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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
EVETTE DIONNE - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender - and toward a brighter future - from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations... |
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Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
Sutton Foster - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Whether she's playing an "age-defying" book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting. From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early... |
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Unmasked
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published to coincide with his seventieth birthday, a memoir by revered, award-winning composer, producer, and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in the history of theater, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita. In Unmasked, internationally acclaimed composer... |
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas Contreras - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the "original, politically daring and passionately written" (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political... |
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Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir
James Tate Hill - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight -- and how he hid it from the world.At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability... |
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Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life's Changes
Lauren Akins - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love, stay in love, and grow together.When country music star... |
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The Art of the Pimp: One Man's Search for Love, Sex, and Money
Dennis Hof - Regan Arts
Format: Print book
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Dennis Hof, proprietor of the world-famous Moonlite BunnyRanch brothel and the P.T. Barnum of prostitution, charts his path to fame and infamy, while dispensing homespun wisdom about sex, sales, money, and how to live as the country's most recognizable pimp.In The Art of the Pimp, Dennis... |
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Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
Lisa Belkin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still... |
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