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Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

Brooke Shields - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older. Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized,...
 
 
Dion: The Rock and Roll Philosopher

Dion DiMucci - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

Legendary Rock Hall of Fame innovator shares the most lasting influences on his remarkable life - a life that helped shape the last 60 years of rock and roll historyThe book features a prologue by Eric Clapton and a foreword by Paul Simon.Dion DiMucci's journey through rock and roll...
 
 
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel

Loretta J Ross - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.. In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who'd...
 
 
Source Code: My Beginnings

Bill Gates - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age"A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul's early years ... Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known...
 
 
Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation―and Created a Legend

Joe Pappalardo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers -- and their violent adventures in Wild West America.. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three...
 
 
Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021

Angela Merkel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states -- East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the East, rise to the top of the Christian...
 
 
The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop's Crusade in Mormon Country

Ron Stallworth - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the '90s.. Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth finally...
 
 
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary

Nora Berend - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure.. El Cid was perhaps the most famous warrior involved in the indiscriminate fighting - irrespective of religion...
 
 
Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Josephine Baker - Tiny Reparations Books
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir ... Josephine Baker's as enthralling on the page as she was on the stage." - Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Sin in the Second City. Published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the memoir...
 
 
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some

Josh Gad - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt and hilarious collection of essays from the comedian and entertainer known for voicing Olaf in the phenomenon Disney franchise of Frozen, and for his award-winning turn as Elder Cunningham in the Broadway smash hit The Book of Mormon.. For the first and possibly last time, Josh...