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Biography and Memoir April 2024
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Between two trailers : a memoir
by J. Dana Trent
Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. This compelling memoir recounts the story of a girl who escapes her traumatic childhood, but realizes that true liberation is achieved only by making peace with the place called home.
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My side of the river : a memoir
by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage children affected by broken immigration laws.
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| Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life by Richard Paul EvansBestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) Richard Paul Evans shares insights from his life and career in this concise and inspiring blend of memoir-in-essays and advice. For fans of: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott; The Comfort Book by Matt Haig. |
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The many lives of Mama Love : a memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing
by Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter. "In addition to revealing the struggles of female felons in a misogynist justice system, the author celebrates her own determination to accept herself and begin again. A courageous and inspiring memoir." (Kirkus Reviews)
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If you can't take the heat : tales of food, feminism, and fury
by Geraldine DeRuiter
The James Beard Award-winning author presents this hilarious and pointed collection of essays that chronicle how her experiences in the world of food helped forged her feminist activism and sharp voice. "Her passionate commentary on the gender and racial inequities in restaurants, professional kitchens, publishing, and society in general ranges from kind of upset to mad as hell, and whether her deft writing goes for chuckles or teeth-grinding rage, readers will be right there with her." (Booklist)
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| Grief is For People by Sloane CrosleyNovelist and essayist Sloane Crosley's (Cult Classic) moving and darkly humorous latest chronicles how she navigated the grief of losing her best friend to suicide in 2019. Kirkus calls it, "a warm remembrance sure to resonate with anyone who has experienced loss. A marvelously tender memoir on suicide and loss." |
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| The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaulFrom international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance |
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This American ex-wife / : How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
by Lyz Lenz
Weaving reportage with sociological research, literature with popular culture, and personal stories of coming together and breaking up, a journalist and proud divorcee, in this deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage, preaches the good gospel of the power of divorce.
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