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I Am the Storm: Inspiring Stories of People Who Fight Against Overwhelming Odds

Janice Dean - HarperCollins
Format: book

After her acclaimed memoir, Always Sunny, Janice Dean figured she was done trying to survive or bring down awful men. Then she found herself taking on Governor Andrew Cuomo on social media and then at rallies. What at first seemed like a futile fight ended with Cuomo’s historic resignation....
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Amity Shlaes

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Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Janet Malcolm - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life...
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Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, candid memoir about learning to live with - rather than "overcome" - a stutter.In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden's decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral,...
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Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban

Chad Robichaux - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

It was the right thing to do. And someone had to do it.Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during Chad's eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend. More than once, Aziz saved Chad's life. And then he needed Chad...
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple,...
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Chasing Catastrophe: My 35 Years Covering Wars, Hurricanes, Terror Attacks, and Other Breaking News

Rick Leventhal - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's covered in his thirty-five years as a news reporter, anchor,...
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Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes

Stephen A. Smith - Gallery/13A
Format: Hardcover

America's most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this surprisingly personal book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN, and who he really is when the cameras are off.....
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