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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

RuPaul - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date - a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family,...
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life

Richard Paul Evans - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.. Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul...
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The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

Adam Gamal - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit -- an explosive and unlikely story of service and sacrifice.. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained...
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Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail

Andrea Lani - Bison Books
Format: Paperback

Reading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography. One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hundred miles of wilderness. And one woman, determined to escape the humdrum existence of modern parenting and a toxic work environment and to confront the history of environmental damage wreaked...
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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley...
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American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Katie Rogers - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden - from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. "A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least...
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Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

Harry Dunn - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller. The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one of the most prominent and essential voices regarding the truth of that day, and "a must-read for those care about our nation's future" (Congressman...
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Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

Brian Stelter - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author ofHoax - "[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential" (The New Republic) Fox News - returns with an even more explosive account of the network's blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections.....
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Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and "does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it." This openhearted offering inspires. - Publishers WeeklyMostly...
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The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories

James Herriot - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

James Herriot's timeless, heartwarming, and perceptive stories about animals and people have charmed millions of readers around the world, and millions more have watched the popular PBS series All Creatures Great and Small, which is based on his four books. The Wonderful World of James...
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