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Biography and Memoir October 2019
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Daughter of Family G : a memoir of cancer genes, love and fate
by Ami McKay
Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsettling legacy of hereditary cancer while exploring the challenges that come from carrying the mutation that not only killed many people you loved, but might also kill you.
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Inside Out : A Memoir
by Demi Moore
Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight--or the headlines. Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood.
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The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets
by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
A sobering account of the lives of the Dionne quintuplets describes how the government of 1934 Canada seized custody of the sisters to prevent their exploitation only to render them a popular tourist attraction. By the author of The Borden Murders.
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Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online--a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience.
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Piety & power : Mike Pence and the taking of the White House
by Tom LoBianco
An AP News political analyst presents an in-depth portrait of the vice president, which includes coverage of Pence's devout Christian faith, his meteoric political career and the rumors about his ambitions to succeed Trump. .
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Toil & trouble : a memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
The best-selling author of Running with Scissors documents his lifelong capacity for causing impossible manifestations, exploring his mother’s revelations about their witch ancestry and his efforts to understand himself and his powers.
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Truth Be Told : My Journey Through Life and the Law
by Beverley McLachlin
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country. -simonandschuster.ca
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