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Category: Biography and Memoir
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Louise Steinman remembers Maciej Ziembinski, a pioneering journalist, editor, advocate, historian, and central figure in her book, ‘The Crooked Mirror.’
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Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, examines the true legacy—of activism, struggle, and radical transformative change—left by Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela.
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Lillian Faderman’s extraordinary and complex book about her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York is now available as an audiobook.
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Listeners can now hear Michael Patrick MacDonald read his bestselling memoir in a new audiobook version.
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An excerpt from All Souls that illuminates the life of one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the Whitey Bulger trial.
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A new memoir exposes life inside a family devoted to the John Birch society.
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What if the LGBT Pride Parades held in the cities combined with the small-town pride parades of the prairie? Melanie Hoffert imagines a utopian future.
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For a limited time, visit Beacon Press at Scribd to download a PDF of Plante's extraordinary memoir American Ghosts for free. If you'd rather get a copy of the paperback, order from Beacon for the special low price of $3.99. You can also get The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief and The Country: A Novel for $3.99 each. Order…
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Martin Moran discusses the new audiobook of The Tricky Part and his latest play, All the Rage.
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Three memoir passages reflect on different aspects of motherhood.
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