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Biography and Memoir March 2024
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise of Pete Rose and the Fall of Baseball
by Keith O'Brien
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century.
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche that Took Him
by Eric Blehm
The award-winning author of the New York Times best-sellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For tells the life story of legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly who died in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche and also offers a definitive, immersive account of snowboarding and the cultural movement that exploded around it.
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
by Andre Dubus
This new collection of essays from the best-selling author reflects on his successes, failures and struggles with traditional and modern masculinity.
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
by RuPaul
From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon 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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The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
by Susan Lieu
The author faces her family's harrowing story: Vietnamese refugees who open two nail salons, well on their way to the American Dream, only to lose their inimitable matriarch after a routine plastic surgery operation goes horribly awry.
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One Way Back: A Memoir
by Christine Blasey Ford
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; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
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Carson McCullers: A Life
by Mary V. Dearborn
This new biography of the brilliant Southern author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is based on newly available letters and journals and traces how she captured the heart and longing of the outcast.
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by Nicholas Shakespeare
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.
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Life: My Story Through History
by Pope Francis
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today.
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The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall
by Josiah Bunting
A military historian, in this portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, cuts through the legend of George Catlett Marshall to the man—his frustrations, passions, loves and brilliance—to reveal a humble commander who knew not only how to lead but how to see the leader in others.
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
One of our culture's most insightful critics and most of all, an Ohioan, reflects on the golden era of basketball during the 1990s and explores what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation and the very notion of role models.
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Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
by Kao Kalia Yang
A memoir about a Hmong family's epic journey to safety, told from the perspective of the author's incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds.
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Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Reflecting on her past and present, the author, a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the "melting pot" of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Centerville Library 111 W. Spring Valley Rd Centerville, OH 45458 (937) 433-8091
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Woodbourne Library 6060 Far Hills Ave Centerville, OH 45459 (937) 435-3700
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Creativity Commons 895 Miamisburg Centerville Rd
Centerville, OH 45459 (937) 610-4425
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