Personal Memoir

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As acts of kindness go, it was a pretty big one.

And one that surely must have seemed as if it could and would never be repaid.

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In “Mercury,” the first of four all-too-brief essays that together comprise the final thin volume of his writings, entitled Gratitude, Oliver Sacks writes of his patients “in their ninetie

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Joseph Polak is from the same nation as Anne Frank, The Netherlands.

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Riad Sattouf, the cartoonist and social commentator, has drawn a colorful and engaging first chapter of his three-part autobiography—now in English.

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Sheila Hamilton and her daughter Sophie suffered unimaginably and yet found their way to wholeness again. Both were entirely upended by the behavior and suicide of their husband and father, David.

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“May we find the courage . . . to make this land . . . a more just, more reasonable, and more tolerant place.”

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There’s a Terrance Hayes line that goes “A bandanna is a useful handkerchief, but a handkerchief is a useless-ass bandanna.” A golfer or three-point-shooter might say “Never over, never in.” An unc

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Primates is a single-season sensation that does little more than titillate.”

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“What I feel, I cannot unfeel. What I know I cannot unknow. I can no longer escape my culpability, the mess that I have made. My crime is all I see. My crime is all there is.”

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In Spinster by Kate Bolick, we are taken on a journey of learning.

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Barney Frank came to Washington with Ronald Reagan in 1980. There ends any similarity between them.

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“What is family? Is it something we inherit, or is it something that we build? The book was the key to everything, the key to my life.

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Writer Dale Peck was a journalism student at Columbia University when he joined ACT-UP at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

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“A writer of extreme beauty, a shaper of divine sentences, Macdonald is also a memoirist who understands the power of telling a story . . .”

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“the message of hope and inspiration has the potential to help millions who are survivors of trauma and the people closest to them.”

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American Goulash tells Stephanie Yuhas’s childhood story with humor, pathos, and love.”

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Nazila Fathi is a woman of courage. She is also a very good writer.

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“The sense of being pulled in two directions begets tension, alienation, and flecks of enlightenment . . .”

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The Other Side is one woman's recounting of a traumatic incident filled with raw emotion and horror.

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According to Roz Savage every day is a choice: You can drift along or work. Drifting can be very pleasant. Work requires purposeful, intentional effort.

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There is a reason why you may not have heard of Miles Aldridge, and it is the same reason why this book is one of those memorable experiences that comes with discovery of the unexpected.

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