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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You
A'ja Wilson - Flatiron Books: A Moment of Lift Book
Format: Hardcover
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"Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A'ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ourselves. Dear Black Girls is a must-read for every Black girl out there." -- Gabrielle Union, New York Times bestselling author of We're... |
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
Emmeline Clein - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. "Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange, stubborn tenderness - a deep regard for what intimacy, hope, and resistance might look... |
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Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability
Melissa Blake - Hachette Go
Format: Hardcover
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Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning... |
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
James Traub - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic... |
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Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field
Deion Sanders - Gallery/13A
Format: Hardcover
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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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Devout: A Memoir of Doubt
Anna Gazmarian - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"This moving memoir is always attuned to the possibilities of community and spiritual sustenance, even as it refuses to efface the struggles at its core - believing that this struggle, too, can be a thing of beauty." - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering. In this revelatory... |
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One Way Back: A Memoir
Christine Blasey Ford - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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