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A Termination

Honor Moore - A Public Space Books
Format: Paperback

Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . .In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming...
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Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

April Balascio - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. . One evening in 2009, April...
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Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

Mary L. Trump PhD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile.. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy...
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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative

Keke Palmer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning, multi-hyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.. Right when it seemed like all the pieces were coming together and Keke was living her dream life, her world got derailed. She had put in the hard...
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Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life

Wilbur Ross - Regnery
Format: Hardcover

A USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestseller!. Lessons from A Wall Street Legend Turned Secretary of Commerce. Before being named President Trump's Secretary of Commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross had already earned a reputation as the "King of Bankruptcy" over his 55-year...
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On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)

Colm Toibin - Brandeis University Press
Format: Hardcover

Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling...
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The Night Garden: Of My Mother

Sandra Tyler - Pierian Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

When her 86-year-old mother falls and breaks her hip, Sandra Tyler is 42, with a nursing infant and precocious toddler. Tyler's mother insists on hiring her own caregivers-a motley patchwork of lost souls, including the too-friendly who think Scrabble is a good idea. But when she has a near-fatal...
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Citizen: My Life After the White House

Bill Clinton - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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...
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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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The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography

Peter Ames Carlin - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation - and reasserted the power of rock and roll. In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance...
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