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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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Dianaworld: An Obsession
by Edward White
A fascinating new perspective on the life and afterlife of Diana, Princess of Wales, the planet's all-purpose cultural icon.
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The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
by Jill Bialosky
Poet, novelist, and memoirist Bialosky (History of a Suicide) returns with a memoir about her mother, Iris Yvonne Bialosky, told from her death to her birth. In what amounts to an elegy, she explores her mother's experience in a care home, her family and married life, and her teen and early years.
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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
by Marcus Rediker
This comprehensive account uncovers the long-overlooked maritime origins of the Underground Railroad, highlighting the pivotal role of sea routes in aiding enslaved people's escapes and featuring figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in the fight for freedom.
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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
by Molly Jong-Fast
Jong-Fast, a writer at Vanity Fair and host of the podcast Fast Politics, offers a memoir about her famous mother (the author Erica Jong), their intense relationship, and her complicated childhood.
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Karen: A Brother Remembers
by Kelsey Grammer
On July 1, 1975, Kelsey Grammer's younger sister, 18-year-old Karen Grammer, was raped and murdered---now, for the first time, Kelsey discusses how it has affected him and the hope and healing he has found in the decades since.
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The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read: How We Let Our Kids Go and Embrace What's Next
by Meagan Francis
"From the co-host of the hit podcast The Mom Hour, THE LAST PARENTING BOOK YOU'LL EVER READ is your guide to the last stage of "active" parenting as your teenagers prepare to step into the world and you prepare to step back into yourself, for moms getting ready to launch their almost-adult kids and enter the empty nesting stage of their lives."
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Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow
A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America's greatest writer.
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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien
by Alex Vernon
Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others--not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself-- Peace is a Shy Thing provides a nearly day-by-day, gripping account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantryman in Vietnam and gives equal diligence to reconstructing O'Brien's writing process.
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Speaking in Tongues
by J. M. Coetzee
In this provocative dialogue, a Nobel laureate novelist and a leading translator investigate the nature of language and the challenges of translation.
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This is Your Mother: A Memoir
by Erica J. Simpson
From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.
also available in audio
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
by Rachel McCarthy James
Examines the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture.
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