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Biography and Memoir April 2024
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| Grief is For People by Sloane CrosleyNovelist and essayist Sloane Crosley's moving and darkly humorous latest chronicles shows how she navigated the grief of losing her best friend to suicide in 2019. |
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Sociopath : a memoir by Patric GagneWith emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster. She sets out to prove that millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren't all monsters either.
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Fi : a memoir by Alexandra FullerThe best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to The Dogs Tonight discusses how she faced the sudden and unexpected death of her 21-year-old son and her struggles to not abandon her two surviving daughters.
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Rottenkid : a succulent story of survival by Brigit Legere BinnsProlific cookbook author Brigit Binns' coming-of-age memoir--co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother--reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen.
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Knife : meditations after an attempted murder by Salman RushdieThe internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, 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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Devout : a memoir of doubt by Anna GazmarianA woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder shares how she learned to reconcile the stigma that her devout Christian fundamentalist community attached to her diagnosis and how she was able to overcome it to find the help she needed.
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Ian Fleming : the complete man by Nicholas ShakespeareA fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.
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Poet warrior : a memoir by Joy HarjoThree-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.
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Vergil : The Poet's Life by Sarah RudenI n the process of creating the epic poem Aeneid, Vergil became the world's first media celebrity, a living legend. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil's own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct his life.
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You could make this place beautiful : a memoir by Maggie SmithThe award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, and forgiveness. She reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful.
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