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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster...
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I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human

Alexis Devine - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of a woman who learned to take care of herself by learning to talk to her dogWhen Bunny, a fluffy,...
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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Trish O'Kane - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid...
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The Big Hustle: A Boston Street Kid's Story of Addiction and Redemption

Jim Wahlberg - Our Sunday Visitor
Format: Hardcover

When Jim Wahlberg went to prison the second time at 22 years old, he was sentenced to six to nine years for breaking and entering, bargained down from life for home invasion. He had staggered into a Boston cop's apartment, helping himself to the sellable stuff and all the beer in the fridge....
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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Jeffrey Rosen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable...
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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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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old...
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Sleepless: Unleashing the Subversive Power of the Night Self

Annabel Abbs-Streets - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Why women's brains work differently at night - and how we can harness that altered state for greater creativity, insight, and courage.. In the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs-Streets experienced a series of losses: her stepfather, then father, and finally her family's puppy. Unmoored...
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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

McCracken Poston Jr. - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting, this is the fascinating true story - sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking - of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused...
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'...
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