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New Biographies & MemoirsDecember 2018
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My love story
by Tina Turner
The rock & roll legend examines her illustrious career and complicated personal life, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments.
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Endurance : my year in space, a lifetime of discovery
by Scott Kelly
A memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years, and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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All you can ever know : a memoir
by Nicole Chung
A Korean adoptee who grew up with a white family in Oregon discusses her journey to find her identity as an Asian American woman and a writer after becoming curious about her true origins.
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
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I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
by Sue Prideaux
Illuminates the life of the famous philosopher and the events and people—including his family members, composer Richard Wagner and former lover Lou Salomé—that helped shape his brilliant, eccentric but also deeply troubled mind.
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Becoming Lincoln
by William W. Freehling
A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery.
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Congratulations, who are you again?
by Harrison Scott Key
Hilarious, brutally honest and totally practical, the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor shares his outrageous journey to becoming a great American author and the lessons he learned along the way.
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The diary of a bookseller
by Shaun Bythell
The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookstore--and the delightfully unusual staff members, eccentric customers, odd townsfolk and surreal buying trips that make up his life there.
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First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
by James R Hansen
An authorized portrait of the first astronaut to set foot on the moon sheds light on other aspects of his career, from the honors he received as a naval aviator to the price he and his family paid for his professional dedication.
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