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From Under the Truck: A Memoir

Josh Brolin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable.Weaving a latticework of different strands, moving back and forth through time, Josh Brolin captures a life marked by curiosity, pain, devotion, kindness, humor. He recounts...
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns...
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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative

Keke Palmer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning, multi-hyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.. Right when it seemed like all the pieces were coming together and Keke was living her dream life, her world got derailed. She had put in the hard...
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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

Inc National Public Radio - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music - from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton - featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.Turning...
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Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Rita Omokha - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

This program features multicast narration.The story of young Black activists at the helm of fighting injustice over the last century, from the 1920s to the Trayvon generation, and how they transformed America and left an indelible mark on history.Growing up as a Nigerian immigrant in the South...
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

Richard Munson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country.Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants....
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

Raja Shehadeh - Other Press
Format: Paperback

Finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize An NPR Best Book of the Year. A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer,...
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir

Youngmi Mayer - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with "raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you," interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents'...
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Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac

Mark Blake - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac - the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures - Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story.. Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking...
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Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . "Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny's trademark wry humor and idealism....a gutting personal...
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