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Call Me Anne

Anne Heche · Viva Editions
Format: Paperback

This memoir by Anne Heche is as personal as it gets, offering a peek inside the mind of the late Emmy-award winning actress, director and author of the New York Times bestseller Call Me Crazy.. Call Me Anne is the sequel to Heche's first book, Call Me Crazy. It is a memoir consisting...

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A Drop of Midnight

Diakite, Jason · AMAZON CROSSING
Format: Book

World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakit 's vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family's history--from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakit grew up between worlds--part...

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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

Andrew Scott Cooper · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administrationIn this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth...

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God Promised Me Wings to Fly: Life for Survivors After Suicide

Janet V. Grillo · Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Janet's kindness and obvious caring of others shines through God Promised Me Wings to Fly. This honest, vulnerable, raw and inspiring recounting of her life's journey gives hope to readers no matter what devastating betrayal they are facing or financial adversity they must overcome....
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Mike Duncan · PublicAffairs
Format: Book

Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic.As an idealistic and courageous teenager...

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The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist

Luciana Cimino
Format: Book

Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Luciana Cimino's meticulously researched graphic-novel biography tells Bly's story through Miriam, a fictionalized female student...

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Lawrence of Arabia

Ranulph Fiennes · Pegasus Books
Format: Book

A vivid and illuminating biography of the famed T. E. Lawrence, written by "the world's greatest living explorer," Ranulph Fiennes.. As a young British intelligence officer in Cairo, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revolt,...

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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books

ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal...

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Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

Fredrik Backman · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things...

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Woman of Interest

Tracy ONeill · HarperOne
Format: Book

A National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.In 2020, Tracy O'Neill began to rethink her ideas...

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