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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir

Cameron Russell - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry.. Now I measure the distance from model to president. You can see it in pictures. It's...
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The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall

Josiah Bunting III - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) , and a distillation of the essential lessons his formative years offer to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall's accomplishments are well known: after helping to guide the Allies...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home - from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America. "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period."...
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The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Oprahs Book Club 2.0)

Lara Love Hardin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop." - Oprah Winfrey OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly...
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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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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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Life: My Story Through History

Pope Francis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history - from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story...
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes...
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world.. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet...
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls - MCD
Format: Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother,...
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