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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

Lydia Millet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and Literary Hub. This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet's life is deeply threatened.Across...
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Bones Worth Breaking: A Memoir

David Martinez - MCD
Format: Paperback

Bones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them.Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart except for his younger brother, Mike. They stood out in Idaho: mixed-race in a Mormon community...
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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir

Cameron Russell - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry.. Now I measure the distance from model to president. You can see it in pictures. It's...
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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant - Get Lifted Books
Format: Hardcover

In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. . Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant...
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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author's struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.. Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused...
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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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Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

Cait West - Eerdmans
Format: Hardcover

"A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free."Publishers Weekly STARRED Review. A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms. Raised in the Christian...
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures - baseball immortal Pete Rose - and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century....
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I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

Clare Mackintosh - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction debut with this deeply felt memoir of unfathomable loss, and infinite hope. "Grief has run through my life like thread through fabric; at times gossamer-thin and barely there, other times...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home - from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America. "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period."...
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