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Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Finding Me is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey. Deeply personal, brutally honest, and riveting, Finding Me is a timeless...
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Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

PETE HEGSETH - ?Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Early in the 20th century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. One hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early progressives had political control...
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Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

MARY RODGERS GUETTEL - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Kindle Edition

The memoirs of Mary Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just...
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The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

Dana Milbank - Doubleday
Format: Kindle Edition

A scathing history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnistIn 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich...
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with...
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Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey - Crown
Format: Hardcover

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud....
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Through deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become.  They challenge us to shift from focusing on, "What's wrong with you?" or "Why are you behaving that way?," to asking,...
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

DAVID MARANISS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A riveting new biography of America's greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912...
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

Rinker Buck - ?Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, whose last book The Oregon Trail was a triumphant New York Times bestseller, Life on the Mississippi is another epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds an authentic wooden flatboat from the early...
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

JENNETTE MCCURDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother - and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years...
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