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Book Review: My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand's new memoir, My Name is Barbra, is a long 900-plus pages, comprehensive, and fascinating look at one of the most iconic and successful entertainers of all time. Streisand writes about her entire life, from her humble beginnings in Brooklyn to her rise to stardom in music, film, and television. She is candid and honest about her successes and failures, her relationships, and her personal struggles. One of the things that makes this memoir so compelling is Streisand's voice. She writes in a clear and conversational style, and ...

Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment that occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters.