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A Testament to Darkness and Light: And There Was Evening And There Was Morning, a memoir by Mike Smith
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This LitStack Rec is perfect for you to revisit or get to know Cumming’s 2014 memoir “Not My Father’s Son.”
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Give Your Soul and Grit to Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as…
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How Fiction Works, by James Wood. When it comes to books on the craft of…
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also…
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, a rec for #BannedBooksWeek This classic novel, number…
