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Thicker than Water: A Memoir
Kerry Washington - ?Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth. While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message... |
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done beforeWerner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point... |
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The Swedish Art of Aging Well: Life Advice from Someone Who Will
Margareta Magnusson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully.Margareta Magnusson shared with the world her practical Swedish tradition of dostdning, or "death cleaning" - clearing... |
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Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America
Michael Eric Dyson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today." -- "To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an activist who cannot rest... |
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Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters
Brenda Jones - Plume
Format: Hardcover
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Maxine Waters is an icon for a generation of women powerbrokers in politics. She is an "unbought and unbossed" acolyte of all the legendary firebrands, like Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Tupac, and Malcolm X. The daughter of a single mom from St. Louis, she's smart, sassy,... |
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Just Add Water: A Surfing Savant's Journey with Asperger's
Clay Marzo - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From the best freestyle surfer in the world, an inspiring and moving memoir about his ascendance to the top of the surfing world while struggling for most of his young life with undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome Clay Marzo has an almost preternatural gift with a surfboard. From his first... |
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Dare to Fly
Martha McSally - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Combining the soulful honesty of Make Your Bed with the inspiring power of You Are a Badass, America's first female combat jet pilot and Arizona Senator Martha McSally shows you how to clear the runway of your life: embrace fear, transform doubt, succeed when you are expected to fail,... |
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My Effin' Life
Geddy Lee - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five... |
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You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir about Wine, Life, and Cookies
TAMERA MOWRY-HOUSLEY - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover
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A lighthearted and supremely entertaining memoir, You Should Sit Down for This is like spending the afternoon sharing tea, fresh baked cookies, and conversation with Tamera Mowry-Housley, the fun-loving, wisdom-sharing girlfriend we all need in our lives (always ready to top off your wine!)... |
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Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth.. Growing up as a Black girl... |
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