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Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line

Ryan Leigh Dostie · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Anthony Swofford's Jarhead in this powerful literary memoir of a young Army recruit driven to prove herself in a man's world.Raised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian community in New England, Ryan Dostie...

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Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Bianca Bosker · Viking
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey - this time burrowing deep inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists. An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence...

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Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life

Sutton Foster · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

Whether she's playing an "age-defying" book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting. From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early...

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Its All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the Worlds Family Tree

A. J. Jacobs · Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind."....

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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Format: Book

From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses...

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The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey · Andy Cohen Books
Format: Book

It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about...

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The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

Sam Wasson · Harper
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company...

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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

Sam Knight · Penguin Press
Format: Book

"Stunning ... An enveloping, unsettling book, gorgeously written and profound." - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of PainFrom a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, a psychiatrist...

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