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Biography and Memoir April 2021
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Recent & forthcoming releases |
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The Empathy Diaries: a Memoir
by Sherry Turkle
The MIT psychologist and best-selling author of Reclaiming Conversation illuminates humanity’s search for authentic connection in the face of today’s unprecedented challenges, explaining how empathy shaped her own complicated coming-of-age and survival experiences.
"One part intellectual history, one part daddy dearest, one part portrait of the critic as a young woman, this is a one-of-kind page-turner. Bravo!"--Gish Jen
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Broken (in the best possible way)
by Jenny Lawson
The award-winning humorist and author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened shares candid reflections on such topics as her experimental treatment for depression, her escape from three bears, and her business ideas for "Shark Tank."
"A new book from Jenny Lawson is always a cause for celebration, and Broken is the party of the year!"--Sarah Knight
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Her Name Was Margaret: Life and Death on the Streets
by Denise Davy
Margaret Jacobson was a sweet-natured young girl who played the accordion and had dreams of becoming a teacher until she had a psychotic break in her teens, which sent her down a darker path. This book traces Margaret's life from her childhood to her death as a homeless woman on the streets of Hamilton, Ont. With meticulous research and deep compassion, author Davy analyzed over eight hundred pages of medical records and conducted interviews with Margaret's friends and family, as well as many who worked in psychiatric care, to create this compelling portrait of a woman abandoned by society.
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Front Row at the Trump Show
by Jonathan Karl
*The Instant New York Times bestseller*
"A book historians will relish"--Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
"I've read every book about the Trump presidency. This is the best."--Bill Press
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The Beauty of Living Twice
by Sharon Stone
The Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist, and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas, and family bonds.
"[Stone] is consistently candid, alternatingly tender and feisty, and always witty..."--Kirkus
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| Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia SweigA magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappreciated impact the First Lady's political instincts had on LBJ's presidency.
"Well paced, historically rigorous, and surprisingly intimate"--Amazon reviewer |
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Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day: My Autobiography
by Captain Tom Moore
**The Sunday Times No. 1 Best Seller**
From his humble Yorkshire childhood, via the battlefields of Burma and the peaks of the Himalayas, to becoming the NHS and the U.K.'s hero during Lockdown, this is a journey for all of us. A frail, elderly man, doing his bit at a time of crisis.
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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream
by Michael Shnayerson
In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy but rather to understand him in all his complexity.
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Three Ordinary Girls: the Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes
by Tim Brady
Told for the very first time, this is the true story of three fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Smart, fiercely political, devoted solely to the cause, and "with nothing but their own lives to lose," Hannie, Truus, and Freddie took terrifying direct action against Nazi targets.
"History that reads like a novel"--Stephen Harding, author of The Last Battle
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The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
by Robert M. Utley
Robert Utley explores the final four years of Sitting Bull's life of freedom from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed role in the annihilation of Gen. George Custer's command at the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his Hunkpapa following into Canada. Sitting Bull and his people endured hostility, heartache, indecision, uncertainty, and starvation, and responded with stubborn resistance to the loss of their freedom and way of life.
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Tom Seaver: a Terrific Life
by Bill Madden
Veteran sportswriter Bill Madden writes the definitive biography of a baseball and New York sports legend, Tom Seaver, voted into the Hall of Fame by the highest percentage vote ever at the time and still the most popular player in Mets history.
"Tom Seaver was Terrific. A Man's Man. Brilliant, funny, and the best competitor I ever knew and my friend..."--Johnny Bench
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Come Fly the World: the Jet-age Story of the Women of Pan Am
by Julia Cooke
Cook documents the high standards once required of Pan Am stewardesses, from second-language fluency and a college education to youth and a trim figure, and shares the stories of remarkable, high-achieving women who served during the jet age.
"[A] pop passport to another time. Take a social history flight with the women of Pan Am..."--Lily Koppel
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Things I Learned from Falling: A Memoir
by Claire Nelson
Surviving a 25-foot fall while at Joshua Tree National Park, a journalist reflects on the four days during which she was exposed to the elements and wilderness of Southern California, sharing what she learned about herself and her will to survive while waiting to be rescued.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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