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  The Peanut Factory

  Deborah Price

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  A coming-of-age memoir about a young woman and her friends squatting in abandoned houses in London in the late 70s during the emerging counterculture scene.
  Set in South London (Crystal Palace), Deborah mingled with some of the biggest names to emerge from the scene. She booked The Damned's first show, served pints to Johnny Rotten, and attended a backyard gig from King Kurt.
  Squat life was sex, drugs and punk rock but it wasn't all fun and games. The Peanut Factory shows Deborah navigating a male-dominated scene, moving every few months and living with drug dealers, sex workers, people on the run, and working-class kids like her.
  Despite the chaos, the squatters were a family. They were kids creating their own rules. Making art. Living life on the fly. The Peanut Factory is an ode to the youthful rebellion of the 1970s and to London itself.
  'A window into a time of raw energy and rough edges, Deb Price paints a vivid picture of life in the squats of South London. By turns amusing and alarming, but always engaging, we accompany a teenager as she navigates her way to womanhood in a sub-culture on the margins.' - Allie Rogers, author of Little Gold and Tale of a Tooth

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  Tenebrae - A Memoir of Love and...

  Dan Flanigan

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  Tenebrae is the ancient Latin word for darkness—the gradual extinguishment of light, one candle flame at a time. 
    
  In this memoir told in poems, Dan Flanigan follows that gradual dimming through the last illness and death of his wife. Written in free verse and prose poems, Tenebrae moves across the full arc of a long marriage. These poems refuse the familiar consolations. There is no posturing, no preciousness, no self-pity. A dying woman is rendered as fully human—strong, flawed, dignified, unmistakably herself—and the speaker does not cast himself as hero.  
    
  Other poems in the book reflect this same grappling with the fundamental issues of our lives—loss, hope, despair and acceptance, reflecting a compassionate embrace of the human condition. 
     
  If you think you don’t like poetry, Tenebrae may change your mind. 
   
  These are truly poems for the people—plain but exquisitely crafted and expressed in a language that is both elegant and easy to understand… They reach from the heart to the heart.

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  Of Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì...

  Oanh Ngo Usadi

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  A quietly affecting and laugh-out-loud funny immigrant memoir tells the story of a girl and her family as they flee Vietnam to America in the 1980s.Wall Street Journal bestsellerAmazon bestseller in MemoirPublishers Weekly BookLife Prize Finalist, #1 Memoir in 2018 
  "In dark times like these, the ability to find what binds us is vital. In Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches, Oanh Ngo Usadi brings empathy and vivid storytelling to her young life as a Vietnamese girl fleeing the country with her family after the Vietnam War. At once an ode to the beauty of her home country and a harrowing depiction of the horrors of leaving it for an uncertain new life, Monkey Bridges is the sort of book we need right now, to remind us that for all our differences, we share love, fear, and the hope of redemption. As Usadi and her family slowly adjust to their new lives in Texas, it becomes clear that theirs is a quintessentially American story." -- Julie Powell, author of best-selling memoir, Julie & Julia,

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  Boy Interrupted: A Southern...

  William Scandrett

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  Boy, Interrupted: A Southern Memoir of Faith, Identity, and Becoming is a powerful true story of a Black, queer boy growing up in rural Georgia—surviving poverty, shame, trauma, and heartbreak, and rising into the man he was always meant to be. 
  Part coming-of-age narrative, part spiritual testimony, and part exploration of identity and resilience, this memoir follows the author from the dirt roads of Upson County to college dorms in Savannah, and into classrooms, communities, and landscapes where he begins to claim freedom, purpose, and self-love. 
  Through unforgettable figures—a grandmother who was sanctuary, a mother battling illness and addiction, a distant father, and a boy navigating queerness in the rural South—the story reveals how a life can be interrupted again and again… and still bloom. 
  With honesty, humor, and lyrical insight, the memoir explores faith, queerness, Southern identity, grief, mental health, masculinity, childhood trauma, and generational survival. Readers witness a boy teased for his softness, a teen praying away parts of himself, and a young man rebuilding what the world tried to break. 
  But Boy, Interrupted is not just about surviving—it’s about becoming. 
  For anyone who has ever felt different, broken, unseen, or interrupted, this memoir offers a powerful truth: your soul can still finish the sentence.

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  The Major and the Missionary - A...

  Diana Pavlac Glyer

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  After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their own trials and longings. Their letters paint a colorful portrait that illuminates not only the particulars of distant times and places, but the intimate contours of a rare friendship.

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  Thin Places - Portraits Prayers...

  Arthur Thomas Lee

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  between the lines on any stranger’s face, countless love stories needing to be told…  
   
  There is, across the globe, an ever-growing disconnect. People everywhere are divided by borders and boundaries and walls—if not geographically, then certainly as they pertain to our convictions and the untamed country that is the human heart. Among so much dissonance, how attainable then is harmony? And where, at last, is it to be found? In his debut collection of interconnected personal essays and poetry, Arthur Thomas Lee introduces us to myriads of individuals not unlike ourselves, people whose stories hold, between their lines, keys to greater compassion and understanding. To that end, Thin Places: Portraits, Prayers, and Liminal Grace takes us on a lyrical journey through which nature becomes our ever-present guide, difference gives way to deference, patchwork paths find purpose, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and each stranger—fighting for light in the thick of understory—transforms into familiar lifelong companion. It is, at once, a heart-felt prayer, a bold beck and call for love in the face of deep division, and for greater measures of grace along the way—all while passing our time, our limited time, on this our liminal planet.

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