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A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

8 best books like A Lie About My Father: A Memoir (John Burnside): Ministry of Moral Panic, The Thing Around Your Neck, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Stag's Leap: Poems, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, Stillhet i støyens tid. Gleden ved å stenge verden ute

Ministry of Moral Panic
AuthorAmanda Lee Koe
Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living...
The Thing Around Your Neck
AuthorChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN0307271072
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
AuthorRick Atkinson
ISBN1627790438
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Stag's Leap: Poems
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375712259
Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN0811216721
The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Tranströmer, now available in this comprehensive edition.

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world
as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.

Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of...
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
AuthorRod Dreher
ISBN1941393322
The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems.

Following the death of his little sister and the...
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
AuthorEmily Esfahani Smith
ISBN0553419994
This wise, stirring book argues that the search for meaning can immeasurably deepen our lives and is far more fulfilling than the pursuit of personal happiness.

There is a myth in our culture that the search for meaning is some esoteric pursuit that you have to travel to a distant monastery or...
Stillhet i støyens tid. Gleden ved å stenge verden ute
AuthorErling Kagge
ISBN8248918726
Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion - silence - lies in wait. But what really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important now than ever?

Erling Kagge, the Norwegian adventurer and polymath, once spent 50 days...
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