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Biography and Memoir September 2024 |
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Warrior : my path to being brave
by Lisa Guerrero
Inside Edition's chief investigative correspondent, whose stories have led to arrests, changed federal legislation and policies at Fortune 500 companies, and helped shine a light on crime, scams, child abuse and even cold-case murders, chronicles her rise to success . 35,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Small acts of courage : a legacy of endurance and the fight for democracy
by Ali Velshi
Tapping into 125 years of family history to advocate for social justice as a living, breathing experience, the Chief Correspondent for MSNBC relates the stories of regular people who made a lasting commitment to fight for change, even when success seemed impossible, and urges us to do the same. Illustrations.
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How to say Babylon : a memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya's mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father's beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya's voice grows, lyrically and poetically, acollision course is set between them. How to Say Babylon is Sinclair's reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about"
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Lessons learned and cherished : the teacher who changed my life
by Deborah Roberts
Curated by an award-winning ABC News journalist, this collection of essays and reflections from contributors such as Oprah Winfrey, Robin Roberts, Octavia Spencer, and Misty Copeland share how teachers changed them, imparted life lessons and helped them get to where they are today.
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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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You could make this place beautiful : a memoir
by Maggie Smith
The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful
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Lessons in liberty : thirty rules for living from ten extraordinary Americans
by Jeremy S. Adams
Determined to restore young people's belief in the importance of American history, the 2014 California Teacher of the Year highlights the unique human details of iconic figures such as Daniel Inouye, George Washington, Clara Barton, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and others, and the lessons they teach.
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Sure, i'll join your cult : a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere
by Maria Bamford
"From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating disorder as a child of the 1980s, to navigating a career in the arts (and medical debt and psychiatric institutionalization), she has tried just about every method possible to not only be a part of the world, but to want to be a part of it. In Bamford's signature voice, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult, brings us on a quest to participate in something. With sincerity and transparency, she recounts every anonymous fellowship she has joined (including but not limited to: Debtors Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, and Overeaters Anonymous), every hypomanic episode (from worrying about selling out under capitalism to enforcing union rules on her Netflix TV show set to protect her health), and every easy 1-to-3-step recipe for fudge in between. Singular and inimitable, Bamford's memoir explores what it means to keep going, and to be a member of society (or any group she's invited to) despite not being very good at it. In turn, she hopes to transform isolating experiences into comedy that will make you feel less alone (withoutturning into a cult following)"
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