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Biography and Memoir March 2024
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| Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MDSecond-generation physician Dr. Uché Blackstock recounts her education and career in medicine and describes how her experiences in both areas inspired her to found Advancing Health Equity, an organization dedicated to dismantling systemic racism in healthcare. Further reading: Sickening by Anne Pollock; Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa; Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington. |
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| An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David FinkelPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and MacArthur Fellow David Finkel explores political divisions in America via profiles of Iraq War veteran and suburban family man Brent Cummings, whom he followed from 2016 to 2020. Try this next: God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz. |
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| Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle HortonIn her heartwrenching debut memoir exploring the failures of the American criminal justice system, Michelle Horton chronicles her ongoing efforts to get her sister, Nikki, released from prison following her 2019 conviction for killing her abuser. Try this next: Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza. |
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| Errand Into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham by Deborah JowittDance critic Deborah Jowitt spotlights trailblazing modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991), who produced dozens of ballets during her prolific career and whose eponymous technique is still practiced today. Further reading: Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern by Neil Baldwin. |
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| What Have We Here? Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee WilliamsIconic Star Wars actor Billy Dee Williams dishes on his life and eight-decade career in this candid memoir written "with the panache and suavity that characterize his screen presence" (Publishers Weekly). For fans of: I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story by Anthony Daniels. |
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A Very Private School : A Memoir
by Charles Spencer
A noted history-book author recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age 8 to attend boarding school. Illustrations.
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Focus on: Women's History Month
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| Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot by Niloofar Rahmani with Adam SikesInternational Women of Courage Award winner Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot and the country's first woman pilot since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, details her unlikely path to success in a "heart-racing account [that] will leave readers gripping their seats" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: Book of Queens: The True Story of Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror by Pardis Mahdavi. |
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Dog Flowers
by Danielle Geller
What it's about: After the death of her mother, "Tweety," Navajo writer Danielle Geller used her training as an archivist to reconstruct Tweety's life and help her make sense of the loss.
What's inside: diary entries, letters, photographs, calendars, and Geller's own childhood drawings.
Is it for you? Geller's heartwrenching account of grief doesn't shy away from the darker parts of her mother's life, including her neglect of her children and battles with addiction.
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Lady Bird Johnson : an oral history
by Lady Bird Johnson
A fascinating look at the life of Lady Bird Johnson draws largely on 47 recorded oral history interviews, conducted by the author and his colleagues over a span of 18 years.
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Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
by Robert Matzen
Describes the actress's five years in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, discussing her parents' Nazi affiliations, her own involvement with the Dutch Resistance, and her burgeoning career as a ballerina
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A song flung up to heaven
by Maya Angelou
Documents the author's life between the assassination of Malcolm X to her decision to write, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, discussing her witness to the Watts riot, her work with Martin Luther King, Jr., her relationship with James Baldwin, and more.
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The wind at my back : resilience, grace, and other gifts from my mentor, Raven Wilkinson
by Misty Copeland
The first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre honors her mentor, Raven Wilkinson, the only teacher who could truly understand the obstacles she faced, sharing a story of two unapologetically Black ballerinas, their friendship and how they changed each otherand the dance worldforever. 75,000 first printing.
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They called me a lioness : a Palestinian girl's fight for freedom
by Ahed Tamimi
Seen by some as a freedom-fighting hero and by others as a naive agitator, a Palestinian activist recounts her well-publicized interactions with Israeli solders and her unwavering commitment to family—and her fearless command of her own voice despite threats, intimidation and even incarceration.
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Hell and Other Destinations : A 21st-century Memoir
by Madeleine Korbel Albright
Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir.
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Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
by Jung Chang
Presents an epic portrait of the 19th-century empress that provides coverage of the coup that rendered her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies. (This book was listed in a previous Forecast.)
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