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Biography and Memoir July 2020
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Becoming a man : The Story of a Transition
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Polly K Carl
The author explores his gender transition in his 50s, from a woman to a man amid the rise of the Trump administration and the #MeToo movement. 40,000 first printing.
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Untamed
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Glennon Doyle
An activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost. Illustrations.
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I want you to know we're still here : A Post-holocaust Memoir
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Esther Safran Foer
"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds not only reshapes her identity but gives her the long-denied opportunity to mourn the all-but-forgotten dead"
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Once a Girl, Always A Boy : A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
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Jo Ivester
Once a Girl, Always a Boy is Jeremy's journey from childhood through coming out as transgender and eventually emerging as an advocate for the transgender community. This is not only Jeremy's story but also that of his family, told from multiple perspectives -- those of the siblings who struggled to understand the brother they once saw as a sister, and of the parents who ultimately joined him in the battle against discrimination.
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The house of Kennedy
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James Patterson
A revelatory portrait of the Kennedys explores how the dual mottos, “To whom much is given, much is expected” and “Win at all costs” shaped generations of life inside and outside the family.
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This Is Big : How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me
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Marisa Meltzer
Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.
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Normal : a mother and her beautiful son
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Magdalena M. Newman
The mother of a child with severe Treacher Collins syndrome describes their family’s courageous experiences with complicated and terrifying health challenges, more than 60 painful surgeries and the social alienation of a facial disfigurement. 35,000 first printing.
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The unexpected spy : from the CIA to the FBI, my secret life taking down some of the world's most notorious terrorists
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Tracy Walder
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI."
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