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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson - Crown Currency
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank's one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up - a Liar's Poker for a new generation "An incredibly important and timely...
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls - MCD
Format: Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother,...
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Life: My Story Through History

Pope Francis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history - from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story...
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Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

Jane Marguerite Tippett - Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardcover

A retelling of the story of the Duke of Windsor - King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the woman he loved. Using never before seen sources, Once a King is a fresh, revelatory and gripping insight into the Duke of Windsor - King Edward VIII - who gave up the throne to marry...
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world.. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet...
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The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall

Josiah Bunting III - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) , and a distillation of the essential lessons his formative years offer to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall's accomplishments are well known: after helping to guide the Allies...
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Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

Deborah Jowitt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.. Between 1926 and 1991, the year of her death, Martha Graham choreographed close to one hundred masterpieces. She changed how dancers were perceived onstage, devised new ways of moving, and pioneered a revolutionary...
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And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes...
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The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir

Susan Lieu - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam...
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Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery.. Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed...
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