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  • I Left It on the Mountain

    A Memoir

    by Kevin Sessums ...
    A New York Times bestseller from an author sharing the darkest moments of his life—and how he found the light again—in this honest and vulnerable memoir.On his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights: Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Mississippi Sissy

    by Kevin Sessums ...
    "A book I've been waiting for most of my life . . . by a writer who is equally at home with Flannery O'Connor and Jacqueline Susann." —Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorMississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.As he ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Mississippi Sissy

    by Kevin Sessums ...
    Narrated by Kevin Sessums ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 12 min

    Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy

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    Priscilla

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    Stonewall

    The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

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    America's Boy

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    Welcome to Braggsville

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, MEN’S JOURNAL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, KANSAS CITY STAR, BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, NPR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE DAILY BEAST, AND BUZZFEEDWINNER OF THE 2015 ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCELONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN... ... Read more

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    Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship.It is the early 1960s, and ... Read more

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    by Edward Bunker ...
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    The basis for the film Straight Time, this compelling novel, first published in 1973 and written by a man who had spent most of his life in prison, is the story of an ex-con’s attempt to negotiate the straight world-and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. ... Read more

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