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Random House USA Inc I Will Be Complete
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.“Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But when his father’s fortune disappeared and his parents divorced, Gold fell out of his well-curated Southern California life. He was now growing up by the side of his increasingly erratic mother, among con men and get-rich schemes in ‘70s San Francisco.Gold brings all his gifts as a novelist to a kaleidoscope of his most formative experiences: his salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale; the start of his writing career; and his es
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Random House USA Inc All In
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.“A story about the personal strength, immense growth, and undeniable greatness of one woman who fearlessly stood up to a culture trying to break her down.”—Serena WilliamsIn this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life''s journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career—six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous Battle of the Sexes. She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women''s movement, the assassinations and anti-war protests of the 1960s, the civil r
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Picador USA Achtung Baby
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St Martin's Press Somebodys Daughter
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNBCC John Leonard Prize FinalistIndie BestsellerThis is a book people will be talking about forever. Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of UntamedFord's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling authorOne of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. She doesn't know how to
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St Martin's Press When Harry Met Minnie
Book Synopsis*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!* A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that kind of fairy tale, with the vibrant, romantic New York City backdrop of its namesake, the movie When Harry Met Sally, and the bittersweet wisdom of Tuesdays with Morrie.There's a special camaraderie among early-morning dog walkers. Gathering at dog runs in the park, or strolling through the farmer''s market at Union Square before the bustling crowd appears, fellow pet owners become familiaras do the personalities of their belo
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Flatiron Books No Time Like the Future
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Flatiron Books The Panic Years
Book SynopsisRenowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby?We have descriptors for many periods of lifeadolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisisbut there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name.Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux the panic years, and it is often characterized by a preoccupation with one major question: should I have a baby? And from theredo I want a baby? With whom should I have a baby? How will I know when I'm ready? Decisions made during this period suddenly take on more weight, as questions of love, career, friendship, fertility, and family clash together while peers begin the process of coupling and breeding. But this very important process is rarely written or talked about beyond the clichés of the ticking clock.Enter Frizzell, our comforting guide, wh
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St. Martin's Press SixtyOne
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith, tragedy, and life''s most important lessons.The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel Papa Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the assault. His funeral filled the largest church in the county, which held over one thousand people. He was sixty-one years old.The day after burying his grandfather, Chris was coping the best way he knew how: by playing basketball for his high school team. After pouring in shot after shot, his last attempt was an airball purposely flung out of bounds from the foul line be
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St. Martin's Press Tanqueray
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply touching memoir . . . A beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literatureuntil now. The Washington PostThe storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest...She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in. Meet TANQUERAY.In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she's better known to HONY followers as Tanqueray, a born performer who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Reeling from a brutal childhood, immersed in a world of go-go dancers
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St Martin's Press Somebodys Daughter
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNBCC John Leonard Prize FinalistIndie BestsellerThis is a book people will be talking about forever. Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of UntamedFord's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling authorOne of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. She doesn't know how to
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St Martin's Press A Memoir of My Former Self
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Celadon Books Hollywood Park
Book Synopsis**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph.-O, The Oprah MagazineThis moving and profound memoir is for anyone who loves a good redemption story.-Good Morning America, 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020Several years ago, Jollett began writing Hollywood Park, the gripping and brutally honest memoir of his life. Published in the middle of the pandemic, it has gone on to become one of the summer's most celebrated books and a New York Times best seller... -Los Angeles MagazineHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and
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Celadon Books Hollywood Park
Book Synopsis**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph.-O, The Oprah MagazineThis moving and profound memoir is for anyone who loves a good redemption story.-Good Morning America, 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020Several years ago, Jollett began writing Hollywood Park, the gripping and brutally honest memoir of his life. Published in the middle of the pandemic, it has gone on to become one of the summer's most celebrated books and a New York Times best seller... -Los Angeles MagazineHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and
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St Martin's Press Unbound
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSearing. Powerful. Needed. OprahSometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana's words are a testimony to liberation and love. Brené BrownFrom the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful wordsme tooand how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.Tarana didn't always have the courage to say me too. As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black l
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Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Unbound
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St Martin's Press Uphill
Book SynopsisOne of Oprah Daily''s Best Fall Nonfiction Books of 2022An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by the Atlantic journalist and former ESPN SportsCenter coanchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life's battles might be.Jemele Hill's world came crashing down when she called President Trump a white supremacist; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was deluged with death threats. But Hill had faced tougher adversaries growing up in Detroit than a tweeting president. Beneath the exterior of one of the most recognizable journalists in America was a needa callingto break her family's cycle of intergenerational trauma.Born in the middle of a lively routine Friday night Monopoly game to a teen mother and a heroin-addicted father, Hill constantly adjusted to the harsh realities of not only her own childhood but the inherited generational pain of her mother and grandmother. He
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MacMillan Audio No Time Like the Future
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St. Martin's Griffin Corrections in Ink
Book SynopsisBrave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and relevant.The New York TimesAn electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman''s journeyfrom the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroomand how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice.For the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Then, on a cold day during h
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St Martin's Press While You Were Out
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard.But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfoldinga heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the u
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Henry Holt & Company Biting the Hand
Book SynopsisJulia Lee is angry. And she has questions.What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can we shatter the structures of white supremacy that fuel racial stratification?When Julia was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper, forced Julia to question her racial identity and complicity. She was neither Black nor white. So who was she?This question would follow Julia for years to come, resurfacing as she traded in her tumultuous childhood for the white upper echelon of elite academia. It was only when she began a PhD in English that she found answersnot through studying V
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Picador USA The Adventures of Herbie Cohen
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the story of Herbie: the king of Bensonhurst, the world's best negotiatorand Cohen's wise, wisecracking father.Meet Herbie Cohen, World's Greatest Negotiator, dealmaker, risk taker, raconteur, adviser to presidents and corporations, hostage and arms negotiator, lesson giver and justice seeker, author of the how-to business classic You Can Negotiate Anything. And, of course, Rich Cohen's father. The Adventures of Herbie Cohen follows our hero from his youth spent running around Brooklyn with his pals Sandy Koufax, Larry King, Who Ha, Inky, and Ben the Worrier (many of them members of his Bensonhurst gang, the Warriors); to his days coaching basketball in the army in Europe; to his years as a devoted and unconventional husband, father, and freelance guru crossing the country to give lectures, settle disputes, and hone the art of success while finding meaning in this strange, funny
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St Martin's Press Wolf Hustle
Book SynopsisFrom the South Bronx projects to the boardroomat only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the wolves of Wall Street.Growing up, Cin Fabré didn't know anything about the stock market. But she learned how to hustle from her immigrant parents, saving money so that one day she could escape her abusive father and poverty in the Bronx. Through a tip from a friend, Cin pushed her way into brokerage firm VTR Capitalan offshoot of Stratton Oakmont, the company where the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, had reigned. She was shocked to find an army of young workers, mostly Black and Brown, with no real prospects for promotion sitting at phones doing the drudge work of finding investment leads for white male brokers. But she felt the pull of profit and knew she would do whatever she had to do to be successful.Pulling back the curtain on the inequities she and so many others faced, Wolf Hustle reveals how Cin worked grueling hours, ascending from cold
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WW Norton & Co The Race to Be Myself
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to compete on her own terms.Trade Review"Caster’s story isn’t just a tale of perseverance and poise, it’s a story that makes us all interrogate our humanity and the world we build with our actions every day. An essential read." -- Trevor Noah"The Race to Be Myself is Semenya’s unburdening about that time, when she became a figure onto which the world projected all of its opinions about gender in sports… Semenya breaks her long silence, calling out her critics and asserting her right to be celebrated for her natural gifts, as other athletes are, rather than punished for them." -- Jenn A. Miller - New York Times Book Review"Revelatory." -- New York Times"[A]ffecting… This chronicle of supreme resilience will resonate even with non–sports fans." -- Publishers Weekly"Told with candor, Semenya’s story reminds readers to treat all humans with dignity and that being different does not mean being wrong." -- Booklist (starred review)"A furiously proud memoir.... Moving, inspiring testimony by a woman facing hardship merely "because of a biological condition I was born with."" -- Kirkus Reviews"A gripping, provocative book." -- Library Journal (starred review)
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WW Norton & Co The Lost Café Schindler
Book Synopsis"An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings." —Philippe Sands An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria.Trade Review"An extraordinary story—so cadenced and so moving." -- Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes"Intimate and often moving." -- Glenn C. Altschuler - Jerusalem Post"Affecting.... Ms. Schindler’s insight-filled reckoning with the past can’t help but leave behind a bitter taste that no amount of Sacher torte can disguise." -- Diane Cole - Wall Street Journal"Rigorously researched, The Lost Café Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.…It distinguishes itself through its combination of mystery and reconciliation." -- Anne Joseph - The Times (UK)"The most fascinating—and devastating—family history.…not just a genealogical exploration.…it sets out the wider experiences of the Jewish population of the Austro-Hungarian empire, weaving in the story of how antisemitism took root.…The stories could scarcely be more powerful." -- The Sunday Times (UK)"[Meriel] Schindler takes us on a journey that spans 150 years and threads across countries and continents as she uncovers her family’s history. Weaving her relatives’ personal lives into the turbulent frame of European history, Schindler moves back and forth between the public and the private realms. Lovingly written and astutely observed, The Lost Café Schindler is a meditation on loss: personal loss and loss of historic significance." -- Debórah Dwork, coauthor, with Robert Jan van Pelt, of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946"This almost unbearably touching book traces an extraordinarily diligent and sensitive process of family rediscovery. Meriel Schindler shows us how short the window of opportunity for Central European Jews was and how lasting an imprint they nonetheless left behind." -- Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the Holocaust"Meriel Schindler’s research is prodigious, her writing compelling, and her discoveries large and small reunite her with her far-flung family and with the community that exploited them, impoverished them, persecuted them, and even murdered some of them. Through the history of one family, the entire history of the Holocaust and the struggle to rebuild after the Holocaust unfolds.…I was moved to take this journey with her." -- Michael Berenbaum, professor of Jewish studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, American Jewish University, Los Angeles"The Lost Café Schindler seamlessly melds two riveting histories, the tumultuous story of Jewish life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the gripping tale of a remarkable family. Meriel Schindler’s account is a powerful personal journey of discovery. This extremely well-researched and beautifully written story is one that will linger long after the last page." -- Gerald L. Posner, coauthor of Mengele: The Complete Story"Impressively researched." -- Claire Allfree - Evening Standard (UK)"Powerful.…Beyond the compelling personal details, the author chillingly documents how the livelihoods of Austrian Jews were destroyed, ‘systematically stripped of their assets, at bargain-basement prices’.…Throughout, Schindler writes vividly about representation, memory, and the aftermath of atrocity. A significant addition to the literature on the Holocaust." -- Kirkus, starred review"Skillfully crafted.…reads like a novel.…A must-read work of narrative nonfiction that's highly recommended for readers of memoirs or 20th-century European history." -- Library Journal, starred review
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WW Norton & Co Fifty Sounds A Memoir of Language Learning and
Book SynopsisFor anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue.Trade Review"Barton as a writer is searching, analytical, sharp.... Reading Barton in critical conversation with other texts—she loves Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet—is a joy. Particular vignettes, like when she describes the uncomfortable feeling of having to explain her work at a party as giro-giro (the sound of eyes riveting deep into holes in your self-belief, or vicariously visiting the Nocturama, or every party where you have to introduce yourself), or a harmless but softly mortifying exchange with a student’s parent as yochi-yochi (the sound of tottering [at last]), read as revelations.... Barton’s insight into and passion for language is ultimately a wonder.... turning a rather universal experience into something new, exciting, and fresh—a brand new world of speech and meaning to explore." -- Christine Drill - Chicago Review of Books"In a tone that’s contemplative and playful, she ruminates on the works of Barthes, Wittgenstein, and Anne Caron, among others, to offer thought-provoking insights into literary translation as ‘a form of activism’ and refuge . . . Filled with linguistic surprises and a quiet intellect, this is sure to delight language learners and literary readers alike." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] sharp, belletristic debut . . . A refreshingly honest and novel look at the nuance and revelatory power of language." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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WW Norton & Co Home in the World A Memoir
Book SynopsisFrom Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity.Trade Review"Stirred in with Mr. Sen’s memories, which are bright in their detail and freshness, are meditations of various sorts: on the balance-sheet of British rule in India; on the importance of classical languages in a young person’s education; on the philosophical disagreements (of which there were many) between Mahatma Gandhi and the poet Rabindranath Tagore (like Mr. Sen, a Nobel laureate and Bengali); on the ghastly Bengal famine of 1943, which killed three million people; and on the differences between Britain and the U.S. in their respective approaches to an understanding of economics. . . . The most compelling chapters of Mr. Sen’s memoirs are... those that dwell lovingly—even languorously—on his childhood and schooling. . . . [Sen] is an unflinching man of science but also insistently humane. His many ardent admirers regard him as an economist for the downtrodden. How he arrived at his status of global progressive icon would make a compelling storyline for his next memoir." -- Tunku Varadarajan - Wall Street Journal"[A] graceful and hopeful book... [A] belief in shared humanity, and an attendant commitment to inclusiveness and tolerance, have been significant to Sen’s body of work, including his desire to connect abstract economic theories with real people and real problems... He joyfully recalls his undergraduate studies in Calcutta, where he spent hours in a local coffeehouse in intense conversation with classmates.... Sen is such a charming and engaging narrator that he makes recaps of quarrels over Keynesian economics appealing – not to mention understandable to laypeople." -- Barbara Spindel - Christian Science Monitor"Sen is so engaging, so full of charm and has such a clear gift for the graceful sentence. It’s a wonderful book, the portrait of a citizen of the world." -- Philip Hensher - The Spectator [UK]"Sen is more than an economist, a moral philosopher or even an academic. He is a life-long campaigner, through scholarship and activism, via friendships and the occasional enemy, for a more noble idea of home—and therefore of the world." -- Edward Luce - Financial Times"[A] moving, heartfelt memoir of his early life before and after Partition in Bengali India . . . Illuminating and wonderfully accessible as both an intimate coming-of-age tale and a crash course in economics." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"[A] quietly captivating memoir . . . [A] contemplative travelogue and a fascinating look into the singular consciousness of one of the world’s foremost thinkers . . . [A] galvanizing reflection on a roaming life." -- Publishers Weekly"A vivid memoir, recommended for those interested in the intersection of economics and social science." -- Caren Nichter - Library Journal"Charting diverse influences—Gandhi to Rabindranath Tagore to Wittgenstein to Adam Smith—Sen reiterates that his intellectual proclivities have always spilled beyond narrow disciplinary confines . . . his autobiography suggests an enduring commitment to intellectual work with social purpose." -- Booklist
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Hanover Square Press Powder Days
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The House that Cheese Built
Book SynopsisA USA TODAY BESTSELLERA quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope. Leal came to the U.S. penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the U.S. market and grew his company to a multimillion-dollar success story that defined an industry. Yet, like many successful entrepreneurs, Leal's great successes were matched by personal failures: the end of a marriage; trouble with law enforcement; and the deeply felt sense that there must be something more to life than great wealth. Read the astounding memoir of a Mexican immigrant who worked hisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue: The House that Cheese Built ix Part I Castaway 1 1 Death of the Transformer 3 2 Desire More 19 3 Create Opportunity 43 Part II From Cheese Cutter to Factory Owner 67 4 Learn to Pivot 69 5 Doing Business with the Amish 89 6 Say Cheese 97 Part III Living the American Dream 111 7 Expulsion and Reinvention 113 8 Shooting Pigeons 141 9 One Last Cheese 147 Part IV Betrayal and Grace 165 10 Big Money 167 11 Betrayal 191 12 Fighting for My Life 209 13 Four Days in Court 219 14 Prison Days and Finding Grace 233 Epilogue: Key Lessons for Entrepreneurs 241 About the Author 249 Index 251
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Random House USA Inc Save Me the Plums
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Tyndale House Publishers QUIET STRENGTH PB The Principles Practices
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National Geographic Society The Catch Me If You Can
Book SynopsisIn this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections. It was a daunting task. But Jessica Nabongo, the beloved voice behind the popular website The Catch Me if You Can, made it happen, completing her journey to all 195 UN-recognized countries in the world in October 2019. Now, in this one-of-a-kind memoir, she reveals her top 100 destinations from her global adventure. Beautifully illustrated with Nabongo's own photography, the book documents her remarkable experiences in each country, including: A harrowing scooter accident in Nauru, the world’s least visited country, Seeing the life and community swarming around the Hazrat Ali Mazar mosque in Afghanistan, Horse
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Thorndike Striving Reader Night A Memoir
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Chronicle Books Scarred
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd TwentySeven Letters to My Daughter
Book SynopsisWhen death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child. As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and - above all - her family. The kind of people who weren't dissuaded by little things like cancer. Or war. Or loss. Or a charging elephant. This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves.
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Amazon Publishing COMING CLEAN
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Tyndale House Publishers A Sea Between Us
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Amazon Publishing Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary memoir of one woman’s fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside São Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger brother were suddenly put up for adoption. When one door closed on the only life Christiana had ever known and on the woman who protected her with all her heart, a new one opened. As Christina Rickardsson, she’s raised by caring adoptive parents in Sweden, far from the despairing favelas of her childhood. Accomplished and outwardly “normal,” Christina is also filled with rage over what she’s lost and having to adapt to a new reality while struggling with the traumas of her youth. When her world falls apart again as an adult, Christina returns to Brazil to finally confront her past and unlock the truth of what really happened to Christiana Mara Coelho. A memoir of two selves, Never Stop Walking is the moving story of the profound love between families and one woman’s journey from grief and loss to survival and self-discovery.Trade Review“Both candid and compelling, Rickardsson’s story is not only about a woman seeking to heal the fractures inherent in a transnational identity; it is also a moving meditation on poverty, injustice, and the meaning of family. A thought-provoking and humane memoir of survival and self-discovery.” —Kirkus Reviews “A haunting story of balancing identities, Rickardsson’s debut is an unforgettable meditation on the weight of early childhood trauma and recovery.” —Booklist
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Amazon Publishing Stray: Memoir of a Runaway
Book SynopsisBrutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself. After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and survival—whatever she is heading toward has to be better than what she is leaving behind. Struggling with her inner demons, Tanya must learn to take care of herself during two chaotic years in the working-class mill town of Port Alberni, followed by the early-nineties underground goth scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. She finds a chosen family in her fellow misfits, and the bond they form is fierce and unflinching. Told with raw honesty and strength, Stray reveals Tanya’s fight to embrace the vulnerable, beguiling parts of herself and heal the wounds of her past as she forges her own path to a new life.
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Random House USA Inc My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and
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Penguin Books Ltd On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living
Book Synopsis“[A] powerful account of hearing loss and learning to communicate in a new way—through yoga, gratitude and radical honesty.” —People, “The Best New Books” Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she finally left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said yes to her first workshop, it was a choice that changed her life. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. Since then, she has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told “I got you.” Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of “I am not enough.” Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Eat a Peach: A Memoir
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Fortune, Parade, The New York Public Library, Garden & GunIn 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know it at the time—and certainly Chang would have bet against himself—but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his life, was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, “What if the underground could become the mainstream?” Chang grew up the youngest son of a deeply religious Korean American family in Virginia. Graduating college aimless and depressed, he fled the States for Japan, hoping to find some sense of belonging. While teaching English in a backwater town, he experienced the highs of his first full-blown manic episode, and began to think that the cooking and sharing of food could give him both purpose and agency in his life. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his profession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.
£22.40
Crown Currency Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, models—repeat. But 10 years in, desperately unhappy and morally bankrupt, he asked himself, "What would the exact opposite of my life look like?" Walking away from everything, Harrison spent the next 16 months on a hospital ship in West Africa and discovered his true calling. In 2006, with no money and less than no experience, Harrison founded charity: water. Today, his organization has raised over $400 million to bring clean drinking water to more than 10 million people around the globe.In Thirst, Harrison recounts the twists and turns that built charity: water into one of the most trusted and admired nonprofits in the world. Renowned for its 100% donation model, bold storytelling, imaginative branding, and radical commitment to transparency, charity: water has disrupted how social entrepreneurs work while inspiring millions of people to join its mission of bringing clean water to everyone on the planet within our lifetime.In the tradition of such bestselling books as Shoe Dog and Mountains Beyond Mountains, Thirst is a riveting account of how to build a better charity, a better business, a better life—and a gritty tale that proves it’s never too late to make a change.100% of the author’s net proceeds from Thirst will go to fund charity: water projects around the world.
£17.00
Little, Brown & Company The Program
Book SynopsisAs seen in the HBO docuseries THE VOW: A jaw-dropping insider look into the world of the so-called "Hollywood Sex Cult" NXIVM chronicling the rise of enigmatic cult leader, Keith Raniere, from its "Patient Zero," his former girlfriend and test subject for his coercive control techniques. Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology. But where did Keith Raniere begin? Enter Toni Natalie, Keith''s Patient Zero, the first one indoctrinated into Raniere''s methodology and the first one to escape. THE PROGRAM begins with the origin story of NXIVM, follows its rise to international prominence, and takes the reader into the downfall of Raniere through Toni''s eyes. During this time she bore witness to the evolution of his methodology, including his use of sex, blackmail, and employment of psychological tools such as neuro-linguistic programming to control and punish those who would not heed his wishes. She uniquely details the fortunes lost and the lives left in disarray that she witnessed contemporaneously, including members of DOS, a group of women coerced into sexual acts under the guise of a "women''s empowerment" inner circle, whom Raniere exercised extreme control over directly and through his lieutenants. But far from being a victim''s story, in the spirit of Erin Brockovich, Toni''s is a nuanced narrative of a multi-dimensional woman saving herself, and then working tirelessly to help other women do the same for themselves. Today, Toni is happy, reunited with her son, and surrounded by friends and family--it is this perspective that makes her such a unique storyteller.
£22.40
Grand Central Publishing Last Stop Auschwitz: My Diary of Survival in
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£16.14
Little, Brown & Company Coal Miner's Daughter
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£999.99
Grand Central Publishing Illegally Yours: A Memoir
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£16.14
Grand Central Publishing Coconut: A Black Girl, a White Foster Family, and
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£11.69
Grand Central Publishing Walk the Blue Line: Real Cops, True Stories
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£17.59
