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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The author describes her lifelong commitment to feminism in a meditation on what it means to be a woman, discussing progress within the movement in her lifetime, what remains to be done, and how to move forward in the future.
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of thoselessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
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Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself"--
How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? Goetsch brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of family history, personal identity, and WWII Vienna -- a "well-researched, intimate, evocative look at some of the 20th century's foulest days" ( Kirkus ). In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After ten years of reporting from central Africa for The New York Times, Associated Press, and others, Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet life in Shippagan, Canada, with his wife and newborn. But when word arrives of preparations for ethnic cleansing in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty as a husband and father, and his moral responsibility to report on a conflict unseen by the world. Soon he is traveling...
391) Don't let them bury my story: the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in her own words
Author
Publisher
Mocha Media Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with poignant clarity. From the terror of her childhood as a seven-year-old fleeing the burning streets of Greenwood to her current role as a 109-year-old family matriarch seeking justice for the affected...
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Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."--
"Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill...
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Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nicole Avant--diplomat, philanthropist, filmmaker--grew up surrounded by some of the most extraordinary artists of our time: Bill Withers, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier. Her parents--entertainment mogul, Clarence Avant, and legendary philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant--turned their home into a place of refuge and inspiration for a generation of geniuses. Nicole drew on that magical upbringing to create a stellar career in the music business,...
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Publisher
Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father's legacy. As the son of two accomplished...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A personal guide on transitioning later in life, helping individuals to address the physical and social challenges involved throughout the process. Exploring issues such as coming out, dealing with discrimination, body dysphoria and finding your own style, it provides support to people at any stage of their journey.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic, cathartic diary of Dr. Cornelia Griggs - a young pediatric surgeon and the mother of two toddlers - as she worked on the front lines during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City's busiest hospitals"--
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