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Biography and Memoir June 2024
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| Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve KingstonGenevieve Kingston expands on her 2021 "Modern Love" essay in her affecting debut memoir about the milestone-themed letters and gifts her mother left behind after dying from cancer when the author was 11. For fans of: My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me by Jason B. Rosenthal. |
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| Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life by Nicholas D. KristofTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof chronicles his life and 40-year journalism career in this candid and inspiring memoir. Try this next: Reporter by Seymour M. Hersh. |
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| The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their... by Karen ValbyKaren Valby's inspiring expansion of her 2021 New York Times article profiles the trailblazing accomplishments of Black ballerinas Lydia Abarca-Mitchell, Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Sheila Rohan, Marcia Sells, and Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, who were among the first company members of the Dance Theatre of Harlem in the 1960s and '70s. Further reading: Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, A Movement, A Celebration by Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel. |
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Consent: a memoir
by Jill Ciment
The author of the novel The Body in Question reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the 47-year-old man she met when she was seventeen in the context of today's focus on the balance of power between older men and young girls.
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| Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis ChinAsian American Writers' Workshop cofounder Curtis Chin's nostalgic debut chronicles his coming-of-age in 1980s Detroit, where he worked at his family's beloved Chinese restaurant and navigated his growing attraction to other boys. Try this next: Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More by Fatima Ali. |
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Kissing Girls on Shabbat
by Sara Glass
No longer able to conform to her controlling Hasidic community, the author walked away from the world she knew and onto a path of self-acceptance as she, after a divorce, custody battle, remarriage and a shocking sexual assault, decided to finally be true to herself and embrace her queer identity.
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by Michael Waters
Uncovering, for the first time, the gripping true stories of early pioneering trans and intersex athletes, while tracking how international Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany's atrocities to pull off the Berlin Games, this inspiring call for equality is an essential contribution toward understanding the contemporary culture wars over gender in sports.
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Love Out Loud: Building a Relationship and Family from Scratch
by Joseph Jarius
Major influencers in the LGBTQ+ space, the authors show all the major obstacles they've overcome that have allowed them to achieve their dream life today, sharing their private moments of embracing who they are as individuals, a couple and as a family unit, and how truly beautiful those moments can be.
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| In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy SchneiderJeopardy! contestant Amy Schneider, the show's most decorated woman champion, shares her unlikely path toward becoming a "Famous Celebrity Trans Person" in this funny and nonlinear memoir-in-essays featuring chapter titles styled like Jeopardy! questions. Try this next: Form of a Question by Andrew Rostan. |
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