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Talking to My Angels

Melissa Etheridge - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life.Live...
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Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

Lee Durkee - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare.. Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell...
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Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

Carl Safina - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity's relationship with the world.When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans...
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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

Henry Winkler - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller! From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole.. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved...
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The Football 100 (Sports)

The Athletic - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From The Athletic, powerhouse of sports reporting, comes the definitive story of the greatest football players of all time.It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for generations: Who's the best? Of the more than 25,000 men who have suited up during the NFL's century of existence,...
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George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle

Philip Norman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the premiere Beatles biographer - author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation - a rare and revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long...
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Magic: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Roland Lazenby - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, from the highly respected, career sportswriter and author of Michael Jordan: The Life.Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy...
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Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

Staci Robinson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legendTupac Shakur is one of the greatest...
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The Woman in Me

Britney Spears - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice - her truth - was undeniable, and it changed the course...
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Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures - including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party - written with his full cooperation by an award-winning...
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