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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

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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Life's Too Short: A Memoir

Darius Rucker - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award-winning, Diamond-selling lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish and Country music sensation - told through the remarkable stories of the music that coursed through his life."If I look back at my life and try to see into...
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Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

Gregory Wallance - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most heinous human rights abuses.. In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic...
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And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes...
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Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the Friendship That Changed the World

Anthony McCarten - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, and The Two Popes comes the fascinating account of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's friendship - one of the most impactful relationships in history, and the basis of an upcoming play and film. Few...
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Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America

Luis A. Miranda Jr. - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Essential reading from an expert voice our country needs: Luis Miranda's personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and building community to change our world for the better. A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless...
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How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Lyn Slater - Plume
Format: Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon,"brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental...
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You Never Know: A Memoir

Tom Selleck - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic...
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

Johann Hari - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it - from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies.In...
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Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir (Economist Books)

Genevieve Kingston - S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Format: Hardcover

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY, LIFE-AFFIRMING MEMOIR YOU WILL EVER READ ABOUT THE POWER OF LOVE.. Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts...
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