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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 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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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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An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country

David Finkel - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbors in this immersive account by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thank You for Your Service and The Good Soldiers.. "Finkel's account...
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

Rachelle Unreich - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter - a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration...
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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley...
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Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Deborah Taffa - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A Zibby Mag "Most Anticipated Book" * A San Francisco Chronicle "New Book to Cozy Up With" * A Publishers Weekly "Memoirs & Biographies: Top 10" * The Millions "Most Anticipated" * An Electric Lit "Books By Women of Color to Read""We...
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Head Over Heels: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman: A Love Affair in Words and Pictures

Melissa Newman - Voracious
Format: Hardcover

An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul...
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Borderline: Defending the Home Front

Vincent Vargas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An inside look at the U.S./Mexican border through the eyes of former U.S. Border Patrol agent, Vincent Vargas, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment.. Featuring a Foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink.. The U.S./Mexican...
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Samuel Graydon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness...
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