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August 30, 2007
Biography and Memoir
Not happy with your life? Lose yourself in someone else’s story. New biographies out this month feature world leaders, celebrities and ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances.
Bliss Broyard, the daughter of the late literary critic Anatole Broyard recounts her father’s startling deathbed revelation about his black heritage in One Drop: A True Story of Family, Race, and Secrets.
Ike is the new biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Michael Korda. Korda will be speaking at the Library on November 4th so mark your calendars for this special event.
Of Lattes and Land Rovers: Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler is a hilarious memoir of life at a prestigious prep school. Author Wade Rouse describes his job as director of publicity and the challenging responsibility of keeping the mothers of his elite students happy.
The posthumously discovered diary of a young woman from Vietnam written between 1968 and 1970 is being published by Random House in September. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram is a poignant book that speaks of devotion to family and country, the horrors of war and love of a childhood sweetheart.
Rosie O’Donnell describes how fame became an addition in Celebrity Detox. This is a frank and comical memoir of Rosie’s rise to fame, her decision to leave and then return to a high profile life. Seems she’s still making headlines with her blog.
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography is an intimate self portrait of the Cuban leader who came to power in 1959 and has ruled over Cuba through ten U. S. presidents.
Sudanese-born international supermodel Alek Wek describes her civil-war-torn childhood, her daring escape to London, and her entry into fashion fame at the age of nineteen in Alek: From the Streets of the Sudan to the Runways of Milan and New York.
Those of us who heard Alan Alda speak at Book Expo in June were impressed by his new book, Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself. In this heartfelt memoir, Alda looks back at his life and muses over the paths he chose from the turbulent 1960s through September 11th.
Posted by MaryF at August 30, 2007 06:17 AM