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Augusten Burroughs, author of Toil & Trouble: A Memoir

For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this family tree was filled with witches. It was a bond that he and his mother shared --- until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that's a whole other story). After that, Augusten was on his own. On his own to navigate the world of this tricky power; on his own to either use or misuse this gift.

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Week of November 16, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of November 16th include THE WATER DANCER, National Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates' dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men and children --- the violent and capricious separation of families --- and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved; INSIDE OUT, actress Demi Moore’s bold memoir that lays bare the trials and traumas of her youth in an effort to better understand herself and her damaged family’s history; TOUCHED BY THE SUN, Carly Simon's loving chronicle of the late friendship that she and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis shared --- an intimate, vulnerable and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between these iconic and starkly different American women; and THE BIG LIE by James Grippando, which finds Miami attorney Jack Swyteck fighting for a “faithless elector,” caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent.

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