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A Very Private School: A Memoir

Charles Spencer - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important...
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

Lydia Millet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and Literary Hub. This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet's life is deeply threatened.Across...
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon...
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Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

Brianna Madia - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one but her four dogs.In her debut memoir,...
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Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl

Rebecca Quin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin - a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch - delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. . By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already...
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Paperback

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about...
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The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors

Tony Jones author of "The Church Is - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"I have read a lot of books in my life, but never one like this... this captivating memoir will take you places you might never have gone on your own: into the elemental mysteries of life, death, creatureliness, and divinity with someone who has turned from the orderliness of religion...
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I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

Clare Mackintosh - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction debut with this deeply felt memoir of unfathomable loss, and infinite hope. "Grief has run through my life like thread through fabric; at times gossamer-thin and barely there, other times...
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You're Doing Great! (And Other Lies Alcohol Told Me)

Dustin Dunbar - Wonderwell
Format: Hardcover

Everything you know about alcohol is a lie. Dustin Dunbar had it all. A beautiful wife, two sweet baby girls, a degree in psychology, and properties around the world - the building blocks of a nascent real estate empire. All the while, he happily believed every lie alcohol told him: "Real...
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Mafia Miami: FBI Politics and How an Investigation Was Nearly Sabotaged

Jerry Hester - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Get the inside look at an FBI undercover operation that exposed an Italian mafioso's global crime network. This remarkable and entertaining story takes readers through the challenges, twists and turns, and inevitable administrative roadblocks one encounters while running a high-profile...
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