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Breaking Through: My Life in Science

Katalin Karikó - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines, hailed as "an inspiration" by Bill Gates"A riveting testament to resilience and the power of unwavering belief."...
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

Eileen McNamara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping...
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Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement

Tanisha Ford - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball," the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years - a glamorous...
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Good Day Sunshine State: How the Beatles Rocked Florida

Bob Kealing - University Press of Florida
Format: Paperback

The musical and cultural impact of the Fab Four in Florida In 1964, Beatlemania flooded the United States. The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America - and they spent more time in Florida than anywhere else. Good Day Sunshine State...
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Fatherhood media tie-in

Matt Logelin - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kevin Hart and winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Memoir & Autobiography, here is the courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of the author's life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife.Matt...
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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Kendra James - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover


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Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of

Myriam Steinberg - Page Two
Format: Paperback

A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn't wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin the process of conceiving a child without a partner. With her family and friends to support her, she picked a sperm donor and was on her way.But...
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Mike Nichols: A Life

Mark Harris
Format: Hardcover

Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's...
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The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

Samantha Harvey - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose...
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Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

Barbara Weisberg - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother...
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