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Madeleine Albright on Moral Complexity

March 10, 2013
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Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter is an exploration of the moral complexities faced by her parents and their generation during WWII. That literary structure—which puts the personal within an historical context and demonstrates how each influences the other—makes the book a fascinating read.

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Anne Lamott and the Secret to Life

December 14, 2012
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Anne Lamott has been through a lot—alcohol and drug abuse, financial problems, serious family illnesses, and the challenges of single parenthood—and come out on the other side, sober and spiritually alive. Speaking at St. Andrew church in Marin City, she shared what she’s learned, including the secret to life.

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Barbara Kingsolver on the Power of Literature

November 27, 2012
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In Flight Behavior Kingsolver does, once again, what she does best. She looks at an issue from multiple points of view, empathizing with characters who disagree with each other, turning a question over and over…

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Literary Cookbook

May 9, 2012
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Love Elizabeth Gilbert? Read on to discover the recipe you can prepare using a piece of Daddy’s discarded shirt, the old-fashioned secret to making orange marmalade, and what Gilbert is working on now.

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What Eve Ensler Knows

March 27, 2012
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Eve Ensler changed my life. She did it in fifteen minutes, from halfway around the world …

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Roz Savage Breaks Another World Record

November 29, 2011
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Adventurer and environmentalist Roz Savage is the first woman to row across three oceans. Even more impressive, she did it solo, in a 23-foot rowboat, without a support vessel. “I have battled twenty-foot waves, sleep deprivation, and self-doubt, but I have never been happier,”  Roz says.

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Caroline Kennedy: She Walks in Beauty

May 13, 2011
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Caroline Kennedy feels like a childhood friend. I grew up seeing her image on TV and in Life magazine articles. She was a White House princess, and, like many of my classmates, I wanted to be her…

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