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MOONFACE: A TRUE ROMANCE, by Angela Balcita

June 13, 2011

THE FUNNIEST, MOST TOUCHING memoir about love and marriage and parenthood and kidney transplants ever written.

Grade: B PLUS

MOONFACE: A TRUE ROMANCE
Harper Perennial
2011

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23 THINGS THEY DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT CAPITALISM, by Ha-Joon Chang

June 11, 2011

ACERBIC, ICONOCLASTIC, WITTY take on free-market economists’ dogmas from a University of Cambridge economist.

Grade: A MINUS

23 THINGS THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT CAPITALISM
Bloomsbury
2011

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AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME, by Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna and Emily Holland

May 23, 2011

A LIBERIAN BROADCASTER sketches a portrait of her conflict-torn country in her own story, those of listeners.

Grade: B PLUS

AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME: A MEMOIR OF RECONCILIATION
Hyperion
2011

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I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE, by Maxine Hong Kingston

May 19, 2011

REINVENTING THE MEMOIR as poem, Maxine Hong Kingston invites us into her luminous and introspective life.

Grade: A MINUS

I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE
Knopf
2011

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LONG SHOT, by Sylvia Harris

May 5, 2011

PIONEERING AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOCKEY shares her inspiring story of facing mental illness, addiction, homelessness.

Grade: B PLUS

LONG SHOT: MY BIPOLAR LIFE AND THE HORSES WHO SAVED ME
HarperCollins
2011

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SEMPRE SUSAN, by Sigrid Nunez

April 21, 2011

INTIMATE BUT NOT GOSSIPY memoir of a writer’s complex time with her mentor/quasi-mother-in-law, Susan Sontag.

Grade: SOLID B

SEMPRE SUSAN
Atlas & Co.
2011

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THE LAST BROTHER, by Nathacha Appanah

March 29, 2011

LUMINOUS MEDITATION on love and loss, war and peace, traces friendship of a Mauritian boy and a Holocaust exile.

Grade: B PLUS

The Last Brother
Graywolf Press
2010

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CHARLIE CHAN: THE UNTOLD STORY… by Yunte Huang

March 17, 2011

CHARLIE CHAN LIVES in this utterly absorbing look at the real Hawai’i cop who inspired the fictional detective.

Grade: A MINUS

CHARLIE CHAN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HONORABLE DETECTIVE AND HIS RENDEZVOUS WITH AMERICAN HISTORY
W. W. Norton & Company
2010

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SATURDAY IS FOR FUNERALS, by Unity Dow and Max Essex

February 17, 2011

THE IMPACT OF AIDS in Botswana, highlighted in moving personal stories and updates on medical, policy advances.

Grade: B PLUS

SATURDAY IS FOR FUNERALS
Harvard University Press
2010

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THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

February 7, 2011

OPENHEARTED, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN history of cancer looks at research, clinical advances, patients’ stories.

Grade: SOLID A

THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES
Simon and Schuster
2010

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