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Authors, American Authors, American 21st century Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Legislators United States Biography Poètes américains 21e siècle Biographies Racism Spouses Death Suicidés États-Unis Biographies United States Écrivains américains 21e siècle BiographiesMcCaulley, Esau
Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCRandall, Julian
Summary: "The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather. Alternatively wry, lyrical, and heartfelt, Randall transforms pop culture moments into deeply personal explorations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2024
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Summary: "Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 KINGamal, Adam
Summary: "The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation 2024
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Summary: "An illuminating deep dive into the complexities of raising boys within the confines of harmful cultural norms-and how mothers can challenge those social pressures to support their sons and guide them to become connected, emotionally nuanced humans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2024
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Summary: The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACDONALD, BETTY BARD MACMillet, Lydia
Summary: "A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2024
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Summary: From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2024
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Summary: "The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moment of Lift Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LI LIMorimoto, Shoji
Summary: "Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: "Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 921 MORDe Rozario, Tania
Summary: "In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different. Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2024
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Summary: "The beloved Peloton Instructor and Dancing with the Stars finalist chronicles his journey from small town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering essay collection that reveals his secret to success: not taking yourself--or life--too seriously. Cody Rigsby has a lot of opinions: Kevin is the hottest Backstreet Boy; grape jelly is a crime against nature; if you wear flip-flops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Summary: "A powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RABOTEAU, EMILY RABButler, Blake
Summary: "Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Editions 2023
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Summary: "Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting ... the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age, and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCRAE, SHANE MCCKB (Brookins)
Summary: "By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective-the tropes, the presumptions-Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. "I should be able to define myself, but I am...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "From former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a gripping account of the January 6 committee, examining the forces that led to the attacks on the Capitol. On January 6, 2021, America watched in horror as a violent mob led by right-wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of then-President Donald Trump. It was one of the darkest days in recent history, yet to former Illinois...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KINZINGER KINYang, Kao Kalia
Summary: "In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a Hmong refugee child navigating life at home and school in America while carrying the weight of her selective mutism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2024
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Summary: "A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRITZ, IAN FRIVargas, Vincent
Summary: "An inside look at the U.S./Mexican border through the eyes of former U.S. Border Patrol agent, Vincent Vargas, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. Featuring a Foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink. The U.S./Mexican border stretches nearly 2,000 miles and is protected by a thin line of overworked and underfunded U.S. Border...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023