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Biography and Memoir April 2024
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Life after Power
by Jared Cohen
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
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The Cave: a Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria
by Amani Ballour
Tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers from the atrocities of war while contending with the patriarchal conservatism around her. Amani Ballour is a game changer who, like Malala Yousafzai, will be remembered as one of history’s great heroines.
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Power and Glory
by Alexander Larman
An expert chronicler of the House of Windsor, in this conclusion to his acclaimed trilogy, uses rare and previously unseen documents to paint a vivid portrait of the end of one sovereign's reign and the beginning of another's.
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| Grief is For People by Sloane CrosleyNovelist and essayist Sloane Crosley's (Cult Classic) moving and darkly humorous latest chronicles how she navigated the grief of losing her best friend to suicide in 2019. |
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie
The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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| Sharing Too Much by Richard Paul EvansBestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) Richard Paul Evans shares insights from his life and career in this concise and inspiring blend of memoir-in-essays and advice. |
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The Great Abolitionist
by Stephen Puleo
This first major biography of a forgotten civil rights hero who, at great personal sacrifice, was the conscience of the North and the most influential politician fighting for abolition, shows how he laid the foundation that civil rights advocates to build upon to achieve equality among the races.
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
by James Patterson
Showcasing the smart and talented people who live between the pages, this inspiring collection of true stories, invites us into a world where we can feed our curiosities, discover new voices and find whatever we want or require.
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Outspoken Paul Robeson: Ahead of His Time
by Carole Boston Weatherford
This moving birth-to-death biography paints a vivid portrait of Paul Robeson, an iconic and commanding figure during the Harlem Renaissance who was known for his extraordinary vocal, dramatic and oratory skills — and his unwavering activism against racial injustice.
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| Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson TaffaIn her thought-provoking debut named a Most Anticipated Book by Elle, The New York Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, Deborah Jackson Taffa, a member of the Quechan (Yuma) and Laguna Pueblo, recounts her fraught coming of age in the 1980s as a "Native girl in a northwestern New Mexico town where cowboys still hated Indians." |
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The Rulebreaker
by Susan Page
Drawing on 150 interviews and extensive archival research, this definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time, who gave women a permanent place on the air, reveals the woman behind the legacy — one who broke all the rules to tell viewers what they deserved to know
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