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Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs

Alonzo Vereen - Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant collection of biographies and illustrated portraits that capture the brilliance of more than thirty American icons, Historically Black is a celebration of Black excellence in fields ranging from politics to STEM, sports to pop culture, and more.From the moment the first HBCU was founded...
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist...
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing

Jacqueline Winspear - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her Kentish childhood and her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing...
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Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship

Willie Nelson - ?Harper Horizon
Format: Hardcover

"I've got this song that begs to be a book and a book that begs to read like a song--a long, romping ballad of sweetness and scandal bridging seven decades of friendship . . ."Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering...
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No Happy Endings: A Memoir

Nora McInerny - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking - interviews that are "a gift to be able to listen [to]" (New York Times) - returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life...
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Dog Flowers: A Memoir

Danielle Geller - One World
Format: Hardcover

After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a withdrawal from alcohol during a period of homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins...
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No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

Ani DiFranco - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFrancoIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism,...
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The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

Kevin Lacz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle. Experience his deployment, from his first mission to his first kill to his eventual successful return to the United States to play himself in the Oscar-nominated...
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Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion

Susannah Charleson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunionOne in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope...
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Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back

Melissa Stephenson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate...
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