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Updated September 6, 2024
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Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
Rushdie, Salman
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing...
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Sociopath : a memoir
Gagne, Patric
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir of the author's struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder. "A cross between a podcast by relationship therapist Esther Perel and a salacious tell-all."...
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The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir
Dunne, Griffin
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The instant New York Times bestseller! "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington Post "Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail." --Los Angeles Times ...
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On call : a doctor's journey in public service
Fauci, Anthony S.
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Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was...
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The woman in me
Spears, Britney
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Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! "In Britney Spears's memoir, she's stronger than ever." --The New York Times Over 2 million...
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Elon Musk
Isaacson, Walter
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#1 New York Times bestseller From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of...
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Consent : a memoir
Ciment, Jill
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From the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso"--Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today's moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a...
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Ambition monster : a memoir
Romolini, Jennifer
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"Entertaining and highly relatable." --The New York Times "As hilarious as it is heart-wrenching...[A] gift of storytelling, and an act of reclamation." --Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author A deeply personal...
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Feh : a memoir
Auslander, Shalom
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Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father; a guilt-wielding mother; and a violent, overbearing God. Now, as he reaches middle age, Auslander begins to suspect that what plagues him is something...
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Life's too short : a memoir
Rucker, Darius
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"Darius has always been one of my favorite people to sing with and to call a friend in this industry and yet even knowing him well for as long as I have, there are so many incredible stories in Life's Too Short that I enjoyed learning for the first time."--Sheryl Crow ...
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I shouldn't be telling you this : (but i'm going to anyway)
Devantez, Chelsea
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "I could not put this book down. It's so funny" -Ru Paul "I LOVE this book for its honesty and dark (and light!) comedy" -Rachel Dratch (Instagram) "It's f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious,...
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The uptown local : joy, death, and Joan Didion : a memoir
Leadbeater, Cory
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A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer...
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Prairie man : my Little House life & beyond
Butler, Dean
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Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans' enduring affection. Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler...
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The light of battle : Eisenhower, D-Day, and the birth of the American superpower
Paradis, Michel (Lawyer)
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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. "This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of...
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Miss May does not exist : the life and work of Elaine May, Hollywood's hidden genius
Courogen, Carrie
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Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America's greatest comic geniuses. May began her career as one-half of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May, the duo that revolutionized the...
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Tiger, Tiger
Patterson, James
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Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Patterson's account is compelling" (Daily Mail). The only major author to have nine holes-in-one gets inside the mystery of Tiger Woods in a biography that reads like an unputdownable...
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Down with the system: a memoir (of sorts)
Tankian, Serj
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THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A...
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T-shirt swim club : stories from being fat in a world of thin people
Karmel, Ian
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from his sister, Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and why it's so hard to talk about something so visible. "As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful."--Roxane Gay, author of...
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Another word for love : a memoir
Wallace, Carvell
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A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America. ...
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Coming home
Griner, Brittney
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. "Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner's time...
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Love & whiskey : the remarkable true story of Jack Daniel, his master distiller Nearest Green, and the improbable rise of Uncle Nearest
Weaver, Fawn
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Embark on a captivating journey with Love & Whiskey. New York Times bestselling author Fawn Weaver unveils the hidden narrative behind one of America's most iconic whiskey brands. This book is a vibrant exploration set in the...
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I'm mostly here to enjoy myself : one woman's pursuit of pleasure in Paris
MacNicol, Glynnis
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"A delight, the literary equivalent of a long catch-up with a brilliant friend." --New York Times "One of the most talked-about books of the year." --Gayle King When you're a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get...
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Traveling : on the path of Joni Mitchell
Powers, Ann
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*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. "What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and...
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1974 : a personal history
Prose, Francine
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"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism--uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony--give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political...
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At the edge of empire : a family's reckoning with China
Wong, Edward
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"A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along." --The Wall Street Journal "This book's power comes from Wong's broad sense of the patterns of Chinese history, reflected in the lives of a father and son, and from his ability to toggle effortlessly between the epic and...
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Docile : memoirs of a not-so-perfect Asian girl
Song, Hyeseung
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For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a searing coming-of-age memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth. A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung...
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Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and beyond
Winkler, Henry
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Instant New York Times Bestseller! From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into...
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Chasing hope : a reporter's life
Kristof, Nicholas D.
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From New York Timescolumnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism "Nick Kristof takes us behind the scenes as he risks his life to shine a light on the world's most pressing problems and...
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Once upon a time : the captivating life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Beller, Elizabeth
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A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY BESTSELLER The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography that is perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs....
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