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  Off the Road

  Carolyn Cassady

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  This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). 
   
  Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. 
   
  “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times 
   
  “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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  Mercados - Recipes from the...

  David Sterling, Mario Canul

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  In this travelogue/cookbook, the James Beard Award-winning author of Yucatán takes you on a tour of Mexico’s most colorful destinations—its markets.   David Sterling’s passion for Mexican food has attracted followers from around the globe. Just as Yucatán earned him praise for his “meticulously researched knowledge” (Saveur) and for producing “a labor of love that well documents place, people and, yes, food” (Booklist), Mercados now invites readers to learn about local ingredients, meet vendors and cooks, and taste dishes that reflect Mexico’s distinctive regional cuisine.   Serving up more than one hundred recipes, Mercados presents unique versions of Oaxaca’s legendary moles and Michoacan’s carnitas, as well as little-known specialties such as the charcuterie of Chiapas, the wild anise of Pátzcuaro, and the seafood soups of Veracruz. Sumptuous color photographs transport us to the enormous forty-acre, 10,000-merchant Central de Abastos in Oaxaca as well as tiny tianguises in Tabasco. Blending immersive research and passionate appreciation, David Sterling’s final opus is at once a must-have cookbook and a literary feast for the gastronome.  “The 560 thick, glossy pages of [Mercados] are such a riot of color and photography, the first time I picked up the book, I didn’t pause to read a word of it. It took a second pass through David Sterling’s gorgeous travelogue to absorb that it is equally rich in information—not so much a cookbook as a treatise on the food and culture of Mexico as told through its vibrant markets.” –Dallas Morning News  “Reflects a lifetime of traveling to markets throughout Mexico to document the diverse foodways of the country.” –Austin360

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  He Came In With It - A Portrait...

  Miriam Feldman

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  In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations of families enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens permanently off the conventional course.
  
  Like the ten Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning—even cancer and a brain tumor— play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal of artmaking and drugs. With no time for hand-wringing, Miriam advances, convinced she can fix everything, while a devastated Craig retreats to their property in rural Washington State as home becomes a battlefield.
  
  It is while cleaning out a closet that Miriam discovers a cache of drawings and journals written by Nick throughout his spiral into schizophrenia. She begins a solitary forensic journey into the lonely labyrinth of his mind.
  
  This is the story of how mental illness unspools an entire family. As Miriam fights to reclaim her son from the ruthless, invisible enemy, we are given an unflinching view into a world few could imagine. It exposes the shocking shortfalls of our mental-health system, the destructive impact of stigma, shame, and isolation, and, finally, the falsity of the notion of a perfect family. Throughout the book, it is the family’s ability to find humor in the absurdities of this life that saves them.

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  The Queen of Romance -...

  Liz Jones

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  The first biography of the bestselling author and journalist Marguerite JervisDuring the course of her 60-year career, Marguerite Florence Laura Jervis (1886-1964) published 149 books, with 11 novels adapted for film, including The Pleasure Garden (1925), the directorial debut of Alfred Hitchcock. In her heyday, she sold hundreds of thousands of novels; she wrote for newspapers, women's magazines and the silent movie screen; she married one of Wales' most controversial literary figures, Caradoc Evans. She was an actress, a theatrical impresario, and one of the most successful novelists of her time, but now she is largely forgotten. Known variously as Mrs Caradoc Evans, Oliver Sandys, Countess Barcynska and by  many other pseudonyms, who was she really? Liz Jones has dug deep beneath the romanticised tale told in Jervis's own memoir to reveal what made this driven and determined woman and how she became a runaway popular success during the most turbulent years of the 20th centuryThis lively and compelling biography reveals how Marguerite Jervis dealt in both illusion and self-delusion, and deftly unfolds the ways in which this apparently indefatigable novelist and owner of two theatre companies adopted multiple identities and kept reinventing herself, from London's West End to West Wales. Angela V JohnThis eminently readable biography, meticulously researched, of the life and times of a largely forgotten but remarkable woman will now be her fitting epitaph.Lyn Ebenezer

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  Why Be Happy When You Could Be...

  Jeanette Winterson

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  A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue).   One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years”   Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes.  Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking.   Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.

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  Waylon

  Waylon Jennings, Lenny Kaye

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  Waylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but he became Buddy Holly's protege before sinking into drug abuse and 3 failed marriages. His success came when he met his present wife, Jessi Colter.

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