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Biography and Memoir April 2025 |
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| One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El AkkadIn his frank and thought-provoking blend of history and memoir, award-winning novelist Omar El Akkad (American War) examines the West's apathy and inaction toward Israel's ongoing destruction of Gaza. Try this next: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates. |
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Crackdown : Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs
by Garth Mullins
Crackdown is an intimate portrait of Garth's relationship with opioids, and a searing indictment of a broken system that is failing drug users and non-users alike. With street drugs getting more toxic by the day, drug users and their families, friends and communities are left to pay the price. Crackdown asks us to radically reimagine our approach to drug use, and to envisage a system that helps rather than harms.
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Fallosophy : My Trip Through Life With Ms
by Ardra Shephard
While over a million people in Canada and the United States live with Multiple Sclerosis, there is no certainty when it comes to the progression of the disease. By her mid-thirties, Ardra is struggling to walk, and it’s terrifying. As Ardra’s deepest fears keep coming true, she starts to learn the most important lesson: She’s been sold a lie about disability—it isn’t a fate worse than death. Having so far survived all of her worst-case scenarios, she begins to realize that a difficult life doesn’t have to be a joyless life.
Today, twenty years after her diagnosis, Ardra’s journey isn’t over. MS will always be a force to be reckoned with, but the woman Ardra is, day after day, is no longer negotiable.
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The migrant rain falls in reverse : a memory of Vietnam
by Vinh Nguyen
Chronicles the author's search for his vanished father, unraveling family secrets and the enduring trauma of the Vietnam War through a journey across continents, refugee histories and silenced memories to reconcile with a fractured past.
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Focus on: National Poetry Month
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| Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian BroomeIn his Kirkus Prize-winning debut, poet and screenwriter Brian Broome recounts coming of age Black and gay in 1980s Ohio, detailing his struggles with identity, addiction, and generational trauma. Try this next: No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. Moore. |
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
by Tracy K. Smith
Poet Tracy Smith, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Life on Mars, grew up in a comfortable California family, one of just a few African Americans in their community. As she came of age, she faced challenges arising from her family's racial legacy and other social issues, including class distinctions and economic disparity. Her greatest struggle came with her devoutly Christian mother's diagnosis of cancer. In Ordinary Light, Smith depicts these concerns as she explores her grief over her mother's illness and death and reveals how she discovered poetry as a path to her own healing. Publishers Weekly praises Smith's "quietly emotional power."
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Year of the monkey
by Patti Smith
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train comes a memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
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| Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha TretheweyYears after her mother's murder, Pulitzer Prize winner and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway returned to the scene of the crime, where she found long-buried answers to questions lingering from childhood. Readers stirred by this lyrical and unflinching portrait of family violence will want to check out Blood by Allison Moorer. |
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