My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids

The first book by a doctor who works with AIDS victims daily offers a revealing look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town as townspeople respond to the disease's presence in inspiring ways.[]

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Moab Is My Washpot

A number one bestseller in Britain Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank funny wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series the American profile of this multitalented writer actor and comedian has grown steadily especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde which earned him a Golden Globe nomination and his supporting role in A Civil Action.
        
Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence in his autobiographical first novel The Liar and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. Sent to boarding school at the age of seven he survived beatings misery love affairs carnal violation expulsion attempted suicide criminal conviction and imprisonment to emerge at the age of eighteen ready to start over in a world in which he had always felt a stranger. One of very few Cambridge University graduates to have been imprisoned prior to his freshman year Fry is a brilliantly idiosyncratic character who continues to attract controversy empathy and real devotion.


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;-) [A memoir...sort of]

[Available in both paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com]

CONTENTS: Rhyme and reason song and dance kiss and tell truth or dare do or die collected thoughts love and marriage grin and bear...a memoir. (Sort of.)


(From the publisher: Francine Saint Marie is the author of the popular series THE SECRET TRILOGY as well as a collection of thematic shorts called GIRL TROUBLE. Her debut novel "The Secret Keeping" was a 2006 LAMBDA Notable Book; a 2007 finalist for the Goldie award in dramatic fiction; a 2007 semi-finalist for the Independent Publishers Award and a 2007 IPPY Award Bronze medalist. THE SECRET TRILOGY was nominated for the 2009 Ferro/Grumley literary prize in fiction. You can find all these titles in both paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.com.)[]

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Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

Everyone wants to escape their boring stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a liability.” It was a gutsy move especially for a tall white gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move to “a tiny overcrowded island heaving with clever sensibly proportioned people that make him look fat?” In Tokyo Tim became a “gaijin” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it. []

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Lunch With Miss Hepburn: The Last Interview

In this candid interview the last one granted by the great movie actress before her death critically acclaimed journalist and author Simon Worrall talks to Katharine Hepburn at her home in New York's Turtle Bay about her love of New England her dislike of Hollywood her childhood and parents; and her love affair with Spencer Tracy. Funny tender and moving this revealing portrait of Hollywood's greatest actress is a " Must Read " for all Hepburn fans young and old.[]

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