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Buses Are a Comin' : Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by Charles Person
One of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers—and the youngest of the original Freedom Riders—provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip of African American lives.
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We Came, We Saw, We Left
by Charles J. Wheelan
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: they take a year off to travel the world. This is their story. What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"-and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic-We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family's gap-year experiment. Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong?
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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
by Abraham Riesman
A revelatory portrait of the Marvel Comics legend examines Stan Lee’s influential decades of achievement as an artist and entrepreneur as well as the lesser-known private setbacks that overshadowed his career.
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The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir
by Roman Dial
An Alaska Pacific University scientist and National Geographic Explorer recounts his two-year effort to uncover the fate of his adventurer son, who in 2014 disappeared into the untracked rainforest of Corcovado National Park.
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The Growing Season
by Sarah Frey
The “Pumpkin Queen of America” proprietor of Frey Farms, Illinois’ largest H-2A visa employer, describes her tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business without abandoning the rural land of her childhood.
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Eat a Peach
by David Chang
The star of Ugly Delicious traces his upbringing as a youngest son in a deeply religious Korean-American family, his search for identity, his struggles with manic depression and his unlikely rise as one of his generation’s most influential chefs.
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Always Young and Restless
by Melody Thomas Scott
The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career.
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The Answer Is...
by Alex Trebek
Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career.
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Hill Women
by Cassie Chambers
Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women's stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
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Rocket Man
by Mark Bego
In the 1970s, when popular music on both sides of the Atlantic fragmented into disco, soul, hard rock, pop, and folk, Elton John embraced them all with his signature creative panache. Emerging in the late 1960s as a singer/songwriter, Elton was widely acknowledged as the most prolific pop and rock star of the decade by the mid-1970s. His peerless musical style and ability to jump from sensitive ballads to bawdy rock anthems to campy pop have made him a musical superstar for the ages.
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A Woman Like Her
by Sanam Maher
A journalist, in this skillfully reported and cleverly told account, reconstructs the life of a Pakistani media star who, in 2016, was murdered in a suspected honor killing, exposing a culture divided between accelerating modernity and imposed traditional values.
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A Delayed Life
by Dita Kraus
A Holocaust survivor and the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz finally tells the riveting story of her harrowing life.
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The Art of Her Deal
by Mary Jordan
Traces Melania's journey from Slovenia, where her family stood out for their nonconformity, to her days as a fledgling model known for steering clear of the industry's hard-partying scene, to a tiny living space in Manhattan she shared platonically with a male photographer, to the long, complicated dating dance that finally resulted in her marriage to Trump.
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Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime
by Debora Harding
Traces the author’s remarkable counterintuitive healing journey in the aftermath of trauma, relating how she survived a violent abduction only to endure her family’s denial, an abandonment that compelled her to learn her imprisoned attacker’s story.
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You Never Forget your First
by Alexis Coe
A whimsically irreverent portrait of America’s first President includes coverage of Washington’s entitled upbringing by a single mother, his dog “Sweetlips,” his numerous military defeats and the partisan nightmares that spun from his back-stabbing cabinet.
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Whiskey in a Teacup
by Reese Witherspoon
Academy award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.
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On Call in the Arctic
by Thomas J. Sims
A writer and actor who became a doctor describes his time working as the only physician in Nome, Alaska, where he provided care to a frontier town and surrounding Alaska Native villages in very remote areas.
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Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
by Michael McGowan
Extraordinary and unprecedented, an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history, taking readers through some of his biggest assignments, presents an insider’s account of one of the most iconic institutions of American government.
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Half Broke
by Ginger Gaffney
A top-ranked horse trainer at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico describes how her work rehabilitating abandoned horses and traumatized inmates helped her form profound bonds and overcome difficult personal challenges.
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82 Days on Okinawa
by Art Shaw
A 75th-anniversary account of the Battle of Okinawa is told from the first-person perspective of a Bronze Star hero and commander of the Deadeyes unit, which played a crucial role in the surrender of Japanese forces.
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
The best-selling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist and human rights activist offers a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years 1940-1946
by Gary Giddins
In a much-anticipated follow-up to the universally acclaimed first volume of a comprehensive Bing Crosby biography, an NBCC Winner and preeminent cultural critic focuses on Crosby's most memorable period, the war years and the origin story of White Christmas.
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Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me)
by Gary Janetti
Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life.
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My Own Words
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A first book by the Supreme Court Justice since her 1993 appointment collects engaging, serious and playful writings and speeches on topics ranging from gender equality and the workings of the Court to Judaism and the value of looking beyond U.S. shores when interpreting the Constitution.
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Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
by Anna Quindlen
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author of Object Lessons and the memoir, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, presents a heartwarming ode to grandparenthood that celebrates her transitioning family roles and her bonds with her grandchildren.
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Flat : reclaiming my body from breast cancer
by Catherine Guthrie
The author describes her experiences surviving two bouts of breast cancer and how her diagnosis impacted her own view of her body and her relationships with her family and partner
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Inside Out: A Memoir
by Demi Moore
The actress reflects on her Hollywood career, her relationship with her mother, her marriages, and the struggles with addiction, body image problems, and childhood trauma that plagued her even as she achieved professional success.
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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
by David Polonsky
Authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, a first graphic adaptation of the young holocaust diarist's poignant story includes extensive quotations from the definitive edition and faithfully conveys the immediacy and spirit of Frank's experiences in hiding.
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
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Blood: A Memoir
by Allison Moorer
An award-winning musician shares the story of how her parents’ murder-suicide forever changed both her and her sister’s lives and explores the meaning of inheritance, destiny, shame and trauma and how it shaped her art.
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Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time
by Rob Scheer
The founder of Comfort Cases, an organization that makes life better for thousands of foster children, shares his own experiences in foster care and how he was able to chart his own path and achieve his wildest dreams.
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Gator: My Life in Pinstripes
by Ron Guidry
The legendary Yankees pitcher reflects on his years playing for one of the most storied teams in sports history, tracing his relationships with such contemporaries as Billy Martin, George Steinbrenner and Reggie Jackson.
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The Girl who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya
Traces the author's harrowing experiences as a young child during the Rwanda massacres and displacements, which separated her from her parents and forced the author and her older sister to endure six years as refugees in seven countries, foraging for survival and encountering unexpected acts of cruelty and kindness before she was granted asylum in a profoundly different America.
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Open Book: A Memoir
by Jessica Simpson
An unstinting memoir by the pop artist and fashion icon traces the story of her life before and after fame, the role of faith in her achievements and her difficult decision to step out of the limelight.
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