Imani Perry presents an essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South, as well as an argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
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Author:Perry, ImaniSummary: -
Author:Bird, JacksonSummary:An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties. When...
- Author:Kilcher, AtzSummary:
Atz Kilcher grew up with a hard father in a hard land: Alaska. Learning to use new tools--honesty, vulnerability, forgiveness, acceptance--Atz reflects on his upbringing years later and learns that healing his spirit and forgiving...
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Author:Wood, KariAnneSummary:This is a book celebrating the incredible, awesome, special individual within each of us. It's also a book for anyone who has ever mismatched her shoes or trimmed her own bangs when a professional might have been a better choice or...
- Author:Jones, FaithSummary:
Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment-an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult. Faith Jones was...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
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Author:Brooks, Joanna, Cooper, AlexSummary:Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their daughter to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex. For eight harrowing months, she was beaten and verbally abused. For the first time, Alex...
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Author:Esposito, CameronSummary:Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a standup comic. In this memoir, she tells the whole, freaking queer as hell story.
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Author:Reichl, RuthSummary:Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her...
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Author:Culver, David M., Freeman, Alan, Gonthier, ChristineSummary:David Culver, figure clé tant du milieu des affaires que du milieu culturel canadien, raconte son enfance à Montréal, ses études aux universités McGill et Harvard et son service militaire pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il décrit...
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Author:Layden, Joseph, Monk, Noel E.Summary:Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music world had ever seen--their mythos an epic party, a never-ending rock extravaganza. During this unparalleled run of success and drama, no one was closer to the...
- Author:Vonn, LindseySummary:
The first ever memoir from the most decorated female skier of all time, revealing never-before-told stories of her life in the fast lane, her struggle with depression, and the bold decisions that helped her break down barriers on and...
- Author:Solis, OctavioSummary:
Living in El Paso, just a mile from the Rio Grande, Octavio is a skinny brown kid on the border, riding his bike out into the desert, growing up among those who live there and those passing through on their way north. Rituals of...
- Author:Lawton, GeorginaSummary:
After her father died, Lawton began to unravel the truth about her parentage, and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home life to live in Black communities around the globe and to...
- Author:Cox, BrianSummary:
Many know Brian Cox as an actor of unparalleled distinction and versatility. His life story, told here, from his complicated childhood in Scotland to his rise through the film industry, is as extraordinary as his work.
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Author:Snowden, EdwardSummary:In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call...
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Author:MacLeod, JaniceSummary:How much money does it take to quit your job? Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice poses this question to herself as she doodles on a notepad at her desk. Surprisingly, the answer isn't as daunting as she expected. With a...
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Author:Van Ness, JonathanSummary:In this memoir, Queer Eye grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness shares never-before-told secrets and reveals sides of himself that the public has never seen.
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Author:Van Ness, JonathanSummary:A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflix's Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness, sharing never before told, deeply personal stories of growing up gay, transforming pain into positivity, and embracing what makes you...
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Author:Wolters, ClearySummary:The real-life Alex Vause from the show Orange Is the New Black tells her story for the first time in this memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond.
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