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Biography and Memoir March 2019
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
What it is: a poignant and page-turning memoir of Julie Yip-Williams' five-year battle with Stage IV colon cancer.
Read it for: moving anecdotes of the author's early life; born with congenital cataracts to an impoverished Chinese family in Vietnam, she barely survived infancy after her grandmother suggested a potion to help her "sleep forever."
About the author: Harvard-educated lawyer Yip-Williams died in March 2018, leaving behind a husband and two young daughters.
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I.M.: A Memoir
by Isaac Mizrahi
In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi offers a poignant, candid, and touching look back on his life so far. Growing up gay in a sheltered Syrian Jewish Orthodox family, Isaac had unique talents that ultimately drew him into fashion and later into celebrity circles. In his elegant memoir, Isaac delves into his lifelong battles with weight, insomnia, and depression. He tells what it was like to be an out gay man in a homophobic age and to witness the ravaging effects of the AIDS epidemic.
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Love you hard : a memoir
by Abby Maslin
The founder of the Give to Care organization shares the inspiring story of how her husband and she navigated recovery and learned to love again in the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury.
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The good immigrant : 26 writers reflect on America
by Nikesh Shukla
A U.S. follow-up to the best-selling U.K. edition collects urgent essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism and marginalization in today's increasingly divided America.
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Joy Enough
by Sarah McColl
What it's about: the year Sarah McColl spent grappling with her mother's impending death from cancer and the dissolution of her own marriage.
For fans of: candid memoirs of loss, such as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed.
Why you might like it: Despite its difficult subject matter, Pushcart Prize nominee McColl's introspective debut is ultimately hopeful.
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She Believed She Could, So She Did (It's Women's History Month!) |
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| Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by James McGrath MorrisWho it's about: pioneering journalist and activist Ethel Payne, who covered the civil rights movement for the Chicago Defender.
Notable achievements: Payne was the first African American Vietnam correspondent, the first African American reporter invited to China, and the first female African American radio/tv commentator to work for CBS.
Did you know? Payne was a witness to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; President Johnson gifted her the pen used to sign the law. |
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Women : our story
by Inc DK Publishing
A celebration of the pivotal but less-recognized roles women have played in culture and society incorporates sumptuous illustrations into a reexamination of history from a female perspective.
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Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
by Keith O'Brien
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. The men were hailed, but female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women as it recounts how they banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky.
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The beekeeper : rescuing the stolen women of Iraq
by Dunyā Mīkhā'īl
Describes the harrowing stories of women who escaped the Islamic State, all of whom said their hero was a beekeeper who used his knowledge of local terrain and a wide network of helpers and smugglers to get them to safety.
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Leftover in China : the women shaping the world's next superpower
by Roseann Lake
A narrative report on China's first generation of only daughters after the lift of the one-child policy examines the accomplishments and prospects of high-achieving young women who are postponing or avoiding marriage for the sake of professional careers that have rendered them less compatible with their rural-resident male counterparts.
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Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
by Rachel Ignotofsky
Illustrated profiles of 50 pioneering female athletes highlights their stories and achievements in more than 40 sports while exploring the challenges they overcame, in a volume that includes entries for such notables as Billie Jean King and Simone Biles. By the best-selling author of Women in Science.
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| The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare MulleyWhat it is: the previously untold story of Polish-born Christine Granville, the first woman to serve as a British intelligence officer during WWII.
Don't miss: Granville's heroic (and suspenseful) feats, which included skiing the Carpathian Mountains to deliver intel, parachuting into occupied France to aid the Resistance, and bribing the Gestapo to release three of her compatriots scheduled for execution.
For fans of: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels; Granville is rumored to be the inspiration for the first Bond Girl, Casino Royale's Vesper Lynd. |
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