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Lovely One: A Memoir

Ketanji Brown Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's...
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The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography

Peter Ames Carlin - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation - and reasserted the power of rock and roll. In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance...
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Don't Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Sarah Berman - Steerforth
Format: Paperback

Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. Through the accounts of central NXIVM figures, Berman uncovers...
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

The heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In his now-trademark style, Brian Kilmeade brings alive one of the most pivotal moments in American...
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The Women's Suffrage Movement

Sally Roesch Wagner - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria SteinemComprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage...
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The Erratics: A Memoir

Vicki Laveau-Harvie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"...a searing, brilliantly-written memoir about a destructive and cunning mother; reads like a novel..." --Margaret Atwood via Twitter In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the decline and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and with the care of their...
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Beginning in 1990 on a quest that would consume him for the rest of his life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne...
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A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till

Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. - ?One World
Format: Hardcover

The last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with moving recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for racial reckoning, both then and now.   In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was fourteen...
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Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Al Pacino - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred...
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