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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True

GABRIELLE UNION - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,...
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Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

Valerie Bertinelli - HarperCollins and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli’s life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on One Day at a Time...
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Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood

Leonard Maltin - GoodKnight Books
Format: Hardcover

Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50 years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television,...
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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

Patty Lin - Zibby Books
Format: Paperback

The only script you can really write in life is your own.What if achieving your professional dreams comes at too high a personal cost? That's what screenwriter Patty Lin started to ask herself after years in the cutthroat TV industry. One minute she was a tourist, begging her way into...
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Me

Elton John - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend.Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew...
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

Anna Qu - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their...
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Born with Teeth: A Memoir

Kate Mulgrew - Little, Brown and Company,
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences...
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Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Julianna Margulies - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Julianna Margulies now unleashes her sharp talent with a powerful debut memoir chronicling her life and her work, examining from within her journey from chaos to calm."When an actor is on a long running television show, especially when the writing is superb as was the case with The Good...
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Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature

Nadra Nittle - Fortress Press
Format: Paperback

When Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she wore proudly. Morrison was clear that she wrote from a Black, female perspective and for others who shared her identity. But just as much as she was an African...
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Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live

Dan Ahdoot - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule - and sometimes ruin - his relationships, from the Cobra Kai actor, stand-up comic, and host of Food Network's Raid the Fridge. "When most people say they...
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