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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
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From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Growing up amid addiction and chaos in a Minnesota trailer park, Tyler Zed and his two brothers broke the cycle of abuse and forged a different path."Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old son saved her." This is the news article detailing the event that would drastically change Tyler Zed's life and that of his family forever. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Tyler and his two brothers filled their...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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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St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable "queen of crosswords," Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker's popular crossword section. Working...
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W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and...
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