You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
by Wole Soyinka
Random House Trade Paperbacks

$16.95
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From the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, You Must Set Forth at Dawn chronicles Soyinka's turbulent life as an adult in his beloved, beleaguered homeland of Nigeria. The Los Angeles Times calls it "powerful and arresting".

Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall
Beacon Press

$24.95
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Hall's memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen and, shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, gives up her baby for adoption. After years of wandering recklessly through the Middle East, Hall returns to New England to stitch together a life, even as she continues to suffer through a taboo and silenced grief. A story of banishment and reconciliation--and of the forgiveness children give their parents.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

$22.00
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Anyone who met Beah at our event in March knows the riveting story he tells: how at the age of twelve he fled attacking rebels in his native Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. Told with a lyrical simplicity, A Long Way Gone will both haunt and move you, demanding that you consider: How does a child become a killer? And how does he stop?

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
by Thomas McNamee
Penguin Press HC, The

$27.95
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In this new authorized biography, McNamme tells the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented what we now think of as American cuisine.

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
by Hugh Brogan
Yale University Press

$35.00
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Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time--and this is a brilliant account of his life. The first full-scale biography of the famous prophet of democracy, this work covers everything from the complexities of nineteenth-century French politics to de Tocqueville's family life.