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My Time to Stand: A Memoir

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard shares the painful realities she grew up with and the details of her life that only she knows.A victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's unique and controversial...
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The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic

Mark L. Clifford - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kong's leading activists for democracy and is today China's most famous political prisoner.. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed...
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Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

Matt Rife - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

One part memoir, one part comedy special, one part crazy first date. Just you and Matt between the covers. What could be better?. Matt Rife is well aware that he's both the most loved and the most controversial comic in America today. And honestly, he thinks that's your problem....
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Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

Abigail Thomas - Scribner
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, a witty and irreverent look at aging and the writing life, delivered with trademark brevity, humor, and wise wit.. "The Emily Dickinson of memoirists" (Stephen King) Abigail Thomas shares her thoughts on aging in this...
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That Deserves a Wow: Untold Stories of Legends and Champions, Their Wins and Heartbreaks

Chris Myers - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The Emmy Award-winning FOX Sports broadcaster provides a front row seat to some of the most memorable moments in sports history.Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Chris Myers reflects on his illustrious career as one of the most trusted and renowned journalists in sports. Myers has witnessed...
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First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

Jessica Hoppe - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka. . A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire . In this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account...
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Don't Wait Till You're Dead: Spirits' Advice from the Afterlife

Matt Fraser - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

New York Times bestselling author and America's top psychic, Matt Fraser presents an immersive guide to intentional living and discovering what life is really all about before reaching the pearly gates.. New York Times bestselling author Matt Fraser knows a lot about life ... from...
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Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this "vivid, engrossing" (Vogue) , and outrageously provocative dual biography "that reads like...
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Brothers

Alex van Halen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.Told with...
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The Second Shot: A Green Beret's Last Mission

Gene Yu - Little A
Format: Hardcover

The riveting true story behind an unsanctioned rescue mission in the jungles of the Philippines, engineered by former Green Beret and unlikely American hero Gene Yu.Evelyn Chang and her husband were vacationing in the Philippines when they were ambushed by terrorists. Evelyn's husband...
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