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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s, Anke reveled in headline-grabbing romances with three members of the hugely influential rock band The Midnight Ramblers. Outside of the bandmembers themselves, Anke is the only one who fully understands the tangled relationships, betrayals, and suspicions that has...
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English
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From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
Author
Series
Meridian book volume F404
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Book Company
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
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The author, formerly a Zulu chief "tells of his education at an American missionary college, of his becoming a chief of his people, and of his long battle against racial discrimination, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961."
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the '80s and '90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower and--most of the time--a true believer....
6) Mother, nature: a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this breathtaking story, the author and his mother retrace the 5,000-mile journey she walked with his father, a travel writer in the 1970s, discovering who she was then and who she is now--a parent who loves her son yet holds onto a version of faith that sees his sexuality as sin.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life forever: her sister had just shot her partner and was now in jail. During the investigation that follows, Michelle learns that Nikki had been hiding horrific abuse for years. Stunned to find herself in a situation she'd only ever encountered on television and true crime podcasts, Michelle rearranges her life to care for Nikki's children and simultaneously launches a fight to bring...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this collection of personal essays, Evans shares his journey from childhood to beloved author. He offers the insightful lessons he's learned and advice about everything from marriage to parenthood and even facing near-death experiences.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected by broken immigration laws.
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English
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"From Adam Gamal, one of the only Muslim Arab Americans to serve inside "the Unit," comes a firsthand account of our nation's most secretive military group. When Adam arrived in the United States at the age of nineteen, he spoke no English, and at 5'1" and 112 pounds, he was far from what you might expect of a soldier. But compelled into service by a debt he felt he owed to his new country, he rose through the ranks of the military to become one of...
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Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her...
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Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Florian Gadsby tells the story of his artistic awakening, his education in England, Ireland and Japan. Arguing for the value in dedicating yourself to a craft, Florian weaves anecdotes about particular pots and processes into the narrative of his life, exploring what he has learnt from specific pieces he was taught to throw during his apprenticeships and how they have informed his philosophy and approach to his work.
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
NBA All-Star and ESPN commentator Carlos Boozer shares his full story in this memoir about overcoming trauma, achieving your dreams and staying true to who you are in the process.
18) The Waltham murders: one woman's pursuit to expose the truth behind a murder and a national tragedy
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were murdered in a brutal triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts. The case went unsolved for months and then years, with no discernible leads. Erik's friend Susan Zalkind, an investigative journalist, needed closure and knew that finding it would be up to her. As Susan began digging, and as the Boston Marathon bombing exposed startling new leads, the case led her down a tangled and sometimes dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and saints.” Written mostly with love, sometimes with rue, this memoir is also a meditation on working, sprinkled throughout with tips for anyone who has ever imagined writing, directing, or producing for the screen.
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