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LaTonya Yvette - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and inspired collection of essays and real-world advice on style, beauty, and motherhood from the popular blogger LaTonya Yvette LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life's trials, including motherhood, love, death,...
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Reporter: A Memoir

Seymour M Hersh - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East.Seymour...
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Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It

Shauna M. Ahern - Sasquatch Books
Format: Hardcover

For women everywhere, a collection of fierce and often funny personal essays on finding enough, from writer Shauna M. Ahern, of Gluten-Free Girl fame.Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this...
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Unwifeable: A Memoir

Mandy Stadtmiller - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor...
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A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir

Colin Jost - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.Colin Jost has six sets of stitches on his face alone. He's been punched in at least four different sketches on Saturday Night Live, including once by his boss, Lorne...
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate...
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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE

ERIC IDLE - CROWN
Format: Print book

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Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past

Renee Christine Romano - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover

America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton?...
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Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir

C DANIELS - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

The Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America's musical landscape than Charlie Daniels. Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path...
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The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family

Tom Shroder - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

A veteran of the Washington Post and Miami Herald among others, Shroder has made a career of investigative journalism and human-interest stories, from interviewing South American children who claim to have memories of past lives for his book Old Souls, to a former Marine suffering from...
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