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New Biographies & MemoirsMarch 2024
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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest biographies in the collection.
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Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David ReynoldsThe prize-winning historian presents Winston Churchill, a figure of world-historical importance, by viewing his life through the eyes of his allies and adversaries, such as Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin, Gandhi and Attlee, who shaped his triumphs and failures as a leader.
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie JamisonThe New York Times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams offers this chronicle of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love following the the birth of her daughter - in a brutally honest account of the obstacles she faced in balancing creative fulfillment, parenting, dating and sobriety, which exposes feelings often obscured in other accounts of motherhood.
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Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert Phillip KolkerThis immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him.
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal HefnerThe world-renowned model, advocate, entrepreneur and wife of the late Hugh Hefner provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a powerful cultural icon and brand, revealing the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion and sharing her transformative journey to a person who finally recognized her true worth.
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Private Equity: A Memoir by Carrie SunThe daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie graduated early from MIT and climbed up the corporate ladder in pursuit of the American dream - as the sole assistant to the billionaire founder of one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, where she learned that money can solve nearly everything - until, finally, she began to rethink what it actually means to waste one's life. Here she offers a searing examination of our relationship to work, illuminating the struggle for balance in a world of extremes: efficiency and excess, status and aspiration, power and fortune.
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A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles SpencerIn this poignant memoir, the noted history book author recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school - with its culture of cruelty - as he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt, the intense pain of homesickness, the appalling inescapability of it all and the long-lasting impact of his experiences - arriving at a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in MedicinePart searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and spokesperson of bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy SanteThe Belgian-born American writer shares the arc of her artistic journey, as well as a step-by-step account of her 2021 transition from evading the truth of her own gender identity to becoming a woman at the age of nearly 70 - until, finally, she began to face who she really was.
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