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New Biographies & Memoirs March & April 2025
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Average Joe : The Memoirs of a Blue-Collar Entertainer
by Joe Piscopo
In Average Joe, Piscopo shares behind-the-scenes stories from an impressive, multi-faceted career. As a new entertainer, he performed stand-up and hosted at the famous Improv in New York City, where he got to know comics who were just starting out, including Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, and Gilbert Gottfried. On SNL, he often paired with newcomer Eddie Murphy, writing and performing now classic skits. He saw himself as the utility guy, the one who could jump in, get something done, and get a laugh.
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Eternal Flame : The Authorized Biography of the Bangles
by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Featuring exclusive insights from the band members themselves, this biography of the groundbreaking all-female pop band chronicles their meteoric rise to 1980s superstardom, the challenges of fame and their enduring legacy in a male-dominated music industry.
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Firstborn : a memoir
by Lauren Christensen
A heartbreaking yet hopeful memoir of love, loss, and resilience, recounting the joy of impending parenthood, the devastating loss of a child and the profound journey of grappling with grief while finding meaning in life's deepest paradoxes.
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I dream of Joni : a portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 snapshots
by Henry Alford
A New Yorker humorist and journalist presents a witty and insightful exploration of Joni Mitchell's iconic career, delving into her relationships, artistry and personal journey through 53 essays that blend anecdotes, quotes and lyrics with sharp humor.
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Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's first South Asian star
by Mayukh Sen
Merle Oberon attained Hollywood immortality with a nomination for a Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in the 1935 film 'The Dark Angel'. It was the first time a performer of colour had received an acting nomination at the Academy Awards but becauseOberon concealed her South Asian identity throughout her lifetime and 'passed' for white, very few people knew it. In 'Love, Queenie', the first biography in more than forty years of the India-born actress, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and previously untapped archival research to animate the 'Wuthering Heights' star's hard-won journey to fame
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The many lives of Anne Frank
by Ruth Franklin
"A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary"
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The McCartney legacy. : 1974-80 Volume 2, 1974-80
by Allan Kozinn
"By 1974 the Beatles were a distant memory, and Paul McCartney had already gone on to release a solo album and form a new band, Wings. By the end of the decade Wings would be the bestselling band of the 1970s. The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 2 begins in 1974 at the height of Wings popularity and the beginning of McCartney's next chapter. Picking up immediately after The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, authors Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair have brought the same exhaustive research ethos to Volume 2 that made the first volume a critical success. Arguably the most authoritative text on the life of Paul McCartney, Volume 2 follows McCartney the man, establishing himself as a musician beyond Beatlemania and his legacy throughout the 20th century through the present-day"
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Together we roared : alongside Tiger for his epic twelve-year, thirteen-majors run
by Steve Williams
"When Tiger Woods went on an extraordinary majors run between 1999 and 2008, one man stood at his side: his caddie Steve Williams. Together Steve and Tiger dominated the PGA Tour and won an astonishing thirteen major championships, their sights set on breaking Jack Nicklaus's record eighteen majors. Before they could overtake Nicklaus, however, their partnership ended abruptly, and a twelve-year period without talking began. Years later, the two reconnected"--Provided by publisher
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Unshrunk : a story of psychiatric treatment resistance
by Laura Delano
A memoir of navigating psychiatric diagnoses and medications, chronicling the author's thirteen-year struggle within the mental health system, her decision to reject prescribed treatments, and her journey to redefine herself while questioning the influence of psychiatry and pharmaceuticals on human identity.
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Yoko : a biography
by David Sheff
"John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world's most famous unknown artist. She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain--an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing--hidden in the Beatles' formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono's life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage. Yoko's life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John's murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko's nine decades--one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono's reputation but elevates it to iconic status"
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