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Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

Roundtree, Dovey Johnson · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history." - Michelle ObamaIn Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring...
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson · Crown
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz"A bravura performance by one of America's greatest storytellers." - NPRNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED...
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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

Tracy Walder · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs"A thrilling tale...Walder's fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America's major intelligence agencies"...
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The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London

D. J. Taylor · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Booker Prize-nominated author of Derby Day delivers a sumptuous cultural history as seen through the lives of four enigmatic women.Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia...
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Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker

Barry Sonnenfeld · Hachette Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir traces his idiosyncratic upbringing in New York City, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams...
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82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle

Art Shaw · WILLIAM MORROW
Format: Hardcover

75 years ago, Art Shaw (1920-2020) was the first American officer ashore Okinawa. It's taken him a lifetime to speak about the 82 days that followed. Colonel Shaw's riveting firsthand account of American heroism delivers an unprecedented soldier's-eye view of the Pacific...
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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

R. Eric Thomas · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way."Pop culture-obsessed, Sedaris-level...
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We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

Linda Sarsour · 37 Ink
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women's March, shares how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country. On a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn, nineteen-year-old...
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Celia Stahr · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today"[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr's engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both...
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I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know

Warren M.D., W. Lee · WaterBrook
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

This gripping inspirational memoir grapples with the tension between faith and science--and between death and hope--as a seasoned neurosurgeon faces insurmountable odds and grief both in the office and at home.Dr. W. Lee Warren, a practicing brain surgeon, assumed he knew most outcomes...
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