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Inheriting Magic
Inheriting Magic

Jennifer Love Hewitt

When she lost her mother to cancer, everything changed for Jennifer Love Hewitt.In the pages of Inheriting Magic, she recounts her journey, sharing memories, photographs, recipes, and the magic-making ethos of a self-proclaimed “Holiday Junkie.”A heartfelt, candid chronicle...
 
 
Still Life at Eighty
Still Life at Eighty

Abigail Thomas

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, a witty and irreverent look at aging and the writing life, delivered with trademark brevity, humor, and wise wit."The Emily Dickinson of memoirists" (Stephen King) Abigail Thomas shares her thoughts on aging in this irresistibly...
 
 
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Elle Macpherson

A revealing account of Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson’s extraordinary life of celebrity under pressure of relentless perfectionism and trauma of addiction.Elle shares her hard-earned, well-learned insights and understandings, empowering us all to discover our own uniqueness...
 
 
The Impossible Man
The Impossible Man

Patchen Barss

A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus). When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near...
 
 
Didion and Babitz
Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.Could you write what you write...
 
 
The Position of Spoons
The Position of Spoons

Deborah Levy

A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy. Deborah Levy's vital literary voice speaks about many things. On footwear: "It has always been very clear to me that...
 
 
The Black Utopians
The Black Utopians

Aaron Robertson

This program is read by by four-time Audie Award winner, Odyssey Award winner, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award–winning audiobook narrator, Dion Graham.One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia—and...