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Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir

Hari Ziyad - Little A
Format: Hardcover

One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Ka mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex...
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The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain

Mark Salter - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A deeply personal and candid remembrance of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants, friends, and political advisors. More so than almost anyone outside of McCain's immediate family, Mark Salter had unparalleled access to and served to influence...
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Kat the Dog: The remarkable tale of a rescued Spanish water dog

Alyson Sheldrake - Tadornini Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A captivating and emotional story of survival and second chances.Escaping from a wretched existence on a rundown farm, a young Spanish water dog goes on the quest of a lifetime, in search of a family to love her and a place to call home.Follow Kat the Dog as she tells her heart-warming...
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Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

Tom Chaffin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions -- and two nations....
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The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home

Michael Tubbs - Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
Format: Hardcover

"Don't tell nobody our business," Michael Tubbs's mother often told him growing up. For Michael, that meant a lot of things: don't tell anyone about the day-to-day struggle of being Black and broke in Stockton, CA. Don't tell anyone the pain of having a father...
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The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony

Rick Moody - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage -- an eventful month-by-month account -- in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in MatrimonyAt this story's start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic...
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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

Tania De Rozario - Harper Perennial
Format: Hardcover

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature...
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Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age

ANDREW AMELINCKX - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the "other Space Race" that gave birth to the modern communication age. On April 6, 1965, Georges...
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A LIFE ALTERING SCAR: How family, faith, and laughter helped

June LaRose - AuthorHouse
Format: Paperback

All of us have or will have struggles in our lives that end up causing scars we could never have imagined would happen. I needed to trigger a positive outcome from my possibly fatal larger-than-life injury. I absolutely had to find a way to make sense of it. That is what compelled me to capture...
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Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed

Abi Balingit - Harvest
Format: Hardcover

A sweet baking book of fantastically imaginative remixed Filipino American dessert recipes, plus essays on the Filipino American experience by baker-fundraiser Abi Balingit.. When the pandemic started her lonely work-from-home life in 2020, Abi Balingit channeled all her energy into the one thing...
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