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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
Mo Rocca · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights,... |
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A Warning
Anonymous · Twelve
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital. |
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What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation
Lemay, Mimi · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand... |
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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar
Steve Murphy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt... |
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Little Weirds
Jenny Slate · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Step into Jenny Slate's wild, unfiltered imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling) , "delicious" (Amy Sedaris) , and "poignant" (John Mulaney) collection about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful"... |
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Clinton, Catherine · Back Bay Books
Pages: 8
Format: Paperback
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Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry slave uprising,... |
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
Paula Gunn Allen · HarperOne
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often... |
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Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
Ben Crump · Amistad
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Genocide - the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.In Open Season, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. While some deaths make headlines,... |
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Another Day In The Life
Starr, Ringo · Genesis Publications
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." - Ringo Starr "Ringo's... |
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