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Year of the Monkey

Patti Smith - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore,...
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs
Format: Hardcover

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, who were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced...
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York's City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation

Brad Ricca - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Recipient of the Kirkus Star, Awarded to Books of Exceptional MeritA 2017 True Crime Book for Summer, The New York Times Sunday Book Review"An express train of a story." -Kirkus Reviews"Heroic...her inspiring story demands a hearing."...
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Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God's Joy

Mandisa - K-LOVE Books
Format: Hardcover

Grammy award-winning music artist Mandisa tells an inspiring story of peaks and valleys, trials and joys, wins and losses. Through her gripping narrative, she shows that our choice to trust God can not only overcome our need to understand why bad things happen, but can help us to embrace...
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Another Day In The Life

Ringo Starr - Genesis Publications
Format: Hardcover

"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." - Ringo Starr "Ringo's...
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Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious BIG Murder Investigation

Randall Sullivan - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"[An] engrossing, damning tale of widespread unchecked corruption in one of the nation's largest police departments, one that deserves attention . . . Exhaustively researched . . . The most thorough examination of these much-publicized events." -- Boston Globe, on LAbyrinthIn...
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Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters

Nick Soulsby - Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

Cobain on Cobain places the reader at the key moments of Kurt Cobain's roller-coaster career, telling the tale of Nirvana entirely through his words and those of his bandmates. Each interview is another knot in a thread running from just after the recording of their first album, Bleach,...
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

Ai Weiwei - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Hailed as "the most important artist working today" by the Financial Times and as "an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last 100 years while...
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War Story: A Memoir

Steven Elliott - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Every soldier has a war story.Steven Elliott's opens with the death of American hero Pat Tillman by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan -- when Army Ranger Elliott pulled the trigger, believing he and his fellow soldiers were firing on the enemy.Tormented by remorse and PTSD in the aftermath...
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Set the Night on Fire: A Book

Robby Krieger - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover


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