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Biography and Memoir December 2017
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The last black unicorn
by Tiffany Haddish
The stand-up comedienne and co-star of The Carmichael Show presents an uproarious and poignant collection of autobiographical essays that reflect her disadvantaged youth as a foster child in South Central Los Angeles; her discovery of her talent for comedy; and her struggles with gender, race and class boundaries in the entertainment industry
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
The best-selling author draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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This Might Get a Little Heavy
by Ralphie May
There was a time when Ralphie May was one of the biggest standup comedians in the country, both by ticket sales and by tonnage. Completed just months before his untimely passing, Ralphie takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of his life and career, one that winds across the country, over obstacles, beyond heartbreak, and through the golden age of stand-up
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Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
by A. N. Wilson
A radical reappraisal of Darwin that argues that the evolution pioneer was less of an original scientific intellect than a ruthless self-promoter who did not give credit to the actual sages whose ideas he advanced in his history-shaping book.
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| Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus with Mary Jordan and Kevin SullivanIn 2013, Amanda Berry escaped from a Cleveland house where she and two other women had been captives for years. After all three were rescued and their captor, Ariel Castro, was jailed, they faced the challenge of readjusting to normal life. |
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| The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles GraeberAfter a decade of getting away with killing patients under his care, nurse Charlie Cullen was finally prosecuted by Pennsylvania authorities. Drawing on police records and other resources, author Charles Graeber reveals the gruesome details of Cullen's murders by insulin, chronicles the devastation he wrought, and vividly depicts the nature of his insanity. |
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| Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen KurzweilWhen author Allen Kurzweil was ten years old, he attended a boarding school in Switzerland, where a 12-year-old student systematically humiliated and physically abused him. Thirty years later, after helping his son deal with school bullying, Kurzweil decided to look for his former tormentor. |
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Getting life : an innocent man's 25-year journey from prison to peace : a memoir
by Michael Morton
Draws on personal recollections, court transcripts and extensive journal entries to recount the author's wrongful conviction and imprisonment for the murder of his wife, sharing for the first time his views on the conviction of the actual killer and the legal malpractice charges against his prosecutor.
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