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Biography and Memoir December 2023 |
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Grimoire girl : creating an inheritance of magic and mischief
by Hilarie Burton Morgan
The actor, producer and New York Times best-selling author, who has collected and catalogued life in all its strange wonder from an early age, shares how she assembled a patchwork inheritance of a lifetime of learning for her children, and encourages readers to create their own Grimoire by looking inward. Illustrations.
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Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world
by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?
The author chronicles her reckoning with her famous double, and with what doppelgangers have to tell us about our world
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Einstein in Time and Space : A Life in 99 Particles
by Samuel Graydon
This inventive new biography of the legendary physicist examines his complex and contradictory nature—from brilliant scientist to charming lothario and life of the party—in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles. Illustrations.
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Romney : a reckoning
by McKay Coppins
Drawing on interviews with Romney himself and his inner circle as well as his personal journals, this rare glimpse into the life of the politician who in recent years has been at the center of our nation's most defining political dramas. Illustrations.
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| Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry WinklerBeloved Emmy Award-winning Happy Days and Barry actor Henry Winkler dishes on his rocky path to stardom in his heartwarming and self-deprecating memoir. Try this next: My Days: Happy and Otherwise by Marion Ross. |
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Class : a memoir
by Stephanie Land
"Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued inour culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all odds"
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
by Werner Herzog
Legendary film director and Academy Award-nominated documentarian Werner Herzog dishes on his life and career in this reflective memoir told in his signature idiosyncratic style: "As far as I'm concerned, the twentieth century, in its entirety, was a mistake." Read-alike: This Is Not My Memoir by André Gregory and Todd London.
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The Path to Paradise : A Francis Ford Coppola Story
by Sam Wasson
Granted total and unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning director's archives, the author, drawing on hundreds of interviews with the artist and those who have worked closely with him, chronicles his attempt to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking though his production company American Zoetrope.
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What's left unsaid : my life at the center of power, politics & crisis
by Melissa DeRosa
"When COVID-19 hit the United States, New York governor Andrew Cuomo was thrust onto the national stage, hailed around the globe for his leadership. Alongside him every step of the way, Melissa DeRosa quickly became a household name. In her riveting memoir, DeRosa details her journey as a young woman in politics rising to the highest levels of government, writing with raw honesty and vulnerability about the personal challenges she faced--a failing marriage, infertility, death threats, misogyny--while navigating unprecedented professional landmines along the way. DeRosa gives readers a front-row seat to the white-knuckle ride from the epicenter of the deadliest pandemic in United States history to the never-before-told story behind the #MeToo scandal thatrocked a nation and brought down a governor"
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