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Biography and Memoir February 2026 |
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| A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to... by Adam MorganAmerican editor Margaret C. Anderson was a champion of early modernists including Djuna Barnes and James Joyce, giving their experimental works voice in her upstart literary journal The Little Review. Critic Adam Morgan documents her fierce advocacy of the arts, romances with various high-profile women, and independence from the 20th-century status quo. Readers will savor this “enlightening depiction of a[n]…influential figure of both modernism and queer history” (Publishers Weekly). |
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Homeschooled: A New York Times Bestselling Memoir and Read with Jenna Pick
by Stefan Merrill Block
Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were 'stifling his creativity.' Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family's living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to his own devices and his mother's erratic whims, such as her project to recapture her twelve-year-old son's early years by bleaching his hair and putting him on a crawling regimen. Years before homeschooling would become a massive nationwide movement, at a time when it had just become legal in his home state of Texas, Stefan vanished into that unseen space and into his mother's increasingly eccentric theories and projects. [So] when, after five years away from the outside world, Stefan reentered the public school system in Plano as a freshman, he was in for a jarring awakening--
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
by Belle Burden
A beautifully written instant classic. Strangers is gripping and heartbreaking and a must-read for every wife--and husband.--Graydon Carter Asks us to examine life's most perplexing questions: Can we see the invisible fault lines in a marriage or truly know the people closest to us?
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Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage
by Kelly Foster Lundquist
Through the retelling of a marriage that ended twenty years ago, a writer reckons with the bodily and spiritual impact of the beard trope as it manifests in literature, popular culture, and her own romantic history-- Provided by publisher.
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Focus on: Black History Month
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| Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant...and Completely Over It by Lester Fabian BrathwaiteEntertainment Weekly writer Lester Fabian Brathwaite debuts with a provocative collection of essays focused on the author’s Black and queer identity. He strikes a tone that veers from funny to frustrated while tackling topics relating to body image, Black masculinity, the white male gaze, and much more in these witty and irreverent monologues. |
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| The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory; Christian Gregory, editorBlack comedy legend and raconteur Dick Gregory grew up in St. Louis and first received widespread acclaim after successful sets at Chicago’s Playboy Club. As the 1960s progressed, Gregory became increasingly involved in the civil rights movement, eventually becoming just as well-known for his activism as his comedy. This book collects writings and speeches from all phases of his storied career, edited by his son Christian. |
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| Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline GumbsPoet Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ innovative, adventurous biography of Black feminist poet Audre Lorde is a tribute to and legacy of a shared intersectional identity. Gumbs, who, like her subject, is an LGBTQIA+ descendant of Caribbean immigrants, details how Lorde rose from a difficult upbringing to become an inspiring feminist figure whose work never hesitated to call out injustice and oppression in this “scintillating tour de force” (Publishers Weekly). |
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| The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of... by David NicholsonAuthor and former journalist David Nicholson dives deep into family archives to pen the sweeping story of his ancestors from before the Civil War to the mid-20th century. Beginning with an enslaved patriarch who purchased freedom for himself and family members, notable Garretts would go on to become soldiers, scholars, and lawyers, steadfastly building a legacy of success despite an unsympathetic and, at times, antagonistic society. |
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