| Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-JobsA poignant memoir about the complicated family dynamics between the author and her father, Apple founder Steve Jobs. The pair's lifelong rocky relationship was instigated by Jobs' denial of paternity, a claim later rebuked by DNA testing. |
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My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie by Todd FisherComplemented by previously unseen photos and memorabilia, a personal tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds shares poignant stories of the author's experiences growing up with his sister and their mother among Hollywood royalty.
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In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict - as nobody would do for another century - the dawn today of our modern computer age. This biography reveals how two turbulent lives were often governed and always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew.
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Marilyn Monroe : the private life of a public icon
by Charles Casillo
The author of The Marilyn Diaries draws on new research and interviews to reveal how Monroe's traumatic childhood contributed to her struggle with bipolar disorder and impacted her career and personal life
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| Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio VargasIn a stirring narrative book-ended by removal proceedings, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas chronicles his journey as an undocumented immigrant in America 'as if to dare the attorney general to come find him' . As Vargas poignantly states 'after 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom'. |
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Gone : a girl, a violin, a life unstrung
by Min Kym
The child prodigy-turned-violin virtuoso describes how her career was upended by the 2010 theft of her beloved 1696 Stradivarius, revealing how the instrument represented her senses of self and music and how its displacement triggered revelations about art, passion and what it means to do what one loves.
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Insomniac city : New York, Oliver, and me
by Bill Hayes
The author of Sleep Demons presents a celebration of New York City life and intimate glimpses into his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks, describing how in the aftermath of a partner's death the author moved to the city and unexpectedly fell in love on the eve of Sacks' battle with cancer.
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| A contemplative, nonlinear collection of 17 essays detailing novelist Maggie O'Farrell's near-death experiences, accompanied by her intense, awe-inspiring will to survive. It is a book to make you question what would you do if your life was in danger. |
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| Biography of talian physicist and Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, whose scientific breakthroughs included building the first atomic reactor that would be used in the Manhattan Project. In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi, the father of the nuclear age. But Fermi's impact goes well beyond this epochal event. With his theory of beta decay and his development of quantum statistics, Fermi revolutionized modern physics.
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
The best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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