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Biography and Memoir June 2018
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A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James Comey
What it's about: In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
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Hey mom : stories for my mother, but you can read them too
by Louie Anderson
What it's about: The Emmy Award-winning actor and stand-up comedian presents a loving tribute to his late mother that shares the wisdom he gleaned from her throughout his life, his ongoing struggles with food and dysfunctional home dynamics and how he learned to laugh at the absurdities that shaped their family.
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
What it's about: Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions.
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I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
by David Chariandy
What it is: Canadian author David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter to share with her the story of his life and to talk to her about the politics of race in her world. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth.
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Just Let Me Look at You : On Fatherhood
by Bill Gaston
What it's about: Returning to the past in his old fishing boat, revisiting the remote marina where they lived on board and learned to mooch for salmon, Bill unravels his father's relationship with his father, and learning family secrets his father took to the grave.
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| Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead MaupinWhat it's about: After brief stints in law school and the military, beloved author Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) eschewed his conservative Southern upbringing for the freewheeling San Francisco of the 1970s, finding a community in the burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement.
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Gender Failure [Ebook]
by Ivan E. Coyote
What it's about: Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all.
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Underdog : confessions of a right-wing gay Jewish muckraker
by Sue-Ann Levy
What it is: Chronicles the Canadian journalist's experiences in Toronto and Ontario politics, relating her personal and professional battles. Presents three novels in which two brothers, Ruben and Cameron Wolfe, strive to overcome the limitations of their family's poverty, taking jobs as fighters, and Cameron, the younger brother, tries to find love with his brother's ex-girlfriend.
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