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ron hall
Format: Book

"I saw his face." Deborah Hall's words launched the destiny of two men from very different worlds. Ron Hall was an international art dealer with upscale tastes; Denver Moore was a homeless drifter with a dangerous past. Millions have read about their unlikely bond through their...
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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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To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

Sarah Viren - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author's life - exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.....
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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcolm Belc
Format: Hardcover

Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as "the natural...
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

Kwame Onwuachi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoreeBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most...
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

Raghu Karnad - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War,...
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Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table

Toya Boudy - Countryman Press
Format: Hardcover

An intimate celebration of New Orleans food and its Black culture from a born-and-raised local chef.Toya Boudy's father grew up in the Magnolia projects of New Orleans; her mother shared a tight space with five siblings uptown. They worked hard, rotated shifts, and found time to make...
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Finding Robert: What the Doctors Never Told Us About Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Hard Lessons We Learned

Robert J. Stevens - Square One
Format: Hardcover

Diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder in the early 1990s, Robert Stevens was an exceptionally intelligent child who could not function in a mainstream environment. Being the "problem child"...
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Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich

Walter Kempowski - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before.Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's...
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Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir

Tammy Duckworth - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

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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