Memoir

 
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The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family

By Sheryll Cashin
PublicAffairs

"A close and often heartbreaking point of view"
-- Washington Post

 
 
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Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression 

By Brooke Shields
Hyperion; national bestseller; finalist, Books for a Better Life Award

"This brave memoir doesn't shy away from Shields's most difficult moment . . . This tale will bring awareness of a problem that so many mothers have been afraid to discuss."
-- Publishers Weekly

 
 
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The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss

By Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Scribner; named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle; finalist, Books for a Better Life Award

"One of those quietly revolutionary books"
-- Alison Smith, author of Name All the Animals

 
 
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Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy

By Maggie Anderson with Ted Gregory
PublicAffairs

"[A] dynamite subject . . . an effective probe into how African Americans spend so much money that flows so overwhelmingly out of their community."
-- Publishers Weekly