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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
Parker Posey · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful... |
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Killing It: An Education
Camas Davis · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A wayward young woman abandons her magazine career to learn the old ways of butchery and discover what it means to take life into her own handsCamas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon... |
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13 Days in Ferguson
RON JOHNSON · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile... |
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30 Before 30: How I Made a Mess of My 20s, and You Can Too
MARINA SHIFRIN · Wednesday Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A charming, relatable and hilarious collection of essays documenting a young woman's attempt to accomplish thirty life goals before turning thirty.Something was nagging Marina Shifrin. As a freshly minted adult with student loan payments, a barely hospitable New York apartment, a "real"... |
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History
ALLIE ROWBOTTOM · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor... |
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
John Callahan · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney MaraFeaturing more than 60 of Callahan's original cartoons"When people laugh like hell and then say, 'That's not funny,' you can be pretty sure they're... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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A moving, page-turning chronicle of a husband's loss and the story of a loving, modern marriage"This is deeply moving ... beautifully written and modulated, with a dollop of droll, black humor. It is such an achievement, like running uphill against a strong wind."--Joyce Carol... |
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Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Melissa Stephenson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction... |
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