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  News from The Village - Aegean...

  David Masson

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  A memoir of friendship, history, and longing in a Greek village that “introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites” (A.E. Stallings, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist).   In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece.  Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable dream of intimate magic, but through decades of steadfast affection, David Mason grew to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a citizen of one’s own country and a citizen of the world.     From a writer praised for his “often intoxicating language” (Kirkus Reviews), News from the Village is a lyrical memoir of Aegean friends, including such figures as Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Chatwin, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Yiorgos Chouliaras, and Patrick Leigh Fermor, each of whom comes fully alive, along with a brilliant cast of lesser-known characters.  Fearing he has lost Greece and everything it has meant in his life, Mason goes back again and again to the country he knew as a young man.  He encounters Turkey and Greece together in the shadow of 9/11; follows the lives of his friends, whose trials sometimes surpass his own; and brings them all together in the circle of this generous narrative.  Ultimately, Mason’s memoir is about what we can hold and what slips away, what sustains us all through our griefs and disappointments.    “Mason realizes he must confront shifting politics, village tensions, family tragedy, and history with blood on its hands before he can love Greece as she is rather than as he would have her be.  Along the way, he introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites—and travels that stretch from the Rockies to the Bosphorus—the journey of a lifetime.”—A.E. Stallings, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Like

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  Summary of Dan Lyons's Disrupted

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Dan Lyons's Disrupted is a memoir about Lyons’s experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known for starting a popular satirical blog about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At age 51, he lost his job in the magazine’s downsizing. He started looking for another job right away to support his young children and his wife, who had just quit her job for health reasons. 
  The media industry had changed substantially from the time Lyons first started working as a journalist, and he found it difficult to find another job. He accepted a position as editor-in-chief of the news website ReadWrite, which required a lot of travel, and noticed his journalist colleagues transitioning to marketing departments at startups to take advantage of the booming startup economy. Lyons decided to pursue the same career change…

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  Harry Would Be So Proud - A...

  Eric V. Litsky

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  Have you ever looked back and pondered about how you became the person you are today?  
  Scattered throughout our lives are snippets of memories, perhaps the warm glow of nostalgia, mixed with the twinge of loss… and if you’re lucky, some of those memories are as hysterically funny and equally heartwarming as this book’s trip down memory lane. 
  In his debut book, author Eric Litsky takes us on a journey of growing up in New York City in the 50’s and 60’s from the point of view of a boy who ran wild, getting into high jinx and impossible situations, but all with the love of a family that tethered him safely to home. 
  Laugh out loud stories are woven seamlessly with precious memories and life lessons, leaving the reader longing for “the good old days” while also being immensely grateful for the experiences and people that shaped us. 
  In “Harry Would be So Proud”, an appreciation for our past weaves seamlessly into how we grow and look to the future. Pick up this book today for an experience that is pure joy.  
  Eric is also the author of the book Frying Pork Chops Naked: Another Pocketful of Funny Life Stories. 
  Eric Litsky was born in the Bronx and raised in Queens in the middle of the post war baby boom years. After tumultuous college years he had a ten year career in advertising/public relations followed by three decades as a commercial real estate broker. Between his career and raising a family, Litsky has been an amateur singer/songwriter, tango dancer, stage actor and now an author. 
  The stories from his life are handled with a light touch and self-deprecating humor.

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  Alternadad

  Neal Pollack

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  In Alternadad, Neal Pollack offers   a wonderfully candid account of his and his wife’s attempt to bring up their son while still   having fun and preserving their attachment to youth culture.  For Pollack, this means bringing the boy to music festivals and teaching him about the   history of rock and roll, and nothing brings joy to his heart like hearing his son say he   wants to listen to the Ramones. It means having posters of Johnny Cash and not of Wilco,   or learning that Baby Bear is a terrible show while Sesame Street rocks. It means teaching   your son to be irreverent without being a bad kid.   In the end, Alternadad is about learning to be a responsible parent who can also teach his   son how to mosh. It also just might become the parenting bible for a new generation of   parents trying to raise their kids in an increasingly homogenized and uptight culture.

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  Little Known Facts: Miriam Shor

  Ilana Levine

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  Miriam Shor is an award-winning actress whose star began to shine on stage in 1998 when she played Yitzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Shor’s impressive resume covers stage (The Wild Party, Scarcity), TV (The Americans, The Good Wife) and movies (Bedazzled, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Here, she talks growing up in America and Italy, her early acting aspirations through school, and the successes and failures of being an actress.

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  Michelle Obama - First Lady of Hope

  Elizabeth Lightfoot

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  Michelle Obama played a large and influential role in her husband's campaign, and did the same thing during his presidency. Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines, for the first time, her astonishing career, from her undergraduate years at Princeton, where she majored in African Studies, to her continuing education at Harvard Law School, where she obtained a Juris Doctor degree.

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