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Everybody's fine

Movie Frank's wife has passed less than a year ago and he isn't doing as well as he'd like everyone to believe.  When his four grown children cancel on a planned weekend visit, he decides to surprise...

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The trip

Movie Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are both comedic actors and play fictionalized versions of themselves in this midlife agnst comedy.  When Steve's girlfriend leaves him, he is left scrambling to find...

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Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman Music There have been others, but Tracy Chapman's self-titled album released in 1988 is still my favorite.  The song "Baby Can IHold You" was subsequently covered by several musicians...

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The guard

Movie Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle team up to fight drug smugglers in another police corruption film set in Ireland.  Everyone has a quirk and personal issues that impact the storyline including...

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The Ghost Writer

Movie Try to set aside everything you know about Roman Polanski's legal troubles and enjoy this first-rate thriller.  Ewan McGregor is perfect as the innocent who accepts a "too good to be true"...

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Fun home : a family tragicomic

Alison Bechdel Book You don't need to be a fan of Bechdel's comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, to appreciate her first graphic novel examining her relationship with her father who committed suicide....

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Finlater : a novel

Shawn Stewart Ruff Book A coming of age story narrated by Cliffy Douglas and set in 1970s Cincinnati.  One of my favorite "first novel by a writer"…truly remarkable writing.

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Stealing Buddha's dinner : a memoir

Bich Minh Nguyen Book I like coming-of-age stories and enjoy them even more when you have clashes of both culture and parental units.  Nguyen uses humor to diffuse the pain of growing up Vietnamese in...

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When I was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago Book You will fall in love with Santiago and cheer for her as she challenges her family and herself to fulfill her dreams. 

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Meant to be

Walter Anderson Book Growing up I always looked forward to reading the PARADE section of the paper every Sunday.  When I saw that the editor had written a memoir, I grabbed the book.  Anderson...

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It all changed in an instant : more six-word memoirs by writers famous & obscure

various Book Smith Magazine asked readers of its online magazine if they could tell the stories of their lives in six words.  Like the human condition, they are sad, funny, and truthful.  One of my...

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Flapper : a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made...

Joshua Zeitz Book Sometimes I think goth, punk, and the retro styles now seen are variations on the flapper rebellion of the 1920s.  Zeitz manages to bring scholarship to the topic without making the...

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Havanas in Camelot : personal essays

William Styron Book Initially I picked this book up because I love cigars. Upon reading, I was surprised it was a collection of personal essays, remembrances, of a very well lived life.  I wish Stryon...

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Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her

Melanie Rehak Book If you want to stay blissfully ignorant about Nancy Drew being a real person, put this book down! 

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Yarn : remembering the way home

Kyoko Mori Book You don't have to like knitting to understand that Mori is using words like yarn to tell the true story of her life that has unraveled and how she knits it back together again.

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Grayson

Lynne Cox Book The writer describes her true adventure reuniting the baby whale (Grayson) with his mother in the Pacific ocean.  A whale of a story that makes you feel good!

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Chasing monarchs : migrating with the butterflies of passage

Robert Michael Pyle Book How do you tag a butterfly?  Pyle travels from Canada to Mexico with varying points in between following the migration of monarch butterflies.  I will never look at a...

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Tao of chaos : merging East and West

Katya McCall Walter Book Separately, the I Ching and DNA are fascinating.  A book talking about the similarities, however, is fascinating x 100!  The author makes a compelling argument whether you...

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The lost dinosaurs of Egypt

William E Nothdurft Book What?!  Why have we not heard more about this?  Pictures and everything!  If you think you've read everything there is to read on Egyptology, this will be a surprising read.

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I love it when you talk retro : hoochie coochie, double whammy, drop a dime,...

Ralph Keyes Book You can tell immediately which generation you belong to as you work through this fun history of verbal artifacts.  

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Mean little deaf queer : a memoir

Terry Galloway Book This memoir about Terry's life and her challenges -- deaf (with a little-d) and Queer (with a big-Q) -- will haunt you.  *Spoiler alert:  Don't read the chapter about her father's...

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American nerd : the story of my people

Benjamin Nugent Book All things nerdy and wonderful!  Nugent combines his own personal history with the exploration of nerdiness.  Even if you aren't a nerd, chances are you know someone who is.  

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Becoming a man : half a life story

Paul Monette Book In this 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction, Monette describes his life growing up gay in America asking "Why do they hate us? Why do they fear us? Why do they want us...

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The peep diaries : how we're learning to love watching ourselves and our...

Hal Niedzviecki Book No, not the fluffy sugary peeps you buy once a year but rather the possibly nosey, pervey peep that likes to watch people.  If you like reality TV, peeking into windows while on...

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Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the age of reason

Michel Foucault Book I don't think I would have picked this title up had a customer not recommended it to me. It is a fasicnating exploration of tolerance, treatments, and the language of madness.

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