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New Biographies & MemoirsApril 2021
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Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics by Dolly PartonA 60-year celebration of the country music and pop culture legend’s remarkable life and career explores the songs that have defined her journey and contains rare photos and memorabilia that share additional insights into classic Parton lyrics.
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Floating in a most peculiar way by Louis Onuorah Chude-SokeiA prominent African-American scholar discusses his childhood displacement from the short-lived African nation of Biafra to a relative’s strictly religious Jamaican household before arriving in his mother’s California home on the eve of the LA Riots.
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I had a miscarriage : a memoir, a movement by Jessica ZuckerDr. Jessica Zucker recounts the miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy and her subsequent journey of recovery. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, she explores "grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth".
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Norma Kamali : I am invincible by Norma KamaliThe influential fashion legend and wellness expert draws on half a century of career setbacks and successes to counsel readers on how to embrace a healthy and positive lifestyle of fully realized potential.
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Growing up Bank Street : a Greenwich Village memoir by Donna FlorioIn this coming-of age-story set on a legendary street whose residents have helped shaped the story of America since Colonial times, Florio has created a sparkling memoir of beatniks, rock stars, artists, AIDS activists, and free-thinkers, in an eccentric neighborhood that wrote its own rules on the power of community.
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The empathy diaries : a memoir by Sherry TurkleThe MIT psychologist and best-selling author of Reclaiming Conversation illuminates humanity’s search for authentic connection in the face of today’s unprecedented challenges, explaining how empathy shaped her own complicated coming-of-age and survival experiences.
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Spilt milk : memoirs by Courtney ZoffnessIn her quest for answers to the important questions of how best to raise children, what is the line between secrecy and privacy, and how the stories we tell inform who we will become, Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder manifested in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student; grapples with her young son's cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith.
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Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight by Julia SweigSweig describes Lady Bird not as the deferential wife of a boisterous politician, but as the key adviser to the leader of the Senate, vice president, and, ultimately, President of the United States.Throughout the tumultuous mid-1960s, the aftershock of the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War, the author illustrates how Lady Bird strongly influenced her husband while remaking the position of First Lady, shaping how we view it today.
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Model citizen : a memoir by Joshua MohrAfter suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-five, the award-winning author of Sirens and Damascus presents an unstinting anthology of vignettes that convey the misadventures, surrealism, tragedies and embarrassments of a life shaped by early illness and unrelenting addiction.
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Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters by Andrew MortonMorton's biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret humanizes the two extremely public figures as it examines and analyzes their complex relationship: their early idyllic youth as the closest of sisters, as well as their often fraught relationship after their father’s death and Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne.
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The beauty of living twice by Sharon StoneThe Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas and family bonds.
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Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage by Anne LamottDrawing from her own experiences, the New York Times bestselling author confronts the dilemma of how we recapture our confidence in the world and its future by suggesting intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us.
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Surviving the white gaze : a memoir by Rebecca CarrollBlack cultural critic Carroll describes growing up as the only Black person in a rural New Hampshire town, the tense relationship she had with her birth mother, her loyalty towards her adoptive parents and her search for racial identity.
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Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation by Claudio Lomnitz-AdlerAn anthropologist, historian and critic focused on Latin American culture and politics traces his Jewish grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to Peru, where their involvement with leftist intellectuals and their Zionist and socialist leanings eventually saw them exiled to Columbia.
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Speak, Okinawa : a memoir by Elizabeth Miki BrinaAn American woman whose parents met in U.S.-occupied Okinawa -- her mother a war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran -- describes the complicated, embattled dynamics of her family and the feelings of shame and self-loathing that plagued her cultural heritage.
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Kiss myself goodbye : the many lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand MountNamed after the mouse in the Beatrix Potter stories, Munca never told the truth about anything as her nephew Ferdinand Mount discovered when he embarked on a quest to uncover the true story of his beloved aunt - her multiple deceptions, secret identities, bigamous marriages, and a story that travels from the streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian era to the higher echelons of English society in the inter-war years.
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