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Indian Creek Chronicles: : A Winter Alone in the Wilderness (Copy)
Buy At AmazonIndian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices. Fun, adventurous, funny, and sensitive read. While this book is now several decades old, it stands up, entertains, and enlightens.
“Honest, lyrical, and full of a kind of an ineffable wonder. Anyone who has ever loved a place truly will surely love this book.”–Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
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Indian Creek Chronicles: : A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
Buy At AmazonIndian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices. Fun, adventurous, funny, and sensitive read. While this book is now several decades old, it stands up, entertains, and enlightens.
“Honest, lyrical, and full of a kind of an ineffable wonder. Anyone who has ever loved a place truly will surely love this book.”–Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greely
Buy At AmazonLucy Grealy’s childhood cancer left her with a facial disfigurement. For everyone who has ever felt inadequate, Autobiography of a Face provides an unsentimental experience that challenges our own feelings of not measuring up. A ground-breaking memoir of self. Lucy Grealy (1963-2002) was an award-winning poet and a memoirist. In addition to Autobiography of a Face, she was the author of the essay collection As Seen on TV: Provocations.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Buy At AmazonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, melds science writing, memoir and journalism, and finds racial exploitation and divides. Skloot uses a first-person exploration to find answers about cells taken and used. These HeLa cells are sold and used around the world. While there is a public good, Skloot and the Lacks family question the profiteering and business model that sells biopsied cells from medical patients. For writers and readers, this compelling story unearths the facts in a novelistic fashion while tracking down clues, explaining science, and revealing a real family who is suffering and filled with mistrust for the scientific community that was never honest with them. Skloot herself becomes a fascinating character as her search for facts and for a way to find answers without adding to the exploitation of the Lacks family drives an important narrative theme.
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The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Buy At AmazonMarry Karr reinvigorated the genre of memoir with her funny, sad, and glaringly honest portrayal of a childhood. Karrâs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salingerâsâa hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as âfunny, lively, and un-put-downableâ (USA Today)Â today as it ever was.
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The Earth is Enough
Buy At AmazonLoss bookends Middleton’s memoir, yet the story of old men connected to an Earth they love embeds in the reader’s love for something we may not know. But we want to. Fall in love with Middleton (now gone): fall in love with the Earth (perilously hanging on).
- Everyone I’ve gifted this book to has called me, sometimes years later when they got around to reading it, to say ‘Wow, this book is great.”
- Middleton’s coming-of-age memoir salutes old men with a reverence for the gifts from the Earth.
