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Agent Sniper: The Cold War Super Agent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
Tim Tate - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For almost three years, as a Lieutenant Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled thousands of top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls... |
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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
Willie Mays - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field in this reflective and inspirational memoir."It's because of giants like Willie that someone like me could even think about running for President." -- President... |
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LEGION RISING: Surviving Combat And The Scars It Left Behind
Jeff Morris - WildBlue Press
Format: Paperback
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Not everyone has pulled shards of another man's skull from the palm of their hand. Not everyone has stood over the bodies of friends whose lives were lost in an instant. Not everyone has struggled to face their own reflection for years on end. But anyone who has experienced trauma or adversity... |
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Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In this candid and emotional memoir, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff takes you into Trump Tower and the White House to tell the funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with one of the most famous women in the world, a woman few people truly understand.
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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
Ian Bostridge - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the worlds most famous and challenging song cycle, Schuberts Winter Journey Winterreise, by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themesliterary, historical, psychologicalthat weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.Completed... |
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world... |
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And There Was Light
Jon Meacham
Format: electronic resource
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “In his captivating new book,... |
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Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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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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Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir
Robert Kirby - Graphic Mundi - PSU Press
Format: Paperback
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Marriage doesn't define a relationship. Unless you want it to. . In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after gay marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell... |
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Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
Sutton Foster - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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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... |
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Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Andrew Morton
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the New York Times bestselling author of 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle... |
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Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Laurie Woolever - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and... |
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Empty: A Memoir
Susan Burton - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still."A smart, brave gift to the world. Bravo!" - Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir and The Liar's ClubFor almost thirty years, Susan Burton... |
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All In: An Autobiography
Billie Jean King - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby... |
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
Will Friedwald - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers... |
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In the Company of Legends
Joan Kramer New York - Beaufort Books
Format: Hardcover
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Starting with their award winning profiles of Fred Astaire in 1980, Joan Kramer and David Heeley documented the lives and careers of many Hollywood legends, establishing a reputation for finding the un-findable, persuading the reluctant, and maintaining unique relationships long after the end credits... |
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Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France (Hakim's Odyssey, 3)
Fabien Toulme - Graphic Mundi
Format: Hardcover
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The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life. -- I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey. -- Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip! -- You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago.After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach European soil, full... |
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Wake Up With Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years
Jean Dolores Schmidt - Harper Select
Format: Hardcover
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Known to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As Sister Jean wisely says, "I've seen so many... |
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She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
Sarah Smarsh - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities - and strengths - of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard... |
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Smile: The Story of a Face
Sarah Ruhl - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bell's palsy patients see spontaneous improvement and experience a full... |
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Julia Sweig - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances--following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--he had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned... |
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Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
Robert A. Jensen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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You have seen Robert A. Jensen -- you just never knew it. As the owner of the world's largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and the Bali bombings, to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane... |
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Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
Sharon Gless - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Anyone who has seen Sharon Gless act in Cagney and Lacey, Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, and countless other shows and movies, knows that she's someone who gives every role her all. She holds nothing back in Apparently There Were Complaints, a hilarious, deeply personal memoir that spills... |
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The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life
Alex Trebek - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career.Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights... |
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I Am Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson - Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer - interwoven with his recollections of collaborating with fellow artists such as Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and Snoop Dogg.Recognized the world over... |
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Maybe An Artist, A Graphic Memoir
Elizabeth Montague - Random House Studio
Format: Hardcover
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A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, when she was just 22 years old.When Liz Montague was a senior in college, she wrote to the New Yorker, asking them why they didn't publish more inclusive comics.... |
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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Peter Cozzens - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning... |
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The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Joanna Gaines - Harper Select
Format: Hardcover
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In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth.We've... |
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Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son
Madeleine Dean
Format: Hardcover
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When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had sensed something was wrong. Harry was losing weight... |
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Sorry Not Sorry
Alyssa Milano - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, delivers here a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays are unvarnished and elegant, funny and heartbreaking, and utterly real. A timely book that shows in almost real... |
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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Phoebe Robinson - Tiny Reparations Books
Format: Hardcover
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Written in Phoebe's unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references, takes on a wide range of topics. From the values she learned from her parents (including, but not limited to, advice on not bringing outside... |
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter... |
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Unguarded
Scottie Pippen - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Scottie Pippen has been called one of the greatest NBA players for good reason. Simply put, without Pippen, there are no championship banners - let alone six - hanging from the United Center rafters. There's no Last Dance documentary. There's no "Michael Jordan" as we know... |
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter... |
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The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey - Andy Cohen Books
Format: Hardcover
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It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout... |
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Act Like You Got Some Sense
Jamie Foxx - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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This is a laugh-out-loud narrative of Jamie Foxx’s experiences growing up with his grandparents, becoming a father to two girls, and being an Oscar-winning actor and producer. Not to mention his many talents I did not know about: high school football player, his scholarship to college... |
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I Am the Storm: Inspiring Stories of People Who Fight Against Overwhelming Odds
Janice Dean - HarperCollins
Format: book
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After her acclaimed memoir, Always Sunny, Janice Dean figured she was done trying to survive or bring down awful men. Then she found herself taking on Governor Andrew Cuomo on social media and then at rallies. What at first seemed like a futile fight ended with Cuomo’s historic resignation.... |
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Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir
Tammy Duckworth - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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In EVERY DAY IS A GIFT, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing - and amazingly true - stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs... |
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I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir
Jan Grue - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am writing about all that I wanted to have, and how I got it. I am writing about what it cost, and how I was able to afford it. Jan Grue was diagnosed... |
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Mobituaries
Mo Rocca - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched audiobook that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights,... |
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What We Carry: A Memoir
Maya Shanbhag Lang - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Profoundly moving" - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club "A gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken." - Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk In caring for her aging... |
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A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany K. Barnett - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity - from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system."An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett... |
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
James McGrath Morris - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era - pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the "First Lady of the Black Press" - elevating her to her rightful place in history... |
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
JONATHAN FREEDLAND - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" - Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo... |
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We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill Markoe
Merrill Markoe - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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In her first ever graphic memoir, four-time Emmy-winning comedy writer Merrill Markoe unearths her treasured diaries, long kept under lock and key, to illustrate the hilarious story of her preteen and teen years and how she came to realize that her secret power was her humor. Wielding her layered... |
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The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters
Rachel Trethewey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their father - 'the greatest Englishman'... |
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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Eric Cervini - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring bookFrom a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received... |
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Good Husbandry: A Memoir
Kristin Kimball - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a "beguiling memoir about the simple life" (Elle) , Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm - a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community... |
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts,... |
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
Alexander Vindman
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Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. HERE, RIGHT MATTERS is a stirring account of V |
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The Living Years: The First Genesis Memoir
Mike Rutherford - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Genesis is the rock legend of how a humble schoolboy band grew into a group of global superstars. At its center stood Mike Rutherford, driving the music from pioneering prog rock to chart-topping hits. Now for the first time, he tells the remarkable inside story of Genesis... |
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Waypoints
NOT AVAILABLE. - Voracious
Format: Hardcover
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Journey deep into the Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander Sam Heughan - exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define himIn this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam Heughan sets out along Scotland's rugged... |
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A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.
Michael Cannell - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission.... |
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young,... |
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Going There
Katie Couric - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's never shared, until... |
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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - University of California Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based... |
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." YetIn Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." YetIn Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country."... |
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic.As an idealistic and courageous teenager... |
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Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band
Willie Nelson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a small Texas town. Their close relationship - which persists today - is the longest-lasting bond in both their lives. In alternating... |
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Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
Douglas Mastriano - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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Alvin C. York 18871964devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War Iis one of Americas most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Coopers Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture... |
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Matthew Perry - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistenceIn an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto... |
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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
Daniel de Vise - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first full and authoritative biography of an American - indeed a world-wide - musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues." - President Barack Obama "He is without... |
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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Sudhir Hazareesingh - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary's image has multiplied across the globe -- appearing on banknotes and in bronze,... |
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The Beauty of Living Twice
Sharon Stone
Format: Hardcover
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She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world--until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health.... |
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Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery.In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement... |
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The Story I Am: Mad About the Writing Life
Roger Rosenblatt - Turtle Point Press
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence." -- Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020 Roger Rosenblatt has always been "mad about the writing life." In this new collection, he shares the stories and insights... |
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Dawn Turner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded - fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls - as they roamed the concrete... |
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Holly Madison - Dey St., an imprint of WilliamMorrowPublishers
Format: Print book
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The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion - and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key - from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef's former #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next DoorA spontaneous decision... |
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Eat a Peach: A Memoir
David Chang - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir. As a young, unspectacular cook, David Chang opened a noodle restaurant in Manhattan's East Village that should not have survived its first, misbegotten year. But, through... |
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Stolen: A Memoir
Elizabeth Gilpin - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to excess. At a loss, her parents... |
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Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan's #MeToo Movement
Shiori Ito - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback
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Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman's struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry - and in society at large - to ensure that future victims of sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated. In 2015, an aspiring young... |
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L. Trump Ph.D. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens... |
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir
Dr. François S. Clemmons - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of Franois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality,... |
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Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Maria Hinojosa - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who has collaborated with the most respected networks and is known for bringing humanity to her reporting. In this beautifully-rendered memoir, she relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares... |
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Roz Chast - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTIn her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents,... |
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Winfred Rembert - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted... |
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The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
Tova Friedman - Hanover Square Press
Format: Paperback
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WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEYA powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz."I am a survivor.... |
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
Cédric Villani - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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In 2010, French mathematician Cdric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator Clment Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. Birth of a Theorem is Villani's... |
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Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
Mansoor Adayfi - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Guantnamo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441.Don't Forget Us Here tells... |
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The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year
Andy Cohen - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent wordsAs a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting world not many get to see. In this dishy, detailed... |
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