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Biography and Memoir November 2024 |
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| Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina GartenFood Network personality and bestselling cookbook author Ina Garten dishes on her life and career in her inspiring debut memoir that includes recipes. For fans of: My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich; Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci. |
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| The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford, Jr.Named one of the New York Times' 22 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall, Stanley Milford, Jr.'s engaging memoir chronicles his experiences working as a Navajo Ranger in Arizona, where he investigated paranormal occurrences and other unexplained phenomena. For fans of: The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich. |
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| Patriot by Alexei NavalnyThis compelling posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny was written shortly after his 2020 poisoning and includes never-before-seen letters he wrote while imprisoned. Try this next: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans. |
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| Sonny Boy by Al PacinoIn his candid debut memoir, iconic film actor Al Pacino details his life and career, from his fraught South Bronx childhood to his origins in avant-garde theater to roles in landmark films of the 1970s and beyond. Try this next: Take the Gun, Leave the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather by Mark Seal. |
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Master of Me by Keke PalmerFrom an award-winning, multi-hyphenate global entertainer comes the true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value. For fans of: Finding Me by Viola Davis; Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington.
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| From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley KeoughBased on hours of recordings she left behind prior to her 2023 death, Lisa Marie Presley's frank and moving memoir (completed by her daughter, actor Riley Keough) chronicles her lifetime in the spotlight as the daughter of Elvis Presley. For fans of: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley. |
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| The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava SobelPulitzer Prize finalist Dava Sobel's illuminating biography of Polish French scientist Marie Curie reveals how her influential Paris laboratory helped launch the careers of other notable women in STEM, including chemist Ellen Gleditsch and physicist Marguerite Perey. For fans of: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women -- and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura. |
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying by Youngmi MayerA standup comedian interrogates whiteness, gender and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan and coming to terms with her parents' shortcomings. For fans of: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner; Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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