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Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field

Deion Sanders - Gallery/13A
Format: Hardcover

Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time - on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required...
 
 
The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir

Susan Lieu - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam...
 
 
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." - Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. "An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read."...
 
 
Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

Deborah Jowitt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.. Between 1926 and 1991, the year of her death, Martha Graham choreographed close to one hundred masterpieces. She changed how dancers were perceived onstage, devised new ways of moving, and pioneered a revolutionary...
 
 
Touching the Art

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - Soft Skull
Format: Hardcover

A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winner. A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein...
 
 
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Jeffrey Rosen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable...
 
 
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...
 
 
The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

Amani Ballour - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria. Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved...
 
 
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,...
 
 
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Anna Shechtman - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable...