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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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Growing Up Urkel

Jaleel White - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

An incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters. At the tender age of twelve, Jaleel White auditioned for the role of Steve Urkel, the socially inept genius, who was in love...
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From Under the Truck: A Memoir

Josh Brolin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable.Weaving a latticework of different strands, moving back and forth through time, Josh Brolin captures a life marked by curiosity, pain, devotion, kindness, humor. He recounts...
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Citizen: My Life After the White House

Bill Clinton - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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 States - Bill Clinton was suddenly...
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Cher: The Memoir: Part One of a Two-Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor

Cher - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only...
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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Jasmin Graham - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature's most misunderstood animal - the shark.. Sharks have been on this planet for over 400 million years, so there...
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns...
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The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

Michael Tackett - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell....
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Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras

Sarah Chapelle - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Dazzling. Incomparable. Unforgettable. The definitive book of Taylor Swift's fashion evolution. This gorgeous hardcover edition has gilded gold edges, foiled cover accents and colored endpapers. For Taylor Swift, fashion and music go hand-in-hand -- each playing a powerful role in shaping...
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Unleashed

Boris Johnson - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Shattering the mold of the traditional political memoir, Unleashed is a candid, unrestrained, and revealing book by Boris Johnson, the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In Unleashed, Johnson takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and why he took...
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