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After All ...: A Memoir

Maria de Lourdes Trautman Mrs.
Format: Paperback

She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive peace?Portugal. As a baby, Maria Trautman was abandoned at birth by her mother and was raised by her adoring grandmother. But when her grandmother passed away, the distressed child was sent...
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

David J. Dennis Jr.
Format: Hardcover

"The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation that is as ingenious as it is soulfully sincere. Stunning."...
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Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood

Gavin Edwards
Format: Hardcover

Bad Motherfucker explains why Jackson's embodiment of cool is not just inspirational, it's important. It lays out how that attitude interacts with his identity as an African-American man, why being cool matters in the modern world, and how it applies to the current social and cultural...
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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family

Madhushree Ghosh - ?University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look...
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Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens in Delphi, Indiana - and its lasting impact on the communityOn February 13, 2017, two teenage girls - 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old...
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Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage

Eleanor Henderson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store -- older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichs of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college and culminated in a marriage...
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Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

Zibby Owens - ?Little A
Format: Paperback

A deeply personal memoir about one woman's journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books™.Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy,...
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Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir

Sharon Gless - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Anyone who has seen Sharon Gless act in Cagney and Lacey, Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, and countless other shows and movies, knows that she's someone who gives every role her all. She holds nothing back in Apparently There Were Complaints, a hilarious, deeply personal memoir that spills...
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The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives

McKenzie Funk - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of.The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man -- as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing...
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