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Biography and Memoir April 2024 |
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American Mother
by Colum McCann
Diane Foley’s voice tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – in search of answers, beyond justice, found through dogged, empathetic, spiritual enquiry.
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Slow noodles : a Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes
by Chantha Nguon
Sharing over 20 Khmer recipes, a Cambodian refugee recounts her life after the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart in the 1970s, showing how she relied on her beloved mother's“slow noodles” approach to healing and to cooking—one that prioritizes time and care over expediency. Illustrations.
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Devout : a memoir of doubt
by Anna Gazmarian
A woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder shares how she learned to reconcile the stigma that her devout Christian fundamentalist community attached to her diagnosis and how she was able to overcome it to find the help she needed.
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| Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life by Richard Paul EvansBestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) Richard Paul Evans shares insights from his life and career in this concise and inspiring blend of memoir-in-essays and advice. For fans of: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott; The Comfort Book by Matt Haig. |
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| The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaulDrag queen and pop culture icon RuPaul dishes on his life and career in this candid and empowering follow-up to his 1995 memoir Lettin' It All Hang Out. Try this next: Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag by Craig Seligman. |
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The story of the Bee Gees : children of the world
by Bob Stanley
A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees—Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
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| Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson TaffaIn her thought-provoking debut named a Most Anticipated Book by Elle, The New York Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, Deborah Jackson Taffa, a member of the Quechan (Yuma) and Laguna Pueblo, recounts her fraught coming of age in the 1980s as a "Native girl in a northwestern New Mexico town where cowboys still hated Indians." |
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