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Between the world and me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear.What were they afraid of?
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Wishful drinking
by Carrie Fisher
A provocative, uproarious memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in Star Wars, demanding professional life, battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing.
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Who I Am
by Charlotte Rampling
In a lyrical and intimate self-portrait told through reminiscences, the Oscar-nominated actress, model and singer, sharing photographs from her personal archive, recounts the memories and passions from her childhood and youth that would inspire her life and later work as a film star.
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Molly Keane : A Life
by Sally Phipps
Molly Keane (1904-96) was an Irish novelist and playwright most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Price.
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| Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton and Cari LynnAfter her five-year-old son was killed by a car on their street, author Susan Burton turned to cocaine and then crack to dull her pain. The African American resident of South Los Angeles was inevitably arrested and spent 15 years in and out of prison, until she found a private rehab program that set her straight. Burton then created an organization that offers other previously incarcerated women a lifeline: addiction treatment, education, and a path to employment. In this moving and eye-opening memoir, Burton recounts her experiences while advocating for improvements in the prison system. |
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The long run : a memoir of loss and life in motion
by Catriona Menzies-Pike
A literary journalist and unlikely convert to distance running describes the personal tragedy that introduced her to the sport and the women who shaped its history, citing inspiring examples of pioneering athletic women who overcame challenging gender barriers in their pursuit of athletic goals.
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Rafa
by Rafael Nadal and John Carlin
Mallorcan tennis star Rafael Nadal comes from a large but close family, who have helped sustain his championship career through every point and match. In Rafa, Nadal vividly describes his mental preparation and the games he plays, while his co-author John Carlin adds a third-person narration of the same events to each chapter. These engaging parallel accounts also portray Nadal's youth, his family, and other aspects of his life, which was focused for years on the highest level of professional tennis.
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The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia
by Liudmila Petrushevskaia
A memoir from the best-selling and award-winning Russian author, describes waiting in bread lines with her Bolshevik family who once lived across the street from the Kremlin and being raised by her aunt and grandmother after her mother left.
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The Maddie diaries : A Memoir
by Maddie Ziegler
The teen dance prodigy and star of Dance Moms presents an inspirational coming-of-age memoir about how hard work and following her dreams enabled her to achieve success in both the entertainment world and life.
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| Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. RicksEnglishmen Winston Churchill and George Orwell never met; their lives had some parallels, but many more differences. Churchill was an extroverted, aristocratic conservative, while Orwell was an introverted, left-leaning member of the middle class. But they both championed democracy against totalitarianism and emphasized the significance of language in politics, offering their distinctively English worldviews to counter the perils of fascism and communism. |
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No Way but This : In Search of Paul Robeson
by Jeff Sparrow
Paul Robeson was an actor and performer, a champion athlete, a committed communist, a brilliant speaker, and a passionate activist for social justice in America, Europe, and Australia. Hailed as the most famous African American of his time, he sang with a voice that left audiences weeping, and, for a period, had the entire world at his feet and then lost everything for the sake of his principles.
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Walden on wheels : on the open road from debt to freedom
by Ken Ilgunas
In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a 3-year transcontinental journey, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before hitchhiking home to New York. What had begun as a simple mission would become an enlightening and life-changing social experiment.
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The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson : The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon
by Cherry Lewis
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 exactly 200 years ago James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it today by recognising the symptoms he identified. The story of this remarkable man's contributions to the Age of the Enlightenment is told through his three passions - medicine, politics and fossils.
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Spider from Mars : my life with Bowie
by Mick Woodmansey
The last surviving member of David Bowie’s band The Spiders From Mars, which helped launch his Ziggy Stardust persona and made him a star, shares never-before-told stories and photographs; offers details of the album sessions; and recalls the wild tours, eccentric characters and the rock ‘n roll excess that drove the band apart.
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Super freak : the life of Rick James
by Peter Benjaminson
Few American superstar stories are richer, wilder, or more excessive than Rick James's. He played in a band with Neil Young, spent years in jail, produced his first album with money from shadowy sources, crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, and became one of the biggest pop star of the era.
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Outside the Asylum : a Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry
by Lynne Jones
Outside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal exploration of the evolution of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief. Her memoir graphically describes her experiences as a practising psychiatrist in war zones and disasters around the world, from the Balkans and 'mission-accomplished' Iraq, to tsunami-affected Indonesia, post-earthquake Haiti and 'the Jungle' in Calais.
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| An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris HadfieldAfter watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on television, nine-year-old Chris Hadfield knew absolutely that he wanted to be an astronaut. It was a lofty dream -- for one thing, his native Canada had no space program. Nevertheless, Hadfield achieved his goal, becoming one of his country's few military test pilots before launching a distinguished career at NASA. His inspiring memoir is packed with fascinating details about the International Space Station and everyday life as an astronaut. |
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Justin Trudeau : The Natural Heir
by Huguette Young
This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power. Having grown up in the shadow of his famous father, a political giant who dominated Canadian politics for almost sixteen years, Justin Trudeau took many detours before discovering that he was a natural politician, with qualities, such as a charismatic ease with the public, that his father never possessed.
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| Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner with David FisherIn Leonard, Montreal-born actor William ("Captain Kirk") Shatner offers an absorbing remembrance of his friendship with Leonard ("Spock") Nimoy. Unusual for actors, their on-set camaraderie deepened into lifelong devotion through movies and trekker conventions. Shatner's moving reflections will delight general biography readers as well as fans of the Star Trek universe. |
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Tomboy survival guide
by Ivan E. Coyote
Shares the author's life as a tomboy, training as an electrician, and navigating the world as a transgender person.
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Rumours of glory : a memoir
by Bruce Cockburn
The award-winning Canadian musician traces his five-decade career of politics, activism and spiritual growth in diverse world regions, revealing how his exposure to evolving music styles has shaped him as an artist.
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Michael Bublé : onstage offstage
by Dean Freeman
Pairing the singer's own heartfelt words with hundreds of exclusive, never-before-seen photographs, this unique diary reveals Bublé's inspirational journey, from singing into a hairbrush in his suburban Canadian bedroom to entertaining thousands onstage at New York's famed Madison Square Garden.
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| Instant Mom by Nia VardalosThe Winnipeg-born and raised actress Nia Vardalos, who wrote and starred in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, enjoyed a happy and productive life, but she longed to be a mother. After years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, she and her husband decided to try the foster-to-adopt plan and (with 14 hours' notice) became the parents of an energetic three-year-old. You'll laugh out loud at Instant Mom, whether you're looking for glimpses of Hollywood behind the scenes or funny and touching parenting adventures. |
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