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Biography and Memoir June 2022 |
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Here's the Deal : A Memoir
by Kellyanne Conway
In Here’s The Deal, Kellyanne takes you on a journey all the way to the White House and beyond with her trademark sharp wit, raw honesty, and level eye. It’s all here: what it’s like to be dissected on national television. How to outsmart the media mob. How to outclass the crazy critics. How to survive and succeed male-dominated industries. What happens when the perils of social media really hit home. And what happens when the divisions across the country start playing out in one’s own family.
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| Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert; foreword by Tim Busfield What it is: Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert's chronicle of her attempts to rehab a Catskills cottage with her husband, The West Wing's Tim Busfield (who penned the book's foreword).
Featuring: recipes for spaghetti pie, loaded baked potato soup, and gingersnap pumpkin pie; the author's signature warmth and humor.
Try this next: Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss and Love from Little House's Ma by Karen Grassle. |
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| Fly Girl by Ann HoodWhat it's about: novelist Ann Hood's time spent working as a TWA flight attendant in the late 1970s and early '80s.
Read it for: a lively and engaging behind-the-scenes account of airline crew life, peppered with anecdotes about unusual passengers and unforgettable travels.
Don't miss: Hood's rigorous training, which included learning how to deliver a baby, plate a chateaubriand, and fix a broken coffeemaker. |
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| The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to... by A.J. JacobsWhat it is: The Year of Living Biblically author A.J. Jacobs' chatty deep dive into the world of puzzles.
Featuring: interviews with experts; dozens of historical puzzles; a handful of originals created by puzzle-maker Greg Pliska.
Look for: the secret puzzle hidden in this book -- if you're the first reader to find it, you win a $10,000 cash prize! |
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Funny Business : The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald
by Michael Hill
Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Doonesbury, there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald’s Pulitzer Prize–winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington world of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the “greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift.”
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? : A Memoir
by Séamas O'reilly
This memoir from one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles follows the family as they struggle to keep the household running.
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An illuminated life : Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege
by Heidi Ardizzone
Examines the secret life of Belle de Costa Greene, who was responsible for shaping the Pierpont Morgan Library collection and who became a luminary in New York high society, describing how the daughter of free people of color invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society to take the art world by storm.
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Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
by Edafe Okporo
This memoir from the global gay rights and immigration activist recounts his being forced to flee from a violent mob in his native Nigeria and his experiences navigating the confusing U.S. immigration system as a refugee.
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I am Dolly Parton
by Brad Meltzer
Profiles the legendary country music artist, reading advocate and philanthropist who has sent over 150 million free books to children through her Imagination Library.
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Be my baby : a memoir
by Ronnie Spector
This revised version of the 1960s icons memoir features a new introduction by the late singer completed in the weeks before her death as well as a foreword from her friend Keith Richards. Simultaneous.
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Anna : the biography
by Amy Odell
This definitive biography of the legendary fashion journalist and media mogul follows her journey from the trendy fashion scene of swinging 1960s London to becoming the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.
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Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
by Stephen Tukel Mills
"At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser is moving from camp to camp, state to state, molesting countless other boys. Only physical and mental collapse bring Stephen to confront the truth of his boyhood and begin the painful path to recovery-as well as a decades-long crusade to stop a serial predator and find justice. Astonishingly, the trauma of sexual abuse is shared by one out of every six men, yet few have spoken out. Chosen is a rare act of consummate courage, the indelible story of a man who faces his torment and his tormentor and, in the process, is made whole"
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Corrections in ink : a memoir
by Keri Blakinger
The former figure skater shares her journey from the ice rink to a life of addiction that led to a two-year prison sentence, getting sober and becoming a reporter dedicated to exposing our flawed prison system.
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