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Mad Wife: A Memoir

Kate Hamilton - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate's love for her husband . But she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving. In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with...
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We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me

Elliot Mintz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A personal and revealing look at the last ten years of John Lennon's life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best. In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon...
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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

Clara Bingham - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes - from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.. For lovers...
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Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth

Richard Esposito - Crime Ink
Format: Hardcover

"Do not. Confuse me. With. The facts. I tell the truth." -- Jimmy Breslin. The first-ever biography of America's greatest crime reporter In a newspaper career spanning decades, Jimmy Breslin covered the stories that he knew mattered most: the human stories beyond the front...
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Patriot

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family,...
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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Tia Levings - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.". Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list...
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What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)

Stanley Tucci - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year's worth of meals.. "Sharing food is one of the purest human acts." Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci's life: from stracciatella...
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A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

Marian Schembari - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

One woman's decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves. Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she'd spent decades hiding her tics and shutting...
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The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing

Claire Oppert - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.. A celebrated art therapist plays the cello for patients with autism, neurodegenerative disease and terminal illness - and offers a moving reflection on the extraordinary power of music to enrich our lives, all the way to the very...
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Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Al Pacino - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred...
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