, I found myself giving Patti a standing ovation in the privacy of my very own living room.”

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Tags: autobiography, memoir, music, Patti LuPone, three rivers press
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Celebrated Writers Rave about The Unconquered by Scott Wallace

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe – the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. Writers Francisco Goldman, Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, and David Grann (author of The Lost City of Z) are all fans.

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Tags: adventure, amazon, biography, brazil, crown publishing group, history, memoir, scott wallace, south america, travel, unconquered
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Priscilla Warner Shares Plan for Healing

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. After forty years of hyperventilating, and an overwhelming panic attack that’s the ultimate wake-up call, Warner’s mantra becomes “Neurotic, Heal Thyself.” A spirited New Yorker, she sets out to find her inner Tibetan monk by meditating every day, aiming to rewire her brain and her body and mend her frayed nerves. On this winding path from panic to peace, she also delves into a wide range of spiritual and alternative health practices, some serious and some . . . not so much.

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Tags: free press, learning to breathe, Meditation, memoir, Personal Growth, priscilla warner, self-help, simon & schuster, the faith club, Yoga
Posted in Meet the Author


Dr. Steve Perry’s Tips for a Better Education System

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Dr. Steve Perry, author of Push Has Come to Shove, is the founder and principal of headline-making Capital Prep Magnet School, which sends all of its mostly low-income, minority students to four-year colleges. He is also the chief contributor to CNN on education issues. Capital Prep has been visited by experts from around the world to study the magic taking place there! Today we’ve asked Dr. Perry to share with us what he thinks can make a difference in the education system and what he’s doing at his school. Let us know what you think and what’s going on at your kids’ schools!

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Tags: crown publishers, Dr. Steve Perry, education, memoir, nonfiction, Push Has Come to Shove
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Lucia Greenhouse’s Journey Out of Christian Science

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

“In the back of my mind,” writes Lucia Greenhouse, author of fathermothergod, “was a little boy I didn’t know named Ian Lundman. In 1989, three years after my mother died, Ian Lundman died of untreated juvenile diabetes. His mother had been a Christian Scientist. When Ian became ill, his mother called a Christian Science practitioner (it could have been my father, but wasn’t) instead of a doctor. A Christian Science nurse sat beside this little boy as he lay dying of something that insulin would have successfully treated.” RIFers! In a book group? Check out the end of this post for a special offer for your group.

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Tags: autobiography, crown publishers, crown publishing group, fathermothegod, history, lucia greenhouse, memoir, nonfiction, religion
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Katharine Weber on The Memory of All That

Friday, July 8th, 2011

“When I set out to write The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities, although at the heart of the story lay my grandmother’s romance with George Gershwin and how it has affected my family over the decades, and how it has affected my own definitions of love and marriage, I thought I was going to write a book about family stories – how we tell them, and how we hear them, what they mean to us, how the narrative impulse functions in a family’s identity, and how all this influenced me as a novelist.

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Tags: autobiography, katharine weber, memoir, the memory of all that
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Sandra Beasley on Embracing Life with Allergies

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

“In my new memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life,” says Sandra Beasley, “I delve into the nitty-gritty of how food allergies affect us, all the way from childhood into our teenage and adult years. I don’t just mean how allergies impact our physical selves (though that can be comically mortifying) but how they shape our social selves, our romantic selves, our role in a family, and our sense of mortality. Your worldview changes when something as simple as a bite of cake or a first-date kiss can send you to the hospital.”

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Tags: allergies, autobiography, crown publishing group, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl, family, health, memoir, narrative non-fiction, Sandra Beasley
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Hamilton Cain on Growing Up Baptist

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

“Linguists tell us that narratives are innate in an infant,” writes Hamilton Cain, “coiled inside a secret chamber of the mind, ripening in the dark until the moment someone or something calls them forth. The stories I first heard as a toddler came from my parents as they tucked me into a lower bunk: the baby in the manger, those lions and zebras and chimpanzees parading onto Noah’s ark, two by two. I still recall the hushed cadence of my father’s voice as it stirred an embryonic feeling inside me, one that Bible Drill would shape into an emotion more intricate and transformative, a love wide and deep.”

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Tags: autobiography, baptist, crown publishing group, hamilton cain, memoir, religion, This Boy's Faith
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