Category Archives: Memoir

Review: Huck by Janet Elder

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Broadway; Reprint edition (October 4, 2011) ISBN-10: 0767931351 Source: Publisher Michael was a preschooler when the pleas for a  dog began.  He went as far as creating a PowerPoint presentation covering the reasons why he needed a dog.  Despite … Continue reading →

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Review: Cocktail Hour Under The Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover:256 pages Publisher:Penguin Press HC, The (August 23, 2011) ISBN-10: 1594202990 Source: Publisher In the sequel to Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which Fuller’s family refers to as “the Awful Book”, the author once again returns to … Continue reading →

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Review: Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: William Morrow (January 25, 2011) ISBN-10: 0061930059 Source: Publisher For ten years, from 1996-2006, Nepal suffered through a horrendous civil war. Young children were taken from their parents and forced to serve the Maoist rebels.  Child … Continue reading →

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Review: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (January 20, 2011) ISBN-10: 0399157204 Source: Publisher At Fort Hood, TX dozens of women are awaiting the safe return of their husbands from war.  They form a close-knit community, linked together by the … Continue reading →

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Review: After the Falls by Catherine Gildiner

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Viking Adult (October 28, 2010) ISBN-10: 0670022055 Source: Publisher At the age of twelve, Cathy & her family are uprooted from their Niagara Falls home and move to the suburbs of Buffalo, NY.  Her father states … Continue reading →

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Review: Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night by Gary Jansen

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Tarcher (September 16, 2010) ISBN-10: 1585428191 Source: Book Blogger Donation   Gary Jansen grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, never believing in ghosts.  His mother always claimed their family home was haunted but Jansen never found … Continue reading →

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Review: Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Ecco (June 22, 2010) ISBN-10: 0061626651 Source: Publisher Jessica Stern has been studying the causes of violence for the past two decades. She often wondered why she could study such a horrid subject without being affected … Continue reading →

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Review: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Jenn

Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 edition (June 1, 2010) ISBN-10: 0061351636 Source: Publisher Neil White was convicted of  fraud for kiting checks and ordered to serve one year in a federal prison.  However, he wasn’t sent to your … Continue reading →

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Review: A Gift from Brittany by Marjorie Price

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Jenn

    Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Gotham; Reprint edition (March 3, 2009) ISBN-10: 1592404340 Source: Author Marjorie (Midge) Price always dreamed of painting in Paris.  In 1960 she did something that no twenty-eight year old woman should do: she bought … Continue reading →

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