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|author=Dan Marshall

|title=Home Is Burning: A Memoir

|rating=3

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=Dan Marshall thought he had a perfect life. He lived in Los Angeles, where he worked for a cutting-edge public relations firm and had an attractive girlfriend. Sure, his mother, Debi, had non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but she had been living with it for 14 years and seemed no worse than ever. Cancer was normal for their family; it didn't interfere with Marshall's favourite activity, 'acting like a spoiled white asshole.' When his father, Bob, was diagnosed with ALS, however, it was a different story. All five siblings in this Sedaris-like clan would have to pull together to help Bob cope with the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00Z70VHXM</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Phyll MacDonald-Ross and I D Roberts

|summary=We've all heard the phrase 'it's not brain surgery' but what is it really like to operate on someone's brain in the frightening knowledge that a small slip, a slight error can have the most devastating consequences for the patient, with death probably not being the worst? Henry Marsh is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley/St George's. If anyone knows what it's like then Henry Marsh is the man to tell you.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178022592X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Jennifer Klinec~~

~~|title=The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Autobiography~~

|summary=Jennifer Klinec is the daughter of Hungarian immigrant parents who ran an automotive factory in southwest Ontario. She learned early on to be self-sufficient, even enrolling herself in boarding schools in Switzerland and Dublin. After graduation she moved to London, made a pile as an investment banker, and opened her own cookery school. At age 31, though, she decided to travel to the Iranian city of Yazd to learn Persian dishes. She met Vahid, 25, a military veteran with an engineering background, in a park and he introduced her to his mother for cooking lessons.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088235</amazonuk>~~

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