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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Beyond the Surface: A Gold Medalist's Guide to Finding and Loving Yourself
Jessica Long - Sounds True
Format: Hardcover
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Inspirational speaker and Paralympic champion Jessica Long shares her story -- and powerful principles to help you find your own path to unconditional self-acceptance.. Jessica Long is one of the most compelling figures of our time. From having her lower legs amputated as a toddler, she has gone... |
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Citizen: My Life After the White House
Bill Clinton - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics - eight of them as president of the United States - Bill Clinton was suddenly... |
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Richard Munson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Roman Year: A Memoir
André Aciman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.. In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though... |
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Cher: The Memoir: Part One of a Two-Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor
Cher - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only... |
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Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds
Tom Seeman - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, Animals I Want To See explores themes of identity, ambition, religion, and friendship - often across racial and social lines - as it spotlights a family of fourteen and tracks a boy's journey from a child janitor with... |
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My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents
Jennifer Neal - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call home. I've never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered... |
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Our South: Black Food Through My Lens
Ashleigh Shanti - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Raised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we've come to believe. While hot buttered cast-iron-pan cornbread and crunchy, juicy, lard-fried chicken have their roles to play, they are far from... |
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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