Category: Memoir/Biography

June 13, 2010

An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina *** (of 4)

A painfully clear explanation of the genocide that overtook Rwanda as seen through the eyes of a man who survived and simultaneously saved the lives...

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May 15, 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot *** (of 4)

Cells from Henrietta Lacks’ cancerous cervix were the first to ever be cultured in a lab in perpetuity making the woman they came from in...

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April 30, 2010

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers **** (of 4)

It’s hard to comprehend how anyone survives what Valentino had to in escaping Arab militiamen in southern Sudan and comes away only with excrutiating headaches....

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April 29, 2010