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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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The Yellow House
Broom, Sarah M. · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured.... |
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
Straight, Susan · Catapult
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before. In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert... |
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
Goldberg, Carrie · Plume
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment... |
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Warrior's Creed: A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible
Sparks, Roger · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how a young boy's upbringing with outlaw culture and charismatic role models forged him into an elite Marine and a decorated Pararescueman."Absence of self is my sword" comprises the final line in "The Warrior's Creed," a 14th century poem... |
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist... |
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Altman, Elissa · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich... |
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Richard Zoglin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal... |
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When I Was White: A Memoir
Valentine, Sarah · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always... |
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