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Biography and Memoir January 2023 |
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Barkley : a biography
by Timothy Bella
This definitive new biography of the NBA legend explores his early years growing up in Alabama, his NBA career and emergence as an advocate for social change and enduring voice in pop culture. Illustrations.
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The stories we tell / : Every Piece of Your Story Matters
by Joanna Gaines
In her first solo memoir, a New York Times best-selling author invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story, and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own, guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth.
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Constructing a Nervous System
by Margo Jefferson
What it is: an impressionistic memoir written by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author Margo Jefferson (Negroland).
Featuring: moving tributes to Black creatives who have shaped Jefferson's sense of self, including Ella Fitzgerald, Hattie McDaniel, and Josephine Baker.
Reviewers say: "This gorgeous memoir elevates the form to new heights" (Publishers Weekly).
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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family
by Kerri K. Greenidge
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the mostinfluential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective,shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality."
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| Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki MurakamiWhat it is: beloved novelist Haruki Murakami's (IQ84) engaging guide to the craft of writing.
What's inside: 11 conversational and self-deprecating essays revealing the author's origins as a writer, creative process, and sources of motivation and inspiration.
Book buzz: Novelist as a Vocation was named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, LitHub, The New York Observer, and Vulture. |
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A heart that works
by Rob Delaney
The co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe presents a deeply personal memoir about the death of his young son from a brain tumor and takes readers through the grief and pain that followed.
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The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd
by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
In this incredible work of narrative nonfiction, filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in 17th- and 18th-century New York.
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Martha Graham : when dance became modern : a life
by Neil Baldwin
Paints a revealing portrait of one of the most important artistic forces of the 20th century. The legendary dancer, whose pioneering movements combined with her distinctive system of training were the epitome of American modernism, performance as art, and whose profound influence is still being felt today.
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