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Biography and Memoir March 2025 |
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| Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill GatesMicrosoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates' conversational first memoir offers a reflective and richly detailed account of his first two decades. Further reading: Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das. |
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| Memorial Days by Geraldine BrooksIn her spare and lyrical memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks (March) details her delayed grieving process after the sudden death of her husband in 2019. For fans of: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion; In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom. |
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
by Olivia Campbell
In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stèucklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no choice but to flee due to their Jewish ancestry or anti-Nazi sentiments. Their harrowing journey out of Germany became a life-and-death situation that required Herculean efforts of friends and other prominent scientists.
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| Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan MorrisonNew Yorker editor Susan Morrison's richly detailed biography of Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels was published to coincide with the series' 50th anniversary and offers insights the author gleaned from shadowing Michaels during production of a 2018 episode. Try this next: From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV by Dick Ebersol. |
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| How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny ReichertJournalist and chef Bonny Reichert's moving debut reveals the culinary experiences she undertook to battle depression and reconnect to her heritage and identity as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. For fans of: My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories by Joan Nathan. |
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Brothers
by Alex Van Halen
This poignant memoir of brotherhood, music and enduring love celebrates the profound bond between brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen and chronicles their musical journey with personal anecdotes, untold stories and never-before-seen photos.
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