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New BiographiesApril 2017
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The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia
by Liudmila Petrushevskaia
A memoir from the best-selling and award-winning Russian author, describes waiting in bread lines with her Bolshevik family who once lived across the street from the Kremlin and being raised by her aunt and grandmother after her mother left.
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Audubon : America's Greatest Naturalist and His Voyage of Discovery to Labrador
by Peter B. Logan
Meticulously researched, using many previously unknown sources, this groundbreaking book portrays the panoramic sweep of Audubon's remarkable life, from his illegitimate birth through his aimless early years as a frontier storekeeper to his decision to launch a daring enterprise from which he would emerge as America's greatest naturalist.
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Jo Malone : my story
by Jo Malone
The creator of the internationally acclaimed Jo Malone London brand traces her upbringing in government-subsidized housing in Kent, her teen efforts to provide care for her stroke-victim mother, the dyslexia that shaped her experience of the world through scent and her survival of breast cancer.
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Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder
by Leah Carroll
After losing both her parents, the author digs deep to uncover the truth about the drug dealers with mafia ties that murdered her gifted, amateur photographer mother and the deeply troubled alcoholic father who tried to raise her alone.
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The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
by Michael Finkel
Documents the true story of a man who endured a hardscrabble, isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for 27 years, in a portrait that illuminates the survival means he developed and the reasons behind his solitary life.
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How to murder your life : a memoir
by Cat Marnell
A former beauty editor at Lucky describes her secret life as a prescription-drug addict and bulimic who manipulated doctors into supporting her destructive lifestyle, recounting the early experiences that shaped her addictions and her struggles to balance her literary ambition with her disease.
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The rules do not apply
by Ariel Levy
An award-winning New Yorker staff writer and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs shares a profound, hopeful memoir of her own experiences with devastating loss to council fellow survivors about the healing aspects of accepting difficult life challenges that are beyond our control.
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The price of illusion : a memoir
by Joan Juliet Buck
A former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue presents an account of her four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris, a vocation that enabled her to learn key differences about illusion versus substance and the qualities of genuine happiness.
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Between gods : a memoir
by Alison Pick
In this powerful memoir, bestselling author Alison Pick (nominated for the Man Booker Prize) channels Karen Armstrong and Anne Lamott as she explains the shocking family secret that eventually led to her mid-life conversion to Judaism--exploring powerful, provocative questions about family, faith, and the burdens of inheritance.
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Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
by Yiyun Li
A first nonfiction book by the award-winning author of Kinder Than Solitude presents a searing response to George Orwell's question, "Why write?" while exploring the influence of such writers as William Trevor, Katherine Mansfield and Marianne Moore on her literary career.
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