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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

Susan Page - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time - Barbara Walters - a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.. Barbara Walters was a force...
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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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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.. To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Rebecca Renner - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Editors' Choice"Delivers everything its title promises and much more." - NPR"Remarkable... Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." -- The New York Times"This nail-biter account has the intensity...
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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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Threads: The Life Stories of Bina Norris Orr, John Robinson Orr, and Pearl Sheppard Orr

Nancy Inazu - Hoot Books Publishing
Format: Paperback

Spanning three lives and multiple generations, Threads is the autobiographical retelling of a century's worth of family. It covers the experiences of Bina Norris Orr, her son John Robinson "Dodge" Orr, and Dodge's wife, Pearl Sheppard Orr. It details their joys and tragedies,...
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The Trail: a novel

Ethan Gallogly - ‎Sierra Nevada Press
Format: Paperback

A Transformative Journey on the John Muir TrailWINNER OF TWO LITERARY AWARDSA NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALISTIn Kirkus Reviews BEST BOOKS OF 2021 issue"UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMENDED" - Midwest Book ReviewSet authentically in the High Sierra, The Trail is a moving story of how nature...
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe...
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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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Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me . . . It's about spirituality and asceticism and silence and sisterhood, but also about how flawed human beings can abuse power and how hermetically sealed communities, which should care for and protect their members, can be dangerously...
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