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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

Elaine Welteroth - Viking
Format: Hardcover

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering...
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Nobu: A Memoir

Nobuyuki Matsuhisa - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and unique memoir by the acclaimed celebrity chef and international restaurateur, Nobu, as he divulges both his dramatic life story and reflects on the philosophy and passion that has made him one of the world's most widely respected Japanese fusion culinary artists.Nobu needs...
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Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

William D. Cohan - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate, New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan. In his masterful pieces for Vanity Fair and in his bestselling books,...
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

Moriz Scheyer - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist....
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This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

Cecily Strong
Format: Large Print

Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing...
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir

ZACK MCDERMOTT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot....
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The Last Days of John Lennon

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles'...
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Unwifeable: A Memoir

Mandy Stadtmiller - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor...
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties

JAMES F SIMON - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book

The epic 1950s battle that would shape the legal future of the civil rights movement is chronicled here for the first time. The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist...
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With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice

Dorothy Marcic - Citadel
Format: Paperback

"A rapid-fire, real-life thriller." - New York Times bestselling author M. William Phelps The lovely widow had confessed to the coldblooded murder of her husband. But Dorothy Marcic suspected a more sinister tale at the heart of her beloved uncle's violent death. The brutal...
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