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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

Maggie Smith - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"[Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new." - Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author The bestselling poet and author of the "powerful" (People) and "luminous"...
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Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety

Laura McKowen - ?Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club comes a modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks that anyone at any stage of sobriety can use. "A masterpiece and anyone attempting...
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Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir)

Jackson Bird
Format: Hardcover


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On Sunset: A Memoir

Kathryn Harrison - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly...
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Saving the Oregon Trail: Ezra Meeker's Last Grand Quest

Dennis M Larsen - Washington State University Press
Format: Paperback

Ezra Meeker first came west on the overland trail in 1852. At age 75 he trekked east over the Oregon Trail with oxen and a covered wagon, setting markers along the way, and became a national celebrity. Never one to shy away from adventure, his other exploits included publishing books, lecture...
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The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

William Dameron - Little A
Format: Hardcover

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out.Do you know me?, the email began, sparking tremors of fear that turned into a full quake of panic when William Dameron discovered that his selfie had been stolen by strangers. On social networks and dating...
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Miracle at Midlife: A Transatlantic Romance

Roni Beth Tower - She Writes Press
Format: Print book

They first meet in Paris in the spring of 1996. David is a divorced American attorney living on a converted barge moored on the banks of the Seine; Roni Beth is an empty-nested clinical and research psychologist working from her home in Connecticut. Now in their fifties, both have signed...
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Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health

Michael Milken - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist...
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

Robert Hardman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth IIon the seventieth anniversary of her reignby a renowned royal biographer.Shy but with a steely self-confidence; inscrutable despite ten decades in the public eye; unflappable; devout; indulgent; outwardly reserved, inwardly passionate; unsentimental;...
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Stories to Tell: A Memoir

Richard Marx - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Richard Marx is one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular music. His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him the first male solo artist (and second solo artist overall after Whitney Houston) to have four singles from their debut crack...
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