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Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me

Sutanya Dacres - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris...
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Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration

Alexandra Wentworth - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary...
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Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community

Mary Ann Jacobs - Blair
Format: Paperback

A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shoulders is a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work and activism required to keep their...
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Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance

Marsha Aizumi - Magnus Books
Format: Paperback

When this book was first published in 2012, it was the first book of its kind - mother, educator, and LGBT activist Marsha Aizumi shares her compelling story of parenting a young woman who came out as a lesbian, then transitioned to male. Two Spirits, One Heart chronicles Marsha's personal...
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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog

Lynne Cox - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog and super athlete - part of Italy's elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives.Lynne Cox - acclaimed...
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The Community: A Memoir

N Jamiyla Chisholm - Little A
Format: Kindle Edition

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family's indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter coming to terms with a parent's devastating choices, and the trials ahead in post-9/11 New York.In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, Ummi, quit her job, converted...
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Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

Cameron Hanes - ‎St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Push beyond your physical limits to improve yourself by following bowhunter and ultramarathoner Cameron Hanes's lifelong philosophies and disciplines."It's all mental."I say this all the time, and it's true.If you believe you can do it, you can.We all have virtually...
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

Sally Denton - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection "The Colony is one of the most gripping and disturbing true stories I've ever come across." -- Douglas Preston An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico -- an event that drew...
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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Keri Blakinger - ‎St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey -- from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom -- and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle....
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Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir

Colton Haynes - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes.Four years ago, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He'd had two seizures, lost the sight in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary...
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