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End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

Meghan Riordan Jarvis - Zibby Books
Format: Hardcover

"A frank chronicle of healing." -- Kirkus ReviewsWhat happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss?Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Meghan expected that this clinical training would...
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American Negra: A Memoir

Natasha S. Alford - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city...
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors - the last documented...
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

Eric Blehm - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration...
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It's Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir

Rex Chapman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction. He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky,...
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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

Paul Alexander - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon. In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander - author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger - gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America's...
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I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free

Tabitha Brown - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life - one day and one challenge at a time.I did a new thing today!Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge...
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

Rachelle Unreich - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter - a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration...
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The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics

Joshua Green - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil's Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.In his classic book Devil's Bargain,...
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Simon Shuster - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky's transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central casting." --New York Times Book Review; Editors' Choice Selection"The...
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