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4.6 stars
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SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
 
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes
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3.6 stars
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EXPLORING THE BACK ROADS AND SMALL TOWNS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH.
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"One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and...
Book cover for "Don't let's go to the dogs tonight"
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4.1 stars
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CHILDHOOD IN ZIMBABWE.
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An autobiographical account of Alexandra Fuller's childhood in Zimbabwe. The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia with an alcoholic mother and frequently absent father.
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THE AUTHOR, A NATIVE AMERICAN, JOINS THE PEACE CORPS AND TRAVELS TO BOLIVIA IN THE 1990s.
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"Memoir by Ursula Pike (Karuk) of her time serving with the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Focusing on international travel from a California Indian perspective, the memoir asks what it means to be both colonizer and colonized, and inquires into the challenges of building relationships between Indigenous groups from very different places"--
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MULTIGENERATIONAL MEMOIR THAT WEAVES TOGETHER HISTORY, LEGEND AND MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY IN COLOMBIA.
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
Book cover for "Travels with Charley"
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4.5 stars
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JOHN STEINBECK TRAVELS THE BACK ROADS AND INTERSTATES OF AMERICA IN 1960 WITH HIS DOG, CHARLEY.