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Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Jaycee Lee Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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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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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
MARK DERY - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
JULIE DOBROW - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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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