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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read ... Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this." - Kiese Laymon,... |
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes... |
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Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
Mary L. Trump PhD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile.. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy... |
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Amanda Jones - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards. "Amanda Jones... |
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Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
Ian O'Connor - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller"A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." - Peter KingFour-time New York Times bestselling sport biographer Ian O'Connor... |
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Earth to Moon: A Memoir
Moon Unit Zappa - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as the "Valley Girl," gaining momentum as an accidental VJ on a new network... |
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The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football's Era of Chaos
Armen Keteyian - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Two of the nation's most respected sports journalists team up for a vital, hard-hitting investigation into the tumultuous state of big-time college football.We are living in the Wild West of college sports. Name, Image and Likeness endorsements, the transfer portal, collectives, conference... |
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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
Anupreeta Das - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates - one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades - and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long,... |
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Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
Anna Marie Tendler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"This bookis so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign." - Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other... |
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Maureen Callahan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse - the family's generations-long... |
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