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Are You Anybody: A Memoir

Jeffrey Tambor - Crown/Archetype
Format: Print book

It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television....
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir

Beth Nguyen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement.At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America....
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Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite

Dean King - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite - from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir - iconic environmentalist,...
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My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir

AMY SILVERSTEIN - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first...
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Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

Maia Weinstock - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world.As a girl in New York City in the 1940s, Mildred "Millie" Dresselhaus was taught that there were only three career options open to women: secretary, nurse, or teacher....
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Hello, Stranger: My Life on the Autism Spectrum

Barbara Moran - KiCam Projects LLC
Format: Paperback

" ... Insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!" - Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in PicturesBarbara Moran has never known how to be good.As a child, she made strange noises, fidgeted constantly, and licked her lips...
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L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

David Lebovitz - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life....
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And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race

Maria Elena Fernandez - ?Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between,  as told by its stars, producers and fans. Told over the first ten years, And Don't F&%k...
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A Stolen Life: A Memoir

Jaycee Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Jaycee Dugard's New York Times bestselling memoir chronicles her raw and powerful story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake...
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