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GROWGIRL, by Heather Donahue

May 10, 2012

ENTERTAINING MEMOIR FOLLOWS a woman’s journey from cult film stardom to marijuana farming (and back out!)

Grade: SOLID B

GROWGIRL: HOW MY LIFE AFTER THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT WENT TO POT
Penguin
2012

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THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, by Pamela Redmond

May 9, 2012

MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY SAGA takes on class, race, adoption, reproductive rights, but never quite comes alive.

Grade: SOLID B

THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU
Gallery Books
2012

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MAD LIKE TESLA, by Tyler Hamilton

May 4, 2012

A LAID-BACK LOOK AT a wide range of “clean energy” inventors, from the mainstream to the maverick. Fascinating!

Grade: SOLID B

MAD LIKE TESLA: UNDERDOG INVENTORS AND THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF CLEAN ENERGY
ECW Press
2011

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SOME OF MY LIVES, by Rosamond Bernier

May 3, 2012

AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.

Grade: SOLID B

SOME OF MY LIVES: A SCRAPBOOK MEMOIR
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011

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CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER, by Leslie Meier

May 2, 2012

CHARMING COZY MYSTERY set in small-town coastal Maine features a local newspaper reporter (and mom) as sleuth.

Grade: SOLID B

CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER
Kensington
2011

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THIS LOVE IS NOT FOR COWARDS, by Robert Andrew Powell

April 30, 2012

TOUCHING TRUE STORY of the pride and hope the beleaguered citizens of Ciudad Juárez have found in soccer.

Grade: SOLID B

THIS LOVE IS NOT FOR COWARDS: SALVATION AND SOCCER IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
Bloomsbury USA
2012

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THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY, by John Moynihan

April 27, 2012

SNAPSHOTS OF A LOST ERA vividly captured in a young writer/artist’s diary of his 1980 Merchant Marine voyage.

Grade: SOLID B

THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY: AN ADVENTURE AT SEA
Random House
2011

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IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING, by Beach Conger

April 24, 2012

CHARMING, CHATTY MEMOIR from a Vermont country doctor has plenty of humor, compassion, and local color.

Grade: SOLID B

IT'S PROBABLY NOTHING: MORE ADVENTURES OF A VERMONT COUNTRY DOCTOR
Chelsea Green
2011

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FAITH, by John Love

April 22, 2012

THOUGHTFUL SPACE OPERA features anti-hero outsiders battling a mysterious, technologically superior alien ship.

Grade: SOLID B

FAITH
Night Shade Books
2012

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HOW ESKIMOS KEEP THEIR BABIES WARM, by Mei-Ling Hopgood

April 21, 2012

ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING look at the many  different ways people raise children all around the world.

Grade: SOLID B

HOW ESKIMOS KEEP THEIR BABIES WARM: AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN PARENTING (FROM ARGENTINA TO TANZANIA AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN)
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2012

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