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Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change
Cady Coleman - Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's few female astronauts reveals the wisdom that helped her overcome the barriers of others' expectations - and learn to work on a team both in close quarters and remotely. In 2010, the day after her fiftieth birthday - and despite having faced feedback for years that... |
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The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
Rob Kenner - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy - before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up.In... |
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Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
Shane McCrae - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black,... |
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
Sue Roe - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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'Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed' The TimesDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle... |
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Pretty: A Memoir
KB Brookins - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective - the tropes, the presumptions - Pretty is as much... |
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter... |
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Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
Albert Samaha - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace.... |
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