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by: OHara, Jen.
Determined to matter : a family facing inoperable brain cancer /
Scarletta Press, c2013.
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by: Berg, David,
Run, brother, run : a memoir of a murder in my family /
Scribner, 2013
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View DescriptionThis is a searing family memoir of a wild boyhood in Texas that led to the vicious murder of the authors brother by actor Woody Harrelsons father. In 1968 the authors brother, Alan, was murdered by Charles Harrelson, notorious hit man and father of Woody Harrelson. Alan was only thirty-one when he disappeared and for more than six months his family did not know what had happened to him, until his remains were found in a ditch in Texas. There was an eyewitness to the murder: Harrelsons girlfriend, who agreed to testify. Even so, Harrelson was acquitted with the help of the most famous criminal lawyer in America. Writing with cold-eyed grief and lacerating humor, the author, a trial lawyer himself, shares intimate details about his striving Jewish family that perhaps set Alan on a course for self-destruction, and the wrenching miscarriage of justice when Alan Bergs murderer went unpunished. Since burying his brother, the author has never discussed how he died. But then about three years ago, details from his past crept into his memory and he began to research his familys legacy and his brothers death, informed by his expertise as a seasoned attorney. The result is a raw and painful memoir that taps into the darkest human behaviors, a fascinating portrait of an iconic American place, and a true-crime courtroom murder drama, perfectly calibrated.

by: Dreher, Rod.
The little way of Ruthie Leming : a southern girl, a small town, and the secret of a good life /
Grand Central Pub., c2013.
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View DescriptionAfter witnessing the way in which his hometown of St. Francisville, La. rallied around his ill sister, journalist Rod Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia and move back to St. Francisville, thereby accepting the limitations of small-town life for the privilege of being part of a community.

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