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Life's Work: A Memoir

David Milch - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. Life's Work is a profound memoir from a brilliant mind taking stock as Alzheimer's loosens his hold on his own past."I'm...
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AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker

Prachi Gupta - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: a fighter, a phenom, a changemaker. In 2018, AOC became the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress - and from that moment on, she's continued to inspire millions of women, millennial voters, and progressives. Her commitment to speaking truth to power,...
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Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey - Crown
Format: Hardcover

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud....
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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 Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

Michele Harper - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went...
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Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy

Tessa Dunlop - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

This deeply moving story explores the attractions - and the tensions - that defined the most extraordinary royal marriage of the past seventy-five years.. She was peaches-and-cream innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain's...
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Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Carl Sferrazza Anthony - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual...
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Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

Chris Frantz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of Talking Heads by their drummer and co-founder. At its core is Frantz's romance with bassist Tina Weymouth, with whom he not only formed a life but a second band, Tom Tom Club. One of the most iconic bands of the '70s and '80s, Talking Heads distinguished...
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Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

Jes Baker - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

By the author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls and a heroine of the body image movement, an intimate, gutsy memoir about being a fat womanJes Baker burst onto the body positivity scene when she created her own ads mocking Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against all body types--a...
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Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internetand Why We're Following

Gabrielle Bluestone
Format: Hardcover(Original)

From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age - and why we can't stop falling for them.We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic...
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