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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle.... |
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
Megan K. Stack · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award finalist's unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book,... |
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The Light Years: A Memoir
Chris Rush · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American historyChris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving... |
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Funny Man: Mel Brooks
Patrick McGilligan · Harper
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred... |
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Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks
Ron Rapoport · Hachette Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive and revealing biography of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks, one of America's most iconic, beloved, and misunderstood baseball players, by acclaimed journalist Ron Rapoport.Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team shortstop, played in fourteen All-Star... |
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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during... |
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Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table
Boris Fishman · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing... |
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The Women's Suffrage Movement
Sally Roesch Wagner · Penguin Classics
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
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An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria SteinemComprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage... |
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
T Kira Madden · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut."-Lauren GroffOne of the most anticipated books of 2019--Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon, The AV Club, The Advocate, The Rumpus, The Week,... |
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