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NO REGRETS: THE LIFE OF EDITH PIAF, by Carolyn Burke

September 16, 2011

NEWEST EDITH PIAF biography will delight fans of the French singer with the breadth and depth of its research.

Grade: SOLID B

NO REGRETS: THE LIFE OF EDITH PIAF
Knopf Doubleday
2011

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THIS LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS, by Melissa Coleman

September 15, 2011

HEARTBREAKINGLY DIRECT, BEAUTIFUL and wrenching memoir of a 1970s childhood on a pioneering organic farm.

Grade: B PLUS

THIS LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS: THE STORY OF MY FAMILY'S DREAM
HarperCollins
2011

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FORGED, by Bart Ehrman

September 4, 2011

DISTINGUISHED BIBLICAL SCHOLAR Bart Ehrman’s evidence-based challenge to the Christian canon’s authenticity.

Grade: B PLUS

FORGED: WRITING IN THE NAME OF GOD--WHY THE BIBLE'S AUTHORS ARE NOT WHO WE THINK THEY ARE
HarperOne

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DEATH AND THE VIRGIN QUEEN, by Chris Skidmore

August 17, 2011

A TUDOR SCANDAL RETOLD with a journalistic touch in this well researched examination of the Amy Robsart mystery.

Grade: SOLID B

DEATH AND THE VIRGIN QUEEN: ELIZABETH AND THE DARK SCANDAL THAT ROCKED THE THRONE
St. Martin's Press
2011

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DRINKING WITH MISS DUTCHIE, by Ed Breslin

August 15, 2011

A BELOVED DOG inspires a man to stop drinking and start living. Touching, candid, and surprisingly wry.

Grade: SOLID B

DRINKING WITH MISS DUTCHIE: A MEMOIR
St. Martin's Press
2011

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WANTON WEST, by Lael Morgan

August 14, 2011

GOSSIPY, FUN HISTORY looks at the madams and dance-hall girls who were high rollers in 19th-century Montana.

Grade: SOLID B

WANTON WEST: MADAMS, MONEY, MURDER, AND THE WILD WOMEN OF MONTANA'S FRONTIER
Chicago Review Press
2011

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THE MEMORY PALACE, by Mira Bartók

August 13, 2011

GORGEOUS, TERRIFYING, HEART-STOPPING memoir of an artist’s life in flight from a schizophrenic mother’s rages.

Grade: B PLUS

THE MEMORY PALACE
Simon and Schuster
2011

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NOWHERE NEAR NORMAL, by Traci Foust

August 11, 2011

CLEAR-EYED, FUNNY, TRENCHANT memoir of a childhood shaped by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, family dysfunction.

Grade: B PLUS

NOWHERE NEAR NORMAL: A MEMOIR OF OCD
Simon and Schuster
2011

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THIS BOY’S FAITH, by Hamilton Cain

August 7, 2011

A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHILDHOOD is remembered, reframed in a time of family crisis in eloquent, bittersweet memoir. B PLUS

Grade: B PLUS

THIS BOY'S FAITH: NOTES FROM A SOUTHERN BAPTIST UPBRINGING
Crown
2011

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INDIA CALLING, by Anand Giridharadas

June 23, 2011

INSIDE INDIA’S CHANGING society with an Indian-American expatriate journalist. Fascinating interviews, insights.

Grade: SOLID B

INDIA CALLING: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A NATION'S REMAKING
Henry Holt & Company
2011

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