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Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

Ina Garten - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten - aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon - shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table. Here,...
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Question 7

Richard Flanagan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of fiction in our times. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's...
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Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm

DeMar DeRozan - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone.. "DeMar DeRozan's story is one of adaptability, courage, and love. The persistent...
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

Abbott Kahler - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park. At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists...
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! . "It literally changed my outlook on the world ... incredible." - Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel ... The Barn describes not just the poison...
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Elyse Graham - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) , a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly...
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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans - who came together to create the most iconic jazz album...
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes...
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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci M.D. - Viking
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller. The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents. "An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story...
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Frighten the Horses

Oliver Radclyffe - Roxane Gay Books
Format: Hardcover

A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one's life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes. . From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed...
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