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Biography and Memoir June 2025 |
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| Mark Twain by Ron ChernowIn his well-researched latest, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow (Alexander Hamilton) offers a nuanced and richly detailed portrait of writer Mark Twain that's been deemed a "monumental achievement" (Booklist) and "essential reading" (Kirkus Reviews). For fans of: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin. |
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The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
by Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the "tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir" History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother's life, told in reverse order from burial to birth. When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29, 2020, it unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter, Jill Bialosky. Now, with a poet's eye for detail and a novelist's flair for storytelling, Jill presents a profoundly moving elegy unlike any other. The End Is the Beginning is not just a family memoir, it is a brave and compassionate celebration of a woman's life and death and a window into a daughter's inextricable bond to her mother.
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Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
by Todd S. Purdum
Chronicles the life of a trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball's beloved husband on I Love Lucy, leaving a legacy that continues to influence American culture today.
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| Karen: A Brother Remembers by Kelsey GrammerActor Kelsey Grammer reflects on the 1975 kidnapping, rape, and murder of his teenage sister Karen in this affecting account of grief and healing. Try this next: The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne. |
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Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
by Gerri Willis
Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit-the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union spy? The answer was simple: freedom. Right in the heart of the Confederate capital, Elizabeth played the society lady while building a secret espionage network of slaves, Unionists, and prisoners of war. It would cost her almost everything. Flouting society's expectations for women, Elizabeth infiltrated prisons and defied public opinion.
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Who Knew
by Barry Diller
The author shares candid insights on his personal and professional growth as he recounts his remarkable career, from starting in a mailroom to revolutionizing the TV industry and launching Fox, to building IAC into a multi-billion-dollar e-commerce empire.
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| I Was Better Last Night by Harvey FiersteinThis witty memoir from four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein explores the author's coming out and commitment to gay rights activism, his creative process and artistic coming of age, and working on Broadway hits including Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and Kinky Boots. |
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I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-jehovah’s Witness
by Daniel Allen Cox
Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and "out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics -from gaslighting to shunning -and their resulting harms--from simmering anger to substance abuse- all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books?
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This Body I Wore
by Diana Goetsch
Chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades, in this full account of trans life, one both unusually public and closeted.
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Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity
by Arlene Stein
Drawn from interviews with transgender people, medical and psychological experts, as well as activists, an award-winning sociologist reveals how a younger generation of trans men are changing our perceptions about gender.
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Michigan City, Indiana 46360
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