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She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Sarah Smarsh - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities - and strengths - of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard...
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My Squirrel Days

ELLIE KEMPER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.There comes a time in every...
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About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son

Peggy Rowe - Forefront Books
Format: Hardcover

Peggy Rowe is at it again - this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike's rise to fame.Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became the backdrop...
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Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much

Faith Salie - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of humorous essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval. Faith Salie has done it all in the name of validation....
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Not My Fathers Son: A Memoir

Alan Cumming - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

Audie Award, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015 Dark, painful memories can be like a cage. Or, in the case of Alan Cumming, they can be packed away in a box, stuck in the attic to be forgotten. Until one day the box explodes and all the memories flood back in horrible detail. Alan Cumming grew...
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The Women of Duck Commander: Surprising Insights from the Women Behind the Beards About What Makes This Family Work

Kay Robertson - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

An Inside Look at the Robertson Women In the pages of this book, you'll find both fun and inspirational stories . . . Kay shares the honest story of her relationship with Phil - and his wild and philandering years - and the challenges of being a teenage mother. Even more amazing,...
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Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life's Changes

Lauren Akins - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love, stay in love, and grow together.When country music star...
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Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life

Drew Barrymore - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

In her first lifestyle book, she'll take you inside her kitchen and her life, featuring thirty-six amazing recipes, from Yuzu Eggs to Brie and Apple Sandwiches to Harissa Spaghetti, which she developed along with chef Pilar Valdes, a personal friend and a regular guest on Drew's...
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Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries

Andy Cohen - Henry Holt
Format: Print book

The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen DiariesThe megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night. Since...
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In Pieces

Sally Field - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother....
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