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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster...
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How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Lyn Slater - Plume
Format: Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon,"brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental...
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One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation . On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an alleged sexual...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

RuPaul - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date - a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family,...
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Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field

Deion Sanders - Gallery/13A
Format: Hardcover

Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time - on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required...
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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot - from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. "This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding...
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire

Douglas Valentine - Trine Day
Format: Paperback

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a non-fiction book about what writer William Burroughs called, "the backlash and bad karma of empire." Set against the author's month-long trip to London, Vietnam and Thailand in early 1991, it tells how the American empire was created...
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Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and "does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it." This openhearted offering inspires. - Publishers WeeklyMostly...
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

Joy Buolamwini - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.. "Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their...
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Dangerous Normal People: Understanding Casanova Psychopaths and the Narcissistic Virus

L W Hawksby - Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
Format: Paperback

This memoir will take you on a remarkable and sometimes dark journey through a young woman's two (very different) domestically abusive relationships. With her experience laid out in diary form, spanning November 2013 to early June 2016, the author reveals the subtle and not so subtle...
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