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Biography and Memoir May 2023 |
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Choosing to run : a memoir
by Des Linden
This inspirational memoir from the two-time Olympian and Boston Marathon winner traces her unique path to the top of professional running and how she built her own personal business model and brand.
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The half of it : a memoir
by Madison Beer
"A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight"
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Mott Street : a Chinese American family's story of exclusion and homecoming
by Ava Chin
Beautifully written, meticulously researched and tremendously resonant, this sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act traces the story of her pioneering family members' epic journey to lay down roots in America, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. Illustrations.
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Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets
by Burkhard Bilger
"What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gèonner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out"
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Ringmaster : Vince McMahon and the unmaking of America
by Abraham Reisman
Featuring never-before-seen research and exclusive interviews with people who witnessed, aided and suffered from his ascent, this unauthorized, independent, investigative chronicle of the media mogul, defining cultural force and one of Donald Trump's closest friends uses his story as a new lens for understanding the contemporary American apocalypse.
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Follow me to hell : McNelly's Texas Rangers and the rise of frontier justice
by Tom Clavin
"Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, throwing cattle thieves, desperadoes, border ruffians, and other dangerous criminals into jail or, if that's how they wanted it, six feet under. They would stop at nothing in pursuit of justice, even sending 26 Rangers across the border to retrieve stolen cattle--taking on hundreds of Mexican troops with nothing but their Sharps rifles and six-guns. The nation came to call them "McNelly's Rangers." Set against the backdrop of 200 years of thrilling Texas Rangers history, this page-turner takes readers into the tough life along the Texas border that was tamed by a courageous, yet doomed, captain and his team of fearless men. It was one hell of a ride!"
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Don't tell anybody the secrets I told you : a memoir
by Lucinda Williams
The three-time Grammy winner discusses her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, how she fought through years of music industry anonymity and hostility, and the events that helped shaped her music.
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Jimi / : Official 80th Birthday Edition
by Janie Hendrix
"This comprehensive visual celebration is an official collaboration with Jimi's sister, Janie Hendrix, and John McDermott...Jimi significantly expands on the authors' previously published titles...and features a new introduction by Janie, extensive biographical texts, and a trove of lesser known and never-before-published photographs, personal memorabilia, lyrics, and more"
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No filter : the good, the bad, and the beautiful
by Paulina Porizkova
"Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"
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The Windsors at war : the King, his brother, and a family divided
by Alexander Larman
This never-before-told-story of World War II in Britain and America focuses on the Windsor family, their conflicted relationships and the events that rocked the international press, showing how they finally managed to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes.
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The dead are gods : a memoir
by Eirinie Carson
In this striking, intimate and profoundly moving depiction of life after sudden loss, the author, after losing her best friend Larissa, attempts to make sense of the events leading up to her death, alongside a timely, honest and personal exploration of Black love and Black life.
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I swear : politics is messier than my minivan
by Katie Porter
The progressive U.S. House representative from Orange County, California reflects on her unlikely ascent from the farmlands of Iowa to Congress and her record of fighting consumer protection, corporate accountability and anti-corruption reforms.
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