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New Biography & Nonfiction April 2018
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My American Dream : A Life of Love, Family, and Food
by Lidia Bastianich
The Emmy Award-winning host of Lidia's Kitchen and best-selling author of Lidia's Celebrate Like an Italian shares a heartwarming, revelatory memoir that traces her impoverished but loving upbringing under Tito's communist regime, her years as a refugee while trying to enter the United States and her early start as a restaurant worker.
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness : A Feminist Coming of Age
by Christine Lahti
A laugh-out-loud, intellectual and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories by the Academy-award-winning actress best known for her work on such productions as Chicago Hope and The Blacklist focuses on the milestones of her childhood, early career and midlife while sharing candid reflections on the realities of being a woman in today's Hollywood.
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The Neuroscientist who Lost her Mind : My Tale of Madness and Recovery
by Barbara K. Lipska
Describes how the author, a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness, endured months of terrifying symptoms related to a brain melanoma before immunotherapy enabled a cure, recounting in vivid detail her recollection of the experience and what it revealed about the role of mental illness, brain injury and age on behavior, personality and memory.
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Born Trump : Inside America's First Family
by Emily Jane Fox
The Wall Street and Silicon Valley Hive reporter presents an insider's account of the Trump family that discusses the experiences and perspectives that have shaped their controversial political and cultural views, as well as the upbringings of the family's younger members.
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The Recovering : Intoxication and Its Aftermath
by Leslie Jamison
The best-selling author of The Empathy Exams presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of genius artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
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North : Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
by Scott Jurek
An expert ultrarunner and best-selling author of Eat and Run describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.
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The Space Barons : Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space as navigated by today's leading billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are dramatically lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
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Love Rules : How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World
by Joanna Coles
Shares no-nonsense counsel for women on how to find meaningful relationships in today's complicated, largely digital, romantic landscapes, offering recommendations for recognizing and connecting with prospective quality partners who are capable of intimate, long-term commitments.
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Broadway : A history of New York City in Thirteen Miles
by Fran Leadon
A mile-by-mile history of Manhattan as reflected by its most celebrated street traces its origins as a muddy cow path in a 17th-century Dutch colony and its eventual transformation into a commercial and cultural thoroughfare of businesses, hotels and theaters reflecting the contributions of such figures as P. T. Barnum, Alexander Hamilton and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State : The Story of a Crime
by Cutter Wood
An award-winning writer who was a motel guest documents the story of a missing Gulf Coast motel owner and the efforts of local detectives to identify her assailant, offering additional insights into the psychological factors that motivate domestic crimes as based on firsthand interviews with the case's chief suspect.
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Our 50-State Border Crisis : How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic in America's Heartland
by Howard G Buffett
The prominent American philanthropist challenges mainstream understandings in a reassessment of the U.S.-Mexico border crisis that reveals a unprecedented rate of drug trafficking directly related to today's opioid epidemic, outlining bipartisan recommendations for fighting cartels, strengthening national security and addressing interrelated sources of the drug and border issues.
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