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Biography and Memoir March 2018
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Agatha Christie : A Mysterious Life
by Laura Thompson
The award-winning author of The Six offers a portrait of the iconic mystery writer that shares insights into her Edwardian youth, her marriages, her relationship with her daughter and her mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads : A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya
Traces the author's harrowing experiences as a young child during the Rwanda massacres and displacements, which separated her from her parents and forced the author and her older sister to endure six years as refugees in seven countries, foraging for survival and encountering unexpected acts of cruelty and kindness before she was granted asylum in a profoundly different America.
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| The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantúWhat it's about: Third-generation Mexican American Francisco Cantú writes eloquently of his time as a U.S. Border Agent in the American Southwest. Cantú shares how, during his four years on the job, he found himself on both sides of the immigration issue: he was as an enforcer of the law but also sympathetic to the plight of those trying to cross the border.
About the author: Cantú is a former Fulbright fellow who has received both a Whiting Award and the Pushcart Prize, and was featured on NPR's This American Life. |
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Unmasked : a memoir
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Published to coincide with his 70th birthday, a memoir by the award-winning composer, producer and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in theater history traces his half-century career, sharing insights into his eccentric, diverse family; his Oxford education; his creative process; and the events that shaped his characters and productions.
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness : A Feminist Coming of Age
by Christine Lahti
A laugh-out-loud, intellectual and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories by the Academy-award-winning actress best known for her work on such productions as Chicago Hope and The Blacklist focuses on the milestones of her childhood, early career and midlife while sharing candid reflections on the realities of being a woman in today's Hollywood.
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The princess diarist
by Carrie Fisher
"Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time--the first Star Wars movie--and what developed behind the scenes"
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| In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane GuerreroWhat it's about: When actress Dianne Guerrero (Orange is the New Black; Jane the Virgin) was just 14 years old, she returned home from school one day to find that her parents and older brother -- undocumented Colombian immigrants -- had been deported. Guerrero, born in the U.S., could stay, but she was completely on her own, as she shares in this timely and heartbreaking memoir.
You might also like: Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream by Eileen Truax. |
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Love life
by Rob Lowe
A collection of personal writings by the actor, producer and best-selling author of Stories I Only Tell My Friends discusses such topics as his work on a flop television show, an actor's preparation exercises and his experiences while coaching a kids' basketball team dominated by omnipresent helicopter parents.
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Robin Williams : When the Laughter Stops 1951-2014
by Emily Herbert
Through roles in cherished films such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Aladdin and Hook, Robin Williams became the genial face of family comedy. Emily Herbert's sensitive and thoughtful biography celebrates his genius and attempts to understand what drove such a gifted man to so tragic an end.
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| Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep by Michael SchulmanWhat it's about: Nominated for 20 Academy Awards and the winner of three (at least as of this writing), Meryl Streep is undoubtedly one of the best actors of her generation. In Her Again, author Michael Schulman profiles the iconic star and examines her early achievements, from her time at Vassar College to her success on the New York Stage to her career-making performances in films like Kramer vs. Kramer.
Read it for: an entertaining, fast-paced celebrity biography bursting with gossipy tidbits. |
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