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  After Henry - Essays

  Joan Didion

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  Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West. In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC; California; and New York, the acclaimed author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album “capture[s] the mood of America” and confirms her reputation as one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers (The New York Times).   Whether dissecting the 1988 presidential campaign, exploring the commercialization of a Hollywood murder, or reporting on the “sideshows” of foreign wars, Joan Didion proves that she is one of the premier essayists of the twentieth century, “an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review). Highlights include “In the Realm of the Fisher King,” a portrait of the White House under the stewardship of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, two “actors on location;” and “Girl of the Golden West,” a meditation on the Patty Hearst case that draws an unexpected and insightful parallel between the kidnapped heiress and the emigrants who settled California. “Sentimental Journeys” is a deeply felt study of New York media coverage of the brutal rape of a white investment banker in Central Park, a notorious crime that exposed the city’s racial and class fault lines.   Dedicated to Henry Robbins, Didion’s friend and editor from 1966 until his death in 1979, After Henry is an indispensable collection of “superior reporting and criticism” from a writer on whom we have relied for more than fifty years “to get the story straight” (Los Angeles Times).    

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  Poetic License - A Memoir

  Gretchen Cherington

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  At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth—even the unbearable truth that her generous and kind father had sexually violated her?
  
  
  
  In this powerful memoir, aided by her father’s extensive archives at Dartmouth College and interviews with some of her father’s best friends, Cherington candidly and courageously retraces her past to make sense of her father and herself. From the women’s movement of the ’60s and the back-to-the-land movement of the ’70s to Cherington’s consulting work through three decades with powerful executives to her eventual decision to speak publicly in the formative months of #MeToo, Poetic License is one woman’s story of speaking truth in a world where, too often, men still call the shots.

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  Swimming with Seals

  Victoria Whitworth

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  Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. 
   
  This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss. 
   
  It is also a treasure chest of history and myth, local folklore and archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish and Viking men and women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land and sea.

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  Patient H69 - The Story of My...

  Vanessa Potter

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  Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your fingertips are turning numb, and, as the world closes in around you, you realise there is nothing you can do to stop it. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. 
   
  In the space of 72 hours, Vanessa went from juggling a high-flying career as a producer and caring for her two small children to being completely blind, unable to walk, and with her sense of touch completely gone. 
   
  Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly began to recover. Opening her eyes onto a black-and-white world with mutating shapes and colours that crackled and fizzled, she encountered a visual landscape that was completely unrecognisable. As colour reappeared, Vanessa experienced a range of bizarre phenomena as her confused brain tried to make sense of the world around her, and she found herself touching and talking to inanimate objects in order to stimulate her vision – all part of her brain's mechanism for coping with the trauma of sensory loss.  
   
  Going blind led Vanessa to turn science sleuth, reinventing herself as Patient H69 to uncover the reality behind her unique condition. With the help of a team of psychologists and neuroscientists, we follow her story as she learns the science of herself, making discoveries that will positively change the course of her life. 
   
  Vanessa's account is raw and candid, but ultimately upbeat. It shows how this remarkable woman opened doors by transforming her terrifying experience into an inspirational and scientifically fascinating endeavour.

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  Finding Diamonds in Dungeons - A...

  Sohma Rae Hathaway

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  Have you been to that hell where weeping wasn't enough?  
   Where the harshest words can't describe your suffering? Where can hope be found? This inspiring story shows how strong the human spirit can be! An epic memoir of resilience, forgiveness, and God's miraculous love that will tug at your heartstrings, uplift the soul and strengthen your resolve to overcome even the darkest of trials. 
  "Sohma Rae has chosen to record the 'bad' so that it can be used for good. Read this only if you want to successfully end the negative belief systems of generations and come out a better human. This is an inspiring and personal book that will leave you changed!"-Jeff Brown, Keynote Speaker and host of the Read to Lead PodcastFinding Diamonds in Dungeons can help you:Redefine failureRemove self-destructive patternsReplace victimhood with gratitudeRestore faith in GodReveal a powerful truth about pain Sohma felt trapped, married to a narcissist, and marred by her broken past. She needed change but battling long-standing, pervasive patterns ingrained since childhood would prove challenging. In a wake of deception and greed, she was left homeless and penniless, yet this would become the turning point of her transformation. 
  Her dysfunctional upbringing was fueled by an abusive, alcoholic stepfather and a mother battling her own demons with drugs. Sohma and her little sister learned to mimic their mother's codependent tendencies, while their brothers acquired the chemical addictions prevalent in the home.  Just after turning 17, Sohma and her little sister were told to find another place to live. Resentment and heartache reigned. Devastating ramifications would spread like wildfire to all involved.As an adult, Sohma gravitated to similar unhealthy relationships. She also faced mounting hardships like death of loved ones, crippling physical pain, her own cancer diagnosis, and much more. But each time, she got back on her feet.Sohma came to understand that far from being avoidable and pointless, pain has a guiding and even inspiring purpose. Thus armed, Sohma was able to choose a better path-and now helps others experience similar breakthroughs. 
   This book helps the downhearted who may have suffered loss or abuse from addictions, codependency and/or narcissistic behavior. It's the perfect read for those who desire a greater connection with God. And it's an inspirational story for those who seek perspective and gratitude for the blessings they have, for the diamonds around and within them.

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  Life Does Not Come with...

  Germaine Allen

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  I prayed for help to just maintain, to keep my children out of harms way and to let us be happy with all the good things we had. I loved Ken, yet there was always a spot in my mind that said be cautious.
  
  At the age of eighteen, author Germaine L. Allen married a sailor in the U.S. Navy. She wrestles with the loneliness and despair of having a husband at sea for months at a time. But within a few short years of their marriage, Allen's husband died in Vietnam, leaving her to raise their three children entirely on her own.
  
  Allen faces a host of tragedies in the coming years, including the pain of divorce, the death of her fianc, and the struggle to hold on to her possessions. But in the midst of it all, she realizes that there is a purpose to the ups and downs of life and a grand design for each of us.
  
  With perseverance and courage, she keeps her life together and emerges from every tragedy with a deeper appreciation of life. It is through her faith in God, combined with the wisdom to trust His will and the courage to forgive, that Allen discovers the path to inner peace and learns that Life Does Not Come With Guarantees.

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