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"A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this "gripping memoir" (NPR) hailed as "an absolute masterpiece" (Emma Straub) LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • "If there's any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic."&#٬٢٠١٤؛Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago-"one day,...

This memoir introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and...

The great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir.

"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...

The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity. There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to...

"When June Melby was ten years old, her parents decided on a whim to buy the miniature golf course in the small Wisconsin town where they vacationed every summer. Without any business experience or outside employees, the family sets out to open Tom Thumb Miniature Golf to the public. Naturally, there are bumps along the way. In [her memoir], Melby recreates all the squabbling, confusion, and ultimately triumph, of one family's quest to build something...

Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.

From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection yet.

This audiobook is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This audiobook is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating.

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When Holly's family moves from the city to a farm, she longs to get a horse for her birthday. Based on events in the author's childhood.