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| Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas BoggsDrawing on interviews and previously unreleased archival materials, National Humanities Center fellow Nicholas Boggs’ moving and intimate biography of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin examines how his personal relationships impacted his life and career. |
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This happened to me : a reckoning
by Kate Price
A scholar confronts repressed memories of childhood abuse and trafficking through trauma therapy, embarking on a decade-long search for proof and healing that leads her back to her Appalachian roots, where she channels her personal pain into advocacy for vulnerable children.
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When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of...
by Graydon Carter
Journalist and former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter dishes on his 25 years working for the iconic periodical in this gossipy and self-deprecating "paean to the big, glossy, influential magazines of yore" (Booklist). For fans of: Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster by former Vanity Fair deputy editor Dana Brown.
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The jailhouse lawyer
by Calvin Duncan
An account of Charles Duncan, who became a self-taught jailhouse lawyer after a wrongful conviction at nineteen, spending decades navigating a broken legal system, advocating for fellow prisoners, fighting for his own freedom, and ultimately exposing systemic failures.
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
by Omar El Akkad
In his frank and thought-provoking blend of history and memoir, award-winning novelist Omar El Akkad (American War) examines the West's apathy and inaction toward Israel's ongoing destruction of Gaza. Try this next: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
by Sophie Elmhirst
A couple seeking escape sells everything to sail the world, but after a whale sinks their boat, they endure months adrift in a raft, battling starvation, inner demons and the ultimate test of their relationship in this true-life survival struggle.
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Yoko : a biography
by David Sheff
Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.
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