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All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

Beth Moore - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few."It's a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know...
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Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love

Michelle Miller - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.Though Michelle...
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Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider

Stacy Spikes - Dafina
Format: Hardcover

At the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-winning entrepreneur and founder of MoviePass, reveals the tools he's used to persevere in the face of adversity, defy stereotypes, and shatter glass ceilings. BLACK FOUNDER is both an empowering memoir of a trailblazing...
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The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

Christopher C. Gorham - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with only a high school education who went on to be dubbed by Life Magazine "the most important woman in the American government." Her life ran parallel to the front lines of history yet her influence...
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Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Camonghne Felix - One World
Format: Hardcover

An epic meditation on loving yourself in the face of heartbreak, from the acclaimed author of Build Yourself a Boat, longlisted for the National Book Award When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything - from her early childhood trauma...
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Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law

Bruce Jackson - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Microsoft's associate general counsel shares the inspirational story of his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra Nooyi's...
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Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Behind Paris Hilton's meteoric rise from Upper West Side club kid to household name lies her self-proclaimed "superpower" of ADHD and a hidden history that traumatized and defined her. Shocking, funny, and surprisingly profound, Paris is the deeply personal memoir of the ultimate...
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The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time

Jim Lindsay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18 -- written with his full cooperation and participation.. Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney is a United...
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Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes

Stephen A. Smith - Gallery/13A
Format: Hardcover

America's most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this surprisingly personal book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN, and who he really is when the cameras are off.....
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We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years - from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book ClubA "searching, tender, insightful, and wise memoir . . . Reading this beautifully written and generous...
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