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New Biographies & MemoirsFebruary 2021
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Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas by Alexi PappasThe award-winning writer, filmmaker and Olympic track athlete describes her childhood embrace of female role models in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide, detailing the hard work, unrelenting resolve and private depression that challenged her own ambitions.
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Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir by Natasha D. TretheweyThe former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Guard shares a chillingly personal memoir about the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, Trethewey explores how this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.
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Dog flowers : a memoir by Danielle GellerThe award-winning essayist draws on archival documents in a narrative account that explores how her family’s troubled past and the death of her mother, a homeless alcoholic, reflected the traditions and tragic history of her Navajo heritage in a story of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, "the family we are given, and the ones we choose".
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The last queen : Elizabeth II's seventy year battle to save the House of Windsor by Clive IrvingIrving probes the question of the British monarchy's longevity: Helped by the new generation of Windsors, Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, but a more fragile institution is emerging, one whose extraordinarily dutiful matriarch has managed to persevere with dignity despite having "made a Faustian pact with the media".
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The last days of John Lennon by James PattersonPublished to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lennon’s assassination and based on insider interviews, Patterson chronicles the iconic music artist’s final days, including coverage of his last album and the life of his assassin Mark David Chapman.
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His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama : an illustrated biography by Tenzin Geyche Tethong"This beautifully illustrated chronicle presents an in-depth, firsthand narrative of the Dalai Lama's life story and the Tibetan saga. From remembrances of those close to him and a treasure trove of over 400 images of Tibet's priceless visual heritage, it preserves a record of what it was like to create a nation from nothing, in exile, and how His Holiness rallied endlessly for his people."
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The sea view has me again : Uwe Johnson in Sheernessby Patrick WrightOriginally from the Baltic province of Mecklenburg in the GDR and already famous as one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, Johnson lived and worked in 1970s' Sheerness, Kent. Wright explores what caused him to abandon West Berlin and spend the last years of his life here, and why his closely observed writings continue to speak with such clairvoyance in the age of Brexit.
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What becomes a legend most : a biography of Richard Avedon by Philip GefterThis first definitive biography of the 20th century photographer luminary shares insights into Avedon’s Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, examining how this intensely driven man, who struggled with deep insecurities as well as personal and professional discrimination, mounted an existential lifelong battle to be recognized as an artist.
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Walking with ghosts : a memoir by Gabriel ByrneThe actor offers reflections on his difficult Irish childhood to his Hollywood and Broadway success as he channels Ireland's literary masters to create a lyrical and expressive memoir which pays homage to Ireland's soulful and glorious traditions and history, as well as its impoverished places populated by the proud yet flawed men and women who influenced him in profound and sometimes perverse ways.
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Planet Claire : suite for cello and sad-eyed lovers : a memoirby Jeff PorterAfter 26 years of marriage, Porter's wife Claire suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage in their driveway. In elegiac prose, the bereft Porter grieves by reminiscing about the life they shared together in a long, final letter that will never be answered. Trying to make sense of events by considering lessons from literature, philosophy and music, Porter uses the planets as a means to structure the chapters as well as to try to organize his momentous sense of loss that is ultimately without tangible meaning or reason.
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The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines by Brian DeerAn award-winning UK investigative reporter exposes the truth behind the anti-vaccination crisis as he discredits Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor and the leading proponent of the discredited view that vaccines cause autism. Deer reveals how Wakefield fabricated research results for his Lancet paper, failed to disclose financial conflicts of interest, manipulated researchers and parents, and lied to the public.
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Prince Philip revealed by Ingrid SewardThe editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine presents a biography of the British consort to discuss his aristocratic childhood in Paris, more than seven-decade marriage to Elizabeth II and loyal service as a statesman and philanthropist.
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Our days are like full years : a memoir with letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet PattisonPattison reveals her fifteen-year romance with the architect for whom she served as confidante, intellectual partner, and the mother of his only son. She recounts her passionate relationship with the married Kahn, twenty-seven years her senior, in a story that weaves together Pattison's own familial and artistic story, as well as revealing Kahn's inner life and architectural thought process.
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I'll be seeing you : a memoir by Elizabeth BergIn this moving memoir, the New York Times bestselling author shares her experiences caring for her parents in their final years, charting the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that even in the most fractious of times, love can heal.
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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
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A place of exodus : home, memory, and Texas by David BiespielThe acclaimed poet and memoirist tells the story of the rise and fall of his Jewish boyhood in Texas and his search for the answer to his life's central riddle: Are we ever done leaving home? After a near-forty-year exile, Biespiel returns for a day as a different person to the world he left behind.
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Loved and wanted : a memoir of choice, children, and womanhood by Christa ParravaniThe university professor and best-selling author of Her offers a passionate, personal view of a woman's love for her children and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children's lives.
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