Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mothe... More >>

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

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A life of achievement and overcoming the oddsA lifetime of challenging conventional wisdomA uniquely American story of achievementFrom his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, the life of Walter E. Williams is an "only in America" story of achievement. In Up From the Projects, this nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author recalls some of the h... More >>

Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

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"Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape of Singaporean cuisine teaches us that food is the tie that binds."
--Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles After growing up in the most food... More >>

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

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"Quite literally, I could not put this book down." --Manisha Thakor, Forbes

"...told with alarming detail and considerable humility--it's a tale that will help the reader hone his or her ambition down to a finer, more human point."   --Los Angeles Times
"This book about choices and their consequences is a gripping read."--Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices

"heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hilarious in one g... More >>

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

Our Nig

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Considered the first novel by a female African-American, Our Nig is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. Ignored upon first publication in 1859 and lost for more than 100 years, the novel achieved national attention when it was rediscovered and reprinted in 1983. Our Nig tells the story of Frado growing up as an indentured servant in the antebellum northern United States.... More >>

Our Nig

The Seamstress

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"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from tha... More >>

The Seamstress

A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy

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Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet rec... More >>

A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy