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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs
David Philipps · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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By official accounts, the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon returned as heroes after their 2017 deployment to Mosul, following a vicious, bloody, and successful campaign to drive ISIS from the city. But within the platoon a different war raged. Even as Alpha's chief, Eddie Gallagher, was being... |
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Meghan O'Gieblyn · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness--i.e., souls--might... |
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The History of Bones: A Memoir
John Lurie · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie... |
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
Anna Qu · Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their... |
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Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet
James Whiteside · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, joyous, and inspiring memoir-in-essays from the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer-slash-drag queen-slash-pop star who's redefining what it means to be a man in balletThere's a mark on every stage around the world that signifies the center of its depth and width,... |
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I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir
Jan Grue · FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am writing about all that I wanted to have, and how I got it. I am writing about what it cost, and how I was able to afford it. Jan Grue was diagnosed... |
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The Tightening Dark: An American Hostage in Yemen
Sam Farran · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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As air strikes carpeted Yemen's capital, Sam Farran was one of only a few Americans in the war-ravaged country. He was there to conduct security assessments for a variety of international firms. Days after his arrival, he was brutally seized and taken hostage by Houthi rebels. Sam would... |
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This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
Cecily Strong · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing... |
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
Peter L. Bergen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America's long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield... |
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir; Library Edition
Katherine Johnson · Blackstone Pub; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil... |
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