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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,...
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster...
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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...
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Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Gracie Gold - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental illness, eating disorders, and the self-destructive voice inside that she calls "outofshapeworthlessloser.". When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's...
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Manjula Martin - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record.. A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times,...
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors - the last documented...
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More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Molly Roden Winter - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother's exploration of sex and relationships - outside of her marriage.. "An intimate portrait of a woman on an earnest search to reclaim her passion and her body from the quotidian obligations...
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Art Can Kill

Bryan L Cooke - Art World Publishing, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Art Can Kill offers a window into the lives of celebrity and contemporary art figures, including stories of Larry Gagosian, Larry Flynt, Dr. Armand Hammer, Joan Rivers, Norton Simon, Frank Gehry, and many more.As an art handler who moves million-dollar works for a living, the author is often...
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