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Biography and Memoir June 2024
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| Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander LarmanDrawing on previously unpublished materials, the final volume in Alexander Larman's trilogy about the House of Windsor chronicles the British royal family's post-World War II exploits, culminating in the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Further reading: Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen by Kate Williams. |
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie
Booker Prize-winning novelist Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses) reflects on the 2022 attempt on his life and the aftermath in his compelling and life-affirming memoir exploring life, loss, and resilience. Try this next: Know My Name by Chanel Miller.
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Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and beyond
by Henry Winkler
With profound heart, charm and self-deprecating humor, the Emmy award-winning actor, producer and director, who has endeared himself to a new generation, shares the disheartening truth of his childhood, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you.
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Radio Daze : A Descent into Collecting
by Aaron Zevy
In Radio Daze, Zevy, often joined with his usual associates - the Ketel and cran-drinking Lewberg and the misanthropic Goldfarb - weaves tales and vignettes of his time obsessively collecting antique radios. From oldest to newest, each chapter is named after a radio. But after the Table of Contents, all semblance of order and organization, quickly disappear. These radios, in a multitude of beautiful designs and colors, are indeed very real. The stories, however, are pure Zevy - almost the truth.
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| Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya HPseudonymous Lamya H's Stonewall Book Award-winning debut offers a moving account of the author's experiences as a queer Muslim woman who immigrated to the United States as a teen and found strength from stories in the Quran. Try this next: Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar. |
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Searching for Franklin : New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
by Ken McGoogan
Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage. This book, McGoogan’s sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Métis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin’s last expedition?
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the...
by Elizabeth B. White & Joanna Sliwa
Historians Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa's moving account chronicles the daring wartime exploits of Polish Jewish mathematician Josephine Janina Mehlberg, who posed as a countess and helped save thousands of Poles imprisoned at Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. For fans of: Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo.
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