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Biography and Memoir July 2016
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| Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China by Eddie HuangChef Eddie Huang follows his memoir Fresh Off the Boat, which inspired the television show of the same name, with this account of cooking in China itself. After he began to wonder if his New York restaurant's food was really authentic, Huang enlisted his two brothers in a research adventure in Chengdu. In addition to providing a travelogue that vividly describes contemporary China, Double Cup Love is a personal memoir of Huang's family and his romance with fiancée Dena. His "fiery descriptive flair" (Kirkus Reviews) offers an entertaining as well as informative look at modern Chinese life. |
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Life is not an accident : a memoir of reinvention
by Jay Williams
In a candid, no-holds-barred memoir, the former Chicago Bulls' top draft pick talks about the accident that ended his career and sent him down a new path, shares behind-the-scenes details of life as an All-American and speaks out about corruption in the NBA.
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Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
by Jay Busbee
Published to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Earnhardt Sr.'s death, a profile of the influential NASCAR family is set against a backdrop of the history of the world's fastest stock car racing organization and traces the achievements of three generations of Earnhardt drivers.
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Life and times of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
An illustrated version of America's most famous autobiography—including the perspectives of contemporaneous soldiers, statesmen and abolitionists and pieces by well-known historians and prominent African Americans—sheds new light on his famous text.
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Trying to float : coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel
by Nicolaia Rips
A precocious student at the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts describes her experiences of trying to find a place for herself while growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel at the sides of her eccentric, unconventional and creative parents.
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My father and Atticus Finch : a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama
by Joseph Madison Beck
Reconstructing his father’s defense of a black man charged with raping a white woman in 1938 and exploring the similarities between his father’s story and the one at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird, the author presents a gripping narrative of how race, class and the memory of the South’s defeat in the Civil War produced the trial’s outcome.
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Leap of faith : My Journey to Become the Fastest American on Two Blades
by Blake Leeper
Shares the author's inspirational story as an athlete born without legs who is poised to become the first disabled American athlete on the U.S. Olympic Team, describing how, against all odds, he learned to use prosthetic limbs and worked hard to tie the world record.
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Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
by Larry Tye
An award-winning journalist and the New York Times best-selling author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend was given unprecedented access by the Kennedy family to write this in-depth biography of the political operative who masterminded his brother's whatever-it-takes bids for senator and president.
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The Great Clod : Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
by Gary Snyder
Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects several essays published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as 'The China Book,' and several others, the majority, never before published in any form. 'Summer in Hokkaido,' 'Wild in China,' 'Ink and Charcoal,' 'Wolf-Hair Brush,' these essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion.
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| A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer by Mary Elizabeth WilliamsIn 2010, after journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams received a diagnosis of malignant melanoma and was given six months to live, she enrolled in a clinical trial that offered cutting-edge immunotherapy. Surprisingly, she appeared cancer free after 12 weeks, and remains healthy in 2016. In her candid and detailed memoir, Williams relates the physical and emotional trauma of her disease and treatment, employing an amusing, anecdotal style that reads almost like a novel. If you have faced similar challenges or are especially interested in the current state of cancer research and treatment, you'll want to seek out this uplifting book. |
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Dear Mr. You
by Mary-Louise Parker
August 2, 1964. The award-winning actress tells her life story through the letters she's written to the men in her life, both real and hypothetical, including the grandfather she never knew, a priest from childhood, past boyfriends and the uncle of the baby girl she adopted.
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| Fidel Castro, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet; translated by Andrew HurleyAugust 13, 1926. Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba that overthrew Fulgencia Batista in 1959 and replaced his pro-U.S. administration with a left-wing government aligned with major Communist nations. Castro's Cuba represented a political threat to the U.S. until recently, with Fidel Castro himself the primary symbol of that antagonism. Fidel Castro presents a series of interviews conducted by Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet that offer engaging anecdotes about Castro's life, insight into his personality, and coherent political commentary. This intriguing book, a Booklist Best Biography choice for 2008, relates 85 years of important Latin American history in engaging conversational style. |
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| Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob SpitzAugust 15, 1912. Julia Child, cookbook author and television star, lived a rich and complex life even before she discovered French cuisine in 1948. In Dearie, biographer Bob Spitz recounts details of Child's California upbringing, her wartime service with the OSS, her loving relationship with her husband, and her friendships and professional ties. Her apparently inexhaustible energy and joie de vivre come to life on the pages of this biography. Fans of her televised cooking shows and of Mastering the Art of French Cooking will savor these details, some of which were published in Child's memoir My Life in France and brought to the screen in Julie and Julia. |
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Hero : the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia
by Michael Korda
August 16, 1888. The biographer of the best-selling Ike presents a photograph-complemented profile of the iconic English adventurer that includes coverage of such topics as his Oxford education, contradictory nature and role in uniting the Arab tribes against Turkish adversaries.
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| Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund BartlettAugust 28, 1828. While Russian author Leo Tolstoy is perhaps best known in the West for his towering literary achievements, especially the novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he devoted his life as much to campaigning for political and religious reform as to his writing. In this thoroughly researched biography, which draws on newly available historical records as well as earlier biographical resources, author Rosamund Bartlett illuminates his difficult personality, his military career, his philosophy, and his religious practices. For additional perspectives on Leo Tolstoy, try Sofia Tolstoy, Alexandra Popoff's biography of Leo's wife (whose birth date is August 22). |
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