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Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl

Rebecca Quin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin - a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch - delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. . By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already...
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If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For

Molly Stillman - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm...
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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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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Christian Cooper - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up."Wondrous . . . captivating."...
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First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

Lorissa Rinehart - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against...
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V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

Craig Nelson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy"...
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What the Taliban Told Me

Ian Fritz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through...
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

Tracy Borman - ‎Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, ElizabethMuch of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas...
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Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail

Andrea Lani - Bison Books
Format: Paperback

Reading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography. One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hundred miles of wilderness. And one woman, determined to escape the humdrum existence of modern parenting and a toxic work environment and to confront the history of environmental damage wreaked...
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The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

Amani Ballour - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria. Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved...
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