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Biography and Memoir April 2018
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This Is Me : Loving the Person You Are Today
by Chrissy Metz
A prescriptive book of inspirational and spiritual life lessons from the Golden Globe-nominated star of NBC's This Is Us examines the role of authenticity and sincerity in her successes, encouraging readers to claim their rightful places in a world that constantly undermines individuals.
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My American dream : a life of love, family, and food
by Lidia Bastianich
The Emmy Award-winning host of Lidia's Kitchen and best-selling author of Lidia's Celebrate Like an Italian shares a heartwarming, revelatory memoir that traces her impoverished but loving upbringing under Tito's communist regime, her years as a refugee while trying to enter the United States and her early start as a restaurant worker.
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North : Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
by Scott Jurek
An expert ultrarunner and best-selling author of Eat and Run describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.
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The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery
by Barbara K. Lipska
Describes how the author, a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness, endured months of terrifying symptoms related to a brain melanoma before immunotherapy enabled a cure, recounting in vivid detail her recollection of the experience and what it revealed about the role of mental illness, brain injury and age on behavior, personality and memory.
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| My Fight, Your Fight by Ronda RouseyA fiery and engrossing autobiography in which mixed martial artist champion Ronda Rousey recounts her rocky path to stardom, dispensing advice and encouragement to readers along the way.
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On the line
by Serena Williams
The Grand Slam and Olympic champion traces her rise from a disadvantaged childhood to one of the world's top women tennis players, sharing frank coverage of subjects ranging from her battles with racism and the injuries that threatened her career to her current roles as a philanthropist and media personality.
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A skating life
by Dorothy Hamill
A personal memoir by the Olympic gold medallist shares the painful secrets of her private life, from her difficulties with her alcoholic father and her emotionally distant mother to her ex-husband's fatal plane crash and her own struggles with depression and bankruptcy.
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