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The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered
Benjamin Taylor - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. "Taylor's Hue and Cry is a vast offer of thanks and glowing triumph, his masterpiece to date." - Richard... |
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One by One: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the Shadows of Opioid America
Nicholas Bush - Apollo Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick... |
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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
BECKY AIKMAN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, having just outrun the police in a car chase and locked an officer in the trunk of his own car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw... |
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The Stonewall Reader
New York Public Library - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered... |
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
Brian Jay Jones - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. SeussDr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over half a billion... |
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Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
Vanessa McGrady - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomes more than a new daughter into her home.After two years of waiting to adopt - slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair - a miracle finally... |
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter... |
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On Pills and Needles: The Relentless Fight to Save My Son from Opioid Addiction
RICK VAN WARNER - Baker Books
Format: Paperback
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When Rick Van Warner found himself searching abandoned buildings and dangerous streets looking for his missing son, he had no idea that the synthetic, pill-form heroin that had snared his teen was already killing so many. In the years of pain and heartache that followed as he tried to save... |
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Stacking Marbles: a true life
Karen Knowles - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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How does a fourteen-year-old girl, married off just out of the eighth grade, salvage her life? With three children by age seventeen, a grade school education, and little support. Poverty and abuse were constants in her young life, she traveled that road and prevailed. She went from weak... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New... |
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Brave Love: Making Space for You to Be You
Lisa Leonard - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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When Lisa Leonard said her marriage vows, she was determined to be the best wife she could be. When her first son was born with a severe disability, Lisa promised herself she would always be the mother he needed. When she began her jewelry business, Lisa committed to giving it her all.Over... |
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison... |
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Refuge in the Black Deck: The Story of Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers
Nicola Peffers - Caitlin Press Inc.
Format: Paperback
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When Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers boarded the HMCS Winnipeg in 2009, she was embarking on her first deployment with the Canadian Navy. At twenty-six years old, one of the top students in her training class, and one of the few women on the boat, Nicola began her career with a sense of optimism... |
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Karina Longworth - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity... |
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Donna Seaman - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are In many art books, they've been marginalized... |
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fianc suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler,... |
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Licensed to Lie
Sidney Powell - Sidney Powell
Format: Paperback
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This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justices destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch executives who did one business transaction with Enron, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens,... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
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No Happy Endings: A Memoir
Nora McInerny - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking - interviews that are "a gift to be able to listen [to]" (New York Times) - returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life... |
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How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
Eva Hagberg Fisher - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost - and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists,... |
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village - and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.In... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, The Widower's Notebook is a portrait of a marriage, an account of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your spouse, and a story of the enduring power of familial love."This is deeply moving ... beautifully... |
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring... |
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Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir
Amy Thielen - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining - and back again - in search of her culinary roots Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York... |
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Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
Nnedi Okorafor - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths.Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college... |
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Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds.
Cathy Glass - Harper Element
Format: Paperback
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From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past.Tayo arrives at Cathy's with only the clothes he stands... |
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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
STEVE RUSHIN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons... |
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
Carolyn Murnick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended by NPR, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, New York Post, and Bustle A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered... |
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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
Casey Rae - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented - until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs... |
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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
Jayson Greene - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss." --Cheryl StrayedFor readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable... |
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
Loretta Lynn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Nashville version of Just Kids or Girls Like Us,ME & PATSY shares the never-before-told story of the remarkable relationship between legendary country queen Patsy Cline and country music icon Loretta Lynn.Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters... |
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Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo
Philippe Lançon - Europa Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Winner Prix Femina and Prix du Roman NewsParis, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over... |
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High School
Sara Quin - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginningsHigh School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from... |
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The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale
James Atlas - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz.The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
Jeannie Vanasco - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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"It's hard to overstate the importance of this gorgeous, harrowing, heartbreaking book, which tackles sexual violence and its aftermath while also articulating the singular pain of knowing -- or loving, or caring for, or having a history with -- one's rapist. Vanasco is whip-smart... |
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
Megan K. Stack - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award finalist's unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book,... |
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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet,... |
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 My Son Needs... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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Grace Notes: My Recollections
Katey Sagal - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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Gripping, singular, and gorgeously reflective, Grace Notes is a memoir told in essays by beloved actress, Hollywood veteran, and singer/songwriter Katey Sagal - perfect for fans of Mary Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You and Patti Smith's M Train.Popular and award-winning... |
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The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery
Mary Cregan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless, candid memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's... |
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in AmericaFor Damon Young, existing while Black... |
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Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon
Iris Apfel - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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"Iris is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. She has four eyes in front and two eyes behind, and that's why she can see things in a round-about way. She flirts with us just enough to make us fall madly in love with her, as she once did to her beloved husband Carl. In the midst... |
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Alpine Apprentice
Sarah Gorham - The University of Georgia Press
Format: Print book
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Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational... |
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My Young Life
Frederic Tuten - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten recalls his personal and artistic coming-of-age in 1950s New York, a defining period that would set him on the course to becoming a writer.Born in the Bronx to a Sicilian mother and Southern father, Frederic Tuten always dreamed of being an artist.... |
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Two Minus One: A Memoir
Kathryn Taylor - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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Kirkus Best Books of 2018"You can quit waiting for the other shoe to drop: I'm in it for life." Those are the fateful, repeated words that help convince Kathryn Taylor to remarry, retire from her thirty-year profession, sell her home, and relocate in support of her new husband's... |
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Logical Family: A Memoir
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America's finest storytellers." - Neil Gaiman"I fell in love with Maupin's effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family... |
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Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
Susannah Charleson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunionOne in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope... |
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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
Judy Goldman - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads... |
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June Bug Versus Hurricane: Memoir
Erin Chandler - Rabbit House Press
Format: Paperback
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"Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual". So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky... |
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My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
Jennine Capó Crucet - Picador
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an "accidental" American -- an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whitenessIn this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation... |
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Jeffrey Gettleman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times journalist, comes a memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent yet most beautiful places in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past... |
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The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life
Karin Roffman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of an American masterThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that... |
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Kwame Onwuachi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoreeBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most... |
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Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life
Jonathan Gould - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as "(Sittin'... |
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Cats Ive Known: On Love, Loss, and Being Graciously Ignored
Katie Haegele - Microcosm Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A collection of deeply heartfelt, humorous, and insightful stories of cats written by a true wordsmith and raconteur.From deep friendships to brief encounters, this is the story of the cats in Katie Haegeles life, or rather the story of her life in relation to the many cats she meets in Philadelphias... |
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden."... |
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Cara Robertson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology - the trial of Lizzie Borden - based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence.The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history.... |
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The Glass Eye: A memoir
Jeannie Vanasco - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death.A Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers PickA Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of FallAn... |
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Life Detonated
KATHLEEN MURRAY MORAN - Amberjack Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of Kathleen Murray, a young mother whose life was changed on September 11, 1976 when her husband, a NYPD bomb disposal expert, was killed by a terrorist's bomb. It details her journey out of poverty, and her own determination to take care of her two young sons... |
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service
Gary Sinise - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's active... |
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In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family
Fox Butterfield - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.The United States currently holds... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood
Andrew Rannells - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York CityWhen Andrew Rannells arrived... |
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The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator
Joakim Palmkvist - AmazonCrossing
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling true crime story of poisonous family secrets, love gone wrong, and a cold case that refused to stay buried ... In late summer of 2012, millionaire landowner Goran Lundblad went missing from his farm in Sweden. When a search yielded nothing, and all physical evidence had seemingly... |
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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir
Kate Mulgrew - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents.... |
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
WILLIE PARKER - 37 INK
Format: Print book
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In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor... |
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Never Grow Up
Jackie Chan - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world.Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins,... |
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Giles Tremlett - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable... |
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
Kerri K. Greenidge - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes.William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934) , though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American... |
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Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Yuval Taylor - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends -- until they weren't.Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ("The... |
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Dying: A Memoir
CORY TAYLOR - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply affecting meditation on dying and a wise tribute to lifeAt the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience -- the vulnerability... |
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Backstage Pass
Paul Stanley - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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The New York Times best-selling author and front man and rhythm guitarist of Kiss grants fans an all-access backstage pass to his personal life and shows them how to pursue a rock n roll lifestyle of their own, offering hard-won advice from a music legend. In this follow-up to his popular... |
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Jane Crow
Rosalind Rosenberg - Oxford University Press
Format: Illustrated Edition
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Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers... |
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
T Kira Madden - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut."-Lauren GroffOne of the most anticipated books of 2019--Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon, The AV Club, The Advocate,... |
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Two and Two: McSorley's, My Dad, and Me
RAFE BARTHOLOMEW - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply stirring memoir of growing up in New York City's oldest Irish bar. McSorley's Old Ale House has been serving light and dark ale in New York City's East Village since 1854. Although a Supreme Court ruling forced them to allow women inside in the 1970s, many of the bar's... |
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No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
Ani DiFranco - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFrancoIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism,... |
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C Stewart - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature,... |
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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
Gabourey Sidibe - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir - wise, complex, smart, funny - a version of the American experience different from anything we've read Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international... |
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Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook
Stassi Schroeder - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this laugh-out-loud funny guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo's hit reality show Vanderpump Rules, perfect for fans of the relatable and entertaining books by The Betches and Andi Dorfman. Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers... |
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Burned: A True Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't
Edward Humes - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving... |
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
ROGER STEFFENS - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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The definitive oral history of Bob Marley by one of the world's foremost reggae scholars. Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never... |
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa - AmazonCrossing
Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing true story of one man's life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family... |
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For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety
Andy Parker - Apollo Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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A father's account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his beautiful daughter, Alison Parker, on live television, and his heroic fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath. On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award-winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered... |
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If You Love Me
Maureen Cavanagh - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A mother's gripping memoir who suddenly finds herself on the front lines the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles substance abuse. |
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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
Erin Lee Carr - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of addiction and sobriety, work and family. Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility.... |
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Working
Robert A. Caro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in book form, Robert... |
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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
Brooke McAlary - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow..."After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus"Finally, a slow living guide for the imperfect... |
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All the Money in the World
JOHN PEARSON - William Collins
Format: Paperback
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Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams,... |
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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
Jodie Patterson - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the story of a family's history and transformation. As an African American growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1970s, when neighborhoods defined people, Jodie... |
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Abandon Me
Melissa Febos - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense... |
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist... |
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
GREG SESTERO - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestseller - now a major motion picture directed by and starring James Franco! From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a "sharply detailed ... funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors" (The New York Times) : the making of the cult film... |
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Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
Jacob Tobia - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above."When the political reality facing this country seems dark, we need shinier, sparklier... |
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My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
Peter Gethers - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and lovePeter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes.... |
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Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
Karamo Brown - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown - Queer Eye's beloved culture expert - as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need.When Karamo Brown first auditioned... |
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Elissa Altman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich... |
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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician -- or so she thinks.When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When... |
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
Karen Kilgariff - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience. The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the number-one hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains... |
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