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Pearls of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice

Barbara Bush - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

The best advice First Lady Barbara Bush offered her family, staff, and close friends.
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Freedom: My Book of Firsts

Jaycee Lee Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old,...
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

Sarah Weinman - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." - David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonVladimir...
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

MARK DERY - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But...
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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Yusef Salaam
Format: Hardcover

They didn't know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained...
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PDMost of us have never heard...
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet

JULIE DOBROW - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the extraordinary mother and daughter who brought Emily Dickinson's genius to light.Despite Emily Dickinson's world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication -- Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham...
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To Me, He Was Just Dad: Stories of Growing Up with Famous Fathers

Stein, Joshua David - ARTISAN

My Father the Chef. My Father the Cult Leader. My Father the Duke. My Father the Rock Star. These men (Jacques P pin, Saul Newton, John Wayne, and, respectively) are among the famous--and infamous--fathers featured in To Me, He Was Just Dad . . ., a collection of first-person essays...
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This Body I Wore: A Memoir

Diana Goetsch - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her."A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity." -- Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and Good BoyLong before Laverne Cox appeared...
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The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found

Frank Bruni - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood...
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