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Biography and Memoir May 2023 |
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| Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way... by Dan AhdootWhat it's about: comedian and Cobra Kai actor Dan Ahdoot's complicated -- and often obsessive -- relationship with food.
Topics include: adopting a kosher diet in the wake of his brother's untimely death; volunteering with Meals on Wheels; interning at high-end restaurants; ill-fated hunting trips.
Try this next: Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry. |
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| A Living Remedy by Nicole ChungWhat it is: author Nicole Chung's moving follow-up to her award-winning debut memoir All You Can Ever Know, which chronicled her experiences as a transracial Korean adoptee.
What it's about: Chung's grief after losing her parents in quick succession prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Book buzz: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The New York Times, and more, Chung's latest offers "an important record of the emotional cost of the pandemic" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) by Laura Dern & Diane Ladd; foreword by Reese WitherspoonWhat's inside: intimate and reflective transcripts of conversations recorded during mother-and-daughter actresses Laura Dern and Diane Ladd's daily walks together.
Topics include: sex, motherhood, and family; career triumphs and missteps; memory and legacy.
Don't miss: photographs, recipes, and other treasured mementos. |
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| It.Goes.So.Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise KellyWhat it's about: During her oldest son's senior year of high school, journalist and NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly vowed to spend more time with him before he left for college.
Read it for: a moving and unvarnished portrait of balancing motherhood and career.
Reviewers say: "This voice-driven, relatable, heartfelt and emotional story will make any parent tear up" (Good Morning America). |
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| How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy MartinTrigger warning: How to Sell novelist Clancy Martin chronicles his alcoholism and suicide attempts in this expansion of his viral 2018 Huffington Post essay "I'm Still Here."
Is it for you? Martin's candid blend of memoir and cultural study will resonate with readers who have navigated suicidal ideation or know someone who has.
Food for thought: "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things." |
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| The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari ShapiroWhat it is: the debut memoir-in-essays from NPR All Things Considered co-host and former White House correspondent Ari Shapiro.
What's inside: an incisive behind-the-scenes look at the stories behind Shapiro's reportage that is equal parts amusing and affecting.
Read it for: the author's signature self-deprecating humor and empathetic writing style. |
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| You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie SmithWhat it's about: the dissolution of poet Maggie Smith's marriage, which she previously covered in her 2020 essay collection Keep Moving.
What sets it apart: Smith's intimate and lyrical latest frequently breaks the fourth wall, with passages addressed directly to her ex-husband, his new partner, and the readers themselves.
Further reading: This Story Will Change: A Memoir After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane. |
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| George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy by Sally Bedell SmithWhat it is: a richly detailed dual biography that reveals how the unlikely union between King George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon strengthened the British monarchy and paved the way for their daughter Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
Featuring: exclusive use of letters, diaries, and other documents from the Royal Archives.
Try this next: Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Atlantic County Library System | 40 Farragut Avenue, Mays Landing, NJ 08330
Phone: (609) 625-2776 | www.atlanticlibrary.org
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Atlantic County Board of Commissioners, Maureen Kern, Chairwoman |
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