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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that shares the most intimate details of the love Perry lost,...
2) Spare
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English
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With its raw, unflinching honesty, Prince Harry’s memoir—in which he discusses the effect of his mother Princess Diana’s death on his life—is full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this deeply personal memoir about a life spent chasing the news, the MSNBC anchor and daughter of two pioneering journalists recounts her eccentric and volatile California childhood and charts her own journey to globe-trotting foreign correspondent.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful.
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Publisher
Harper Horizon
Language
English
Description
Eight years after his news legend father died unexpectedly, the award-winning journalist embarked on a three-plus-year odyssey across six continents to discover the world and, ultimately, find himself, providing a narrative of that journey and the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life and finally grieving his larger-than-life father.
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Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peggy Rowe has been writing writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write—even through those years of constant rejection from publishing houses. But between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, Peggy’s breakthrough finally came—at the age of eighty! Vacuuming in the Nude is most likely her funniest prose to date as she shares her journey of attending myriad writers’ conferences and honing her ability...
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Zibby turned to books and writing for help after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood. Just when things seemed particularly bleak, Zibby unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness:...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her remarkable friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. Ruth drew Nina out of grief during the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina's first husband;...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, award-winning, multi-talented entertainer Jamie Foxx shares the story of being raised by his no-nonsense grandmother, the glamour and pitfalls of life in Hollywood, and the lessons he took from both worlds to raise his two daughters"--
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English
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Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After her husband of 15 years reveals he’s not happy, changing everything, the author, in this unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, chronicles how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A book about a family of loud, argumentative, musical, sarcastic, grief-stricken siblings, shepherded into adulthood by a man whose foibles and reticence were matched only by his love for his children and his determination that they would flourish.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Finding the courage to finally speak out, the granddaughter of a wealthy British baron, who was recruited into Jeffrey Epstein’s network when she was 22 and imprisoned by a web of co-conspirators, stands her truth and encourages others to do the same.
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times columnist and author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions....
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