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Category: Biography and Memoir
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In an interview with Kate Whouley, the author of Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words discusses her mother’s dementia and the lessons Whouley learned caring for her.
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In her new memoir, Kate Whouley shares the trying, the tender, and the sometimes hilarious moments in meeting the challenge also known as Mom.
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In honor of Judge Nancy Gertner’s retirement, here are some videos of her talking about her legal career, including her first case as a lawyer and how she became a judge.
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The exam room is like a confessional. Patricia Harman writes about some of the lessons she’s learned from her patients.
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What’s in a name? Nick Krieger explains his decision to have his old name in the title of his memoir.
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A father watches his son and asks himself, “When, I wonder, did I first begin to lose my faith in the moment I was living in? When did my life first start to feel like a sprawling “to do” list?”
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A selection of excerpts from new and backlist Beacon LGBT titles.
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Judge Nancy Gertner discusses her life as a defense lawyer, what it meant to her to defend women, and the different paths Gertner and Justice Sotomayor took to becoming judges.
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On sale today: Nancy Gertner’s In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate.
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