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Biography and Memoir June 2017
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Did you miss these memoirs? |
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
by J. D. Vance
Shares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle-class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Between the world and me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
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They Left Their Homelands
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| Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma LakshmiINDIA. Best-known for her work as a judge on television's Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi, originally from Madras, India, portrays her sense of taste as an aspect of navigating a complex world. While on camera, she's a woman of few words, but this candid memoir includes details of her marriage to (and divorce from) Salman Rushdie, her love affair with billionaire Teddy Forstmann, her health struggles, and her joy in her daughter. |
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Einstein : his life and universe
by Walter Isaacson
GERMANY. A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account that describes his two marriages, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
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The age of Bowie : how David Bowie made a world of difference
by Paul Morley
UNITED KINGDOM. An author and cultural critic describes the greatest moments of the life of pioneering musician David Bowie and explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future and became someone who will never be forgotten.
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American son : my story
by Oscar De la Hoya
MEXICO. A poignant and inspirational memoir by one of America's greatest boxers describes his hard-won journey to the top of the sports world, from his early struggle as the son of Mexican-born parents, the work ethic that brought him success, his boxing career, and the pitfalls of celebrity.
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