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Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss One Tape at Time
By Rob Sheffield
BIOGRAPHY SHEFFIEL
In a memoir of love, loss, and music, a rock and pop culture critic shares the story of his romance and marriage, and his wife's tragic early death, all viewed from the perspective of the mix tapes that the couple had compiled.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
By Dave Eggers
BIOGRAPHY EGGERS
A respected magazine editor and founder, a onetime spokesman for Generation X, offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly traditionshattering memoir that discusses deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more.


Angela’s Ashes
By Frank McCourt
BIOGRAPHY MCCOURT
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.



Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
By Jung Chang
951.05 CHA
A Chinese woman chronicles the struggles of her grandmother, mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present.

John Adams
By David McCullough
BIOGRAPHY ADAMS
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.