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A Better Me
by Gary Barlow
Here is one of the UK's most beloved pop stars, more open, honest and raw than ever before.
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Tragedy plus time : a tragi-comic memoir
by Adam Cayton-Holland
A poignant memoir about the touring comic author's beautiful, funny and ultimately heartbreaking relationship with his younger sister describes their activist upbringing and the mental illness and depression that culminated in her suicide.
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Southern discomfort : a memoir
by Tena Clark
A coming-of-age memoir set in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era about a girl growing up in a violent, chaotic home and the black nanny who gave her the courage to rebel against the cultural, racial, and sexual rules that defined her identity.
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Rauschenberg : Art and Life
by Mary Lynn Kotz
In preparing this highly readable book, Mary Lynn Kotz interviewed nearly everybody who had been important to Rauschenberg over the course of his life. Fresh anecdotes complement those already familiar to Rauschenberg followers, and contributions from the artist further personalize this biography.
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The barefoot woman
by Scholastique Mukasonga
A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda.
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All You Can Ever Know : A Memoir
by Nicole Chung
What does it mean to lose your roots; within your culture, within your family, and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth.
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Full disclosure
by Stormy Daniels
The former adult film star recounts her affair with Donald Trump, detailing the events that led to a nondisclosure agreement and the behind-the-scenes attempts to intimidate her, and explains why she decided to reveal her story.
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Telling Tales : The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie
by Penny Perrick
Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for popular biographies of her relatives including Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, was also an unlikely war heroine. In 1940, Anita volunteered as an ambulance driver. By the end of the war, she was the only woman to have been awarded both the Africa Star and the Croix de Guerre.
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Making Oscar Wilde
by Michèle Mendelssohn
Combining new evidence and cultural history, the author dramatizes Oscar Wilde's rise, fall and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant.
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| Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Helene CooperNobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the 24th Liberian President and Africa's first female elected head of state. Topics include: Sirleaf's exile following her failed presidential run during the First Liberian Civil War; her handling of the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
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Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family
by Shelley Emling
Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII.
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| The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare MulleyThe previously untold story of Polish-born Christine Granville, the first woman to serve as a British intelligence officer during WWII. Granville's heroic feats, which included skiing the Carpathian Mountains to deliver intel, parachuting into occupied France to aid the Resistance, and bribing the Gestapo to release three of her compatriots scheduled for execution.
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