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I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement

Jessica Zucker
Format: Paperback

Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. She now had a changed perspective on her life's work,...

I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism

Kate Coyne - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

The Executive Editor of People Magazine provides an unfiltered and hilarious look at her life alongside the rich and famous, as she reveals how being a fan-girl lead to celebrity close encounters she could only dream of growing up.From the NY Post's "Page Six" to Good Housekeeping...

Child, Please: How Mama's Old-School Lessons Helped Me Check Myself Before I Wrecked Myself

Ylonda Gault Caviness - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent (and sharing with the world as a parenting expert and journalist) didn't mean scratch compared to her mama's...

Kim Jong-un: The Mysterious and Controversial Life of North Korea's Supreme Leader

Charles River Editors - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing...

Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

Caroline Johnson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, unique insider's view of what it's like to be a woman aviator in today's US Navy -- from pedicures to parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion...

Piet Mondrian: A Life

Hans Janssen - Ridinghouse/Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Format: Hardcover

"Janssen's biography of the Dutch master is riveting and eloquent." -Terence Trouillot, ArtnetPiet Mondrian: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of Piet Mondrian to be published in English. This remarkable book provides a long-overdue and compelling account of the life...

My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole

Will Jawando
Format: Hardcover

"Will Jawando's account of mentorship, service, and healing lays waste to the racist stereotype of the absent Black father. By arguing that Black fathers are not just found in individual families, but are indeed the treasure of entire Black communities, Will makes the case for a bold...

Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow

Deborah Tannen - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell.Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, and praised...

Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

Michelle Tea - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured womanWritten in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking...

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Sarah Polley - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her presentThese are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake...

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