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Sally Field · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Audiobook

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.
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The Doggie in the Window How One Beloved Dog Opened My Eyes to the Complicated Story Behind Man's Best Friend


Format: Print book

"Brilliant and unflinching." -- Peter Zheutlin, New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road and Rescued

When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn't think twice about bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and was handed...

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When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People

Jeannie Gaffigan · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In a book that is The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writing partner and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed, the toll it took on her enormous family, and the priceless...
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

KERRI RAWSON · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) , tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long journey of faith and healing.

In 2005,...

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The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir

Apricot Irving · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary's daughter in Haiti during a time of upheaval - both in the country and in her home.

Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti - a country easy to sensationalize...
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Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies

Ian Tattersall · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus...
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The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel

Howard Reich · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago and Florida...
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Translation as Transhumance

Mireille Gansel · The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback

Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything -- including their native languages -- to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of the world. Winner of a French...
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I Found My Tribe: A Memoir

RUTH FITZMAURICE · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air.

Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other...

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I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé

MICHAEL ARCENEAUX · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 256
Format: eBook

In the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can't Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging You, a timely collection of alternately hysterical and soul‑searching essays about what it is like to grow up as a creative, sensitive black man in a world...
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row

Lance Richardson · Crown Archetype
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men's fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film.

From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing...
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Rap Dad: A Story of Family and the Subculture That Shaped a Generation

Juan Vidal · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A timely reflection on identity in America, exploring the intersection of fatherhood, race, and hip-hop culture.

Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: he'd soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the rule - his own dad struggled...
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Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer

Truglio Martin · She Writes Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Antoinette Martin believed herself to be a healthy and sturdy woman -- that is, until she received a Stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis. Cancer is scary enough for the brave, but for a wimp like Martin, it was downright terrifying. Martin had to swallow waves of nausea at the thought of her body...
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

Brian Jay Jones · Dutton
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over...
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home

Megan K. Stack · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A National Book Award finalist's unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book,...
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