Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022

Biographical Nonfiction April 2022 LIST NO: 46341

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 In On the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy Shawn Levy

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EAN 9780385545785 This is the story of a group of113983 unforgettable women who knocked down the doors of stand-up comedy so other women could get a shot. It spans decades, from Moms Mabley's rise in Black vaudeville between the World Wars, to the roadhouse ribaldry of Belle Barth and Rusty Warren in the 1950s and '60s, to Elaine May's co-invention of improv comedy, to Joan Rivers's and Phyllis Diller's ferocious ascent to mainstream stardom.

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True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson Kostya Kennedy 101178 EAN 9781250274045 An unconventional biography, focusing on four transformative years in Robinson's athletic and public life: 1946, 1949, 1956, and 1972. These four crucial years offer a unique vision of Robinson as a player, a father and husband, and a civil rights hero a new window on a complex man, tied to the 50th anniversary of his passing and the 75th anniversary of his professional baseball debut.

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Blood and Fire: the Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling's Original Sheik Brian R. Solomon During the 1950s, 1960s, and110547 1970s, he drew record crowds everywhere he went and left a trail of burned and bloody opponents in his wake. He was The Sheik: the mysterious and terrifying madman from Syria whose wanton destruction and mayhem are the stuff of wrestling legend. But what those legions of fans screaming for his head never knew was that The Sheik was really Eddie Farhat. From Lansing, Michigan, and the son of Arab immigrants, Farhat served his country proudly in World War II and was fulfilling the American dream through hard work and tireless dedication to his craft.

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Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos...

Robert Mazur EAN 9781542032971 Three years after undercover 177146 agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel, he reemerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. On US soil, drug money en route to Mazur was seized. Refusing to acknowledge the threats ahead, Mazur was obsessed with seeing the mission through to its treacherous end: expose the Cali cartel, find out who betrayed him, and escape with his life.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Age of Astonishment: John Morris in the Miracle Century From the Civil War to the Cold War Bill Morris an e

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157408 EAN 9781643137049 John Morris was born into a slave-owning Virginia family during the Civil War, and he died at the peak of the Cold War. Though he was from a slave-owning family, he changed his views as he grew into adulthood, unhappily witnessed the horrors of Jim Crow ,and worked against it. An acclaimed journalist and novelist, Bill Morris makes history personal in 'The Age of Astonishment,' painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing the life of one man who lived through it.

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Yoko Ono: An Artful Life Donald Brackett

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184193 EANOno has fascinated us as one of the world's most 9781989555583 For more than sixty years, Yoko innovative, radical artists. Through it all, and for decades after Lennon's tragic death, she remained defiantly herself. 'Yoko Ono: An Artful Life' charts her journey of personal turmoil, artistic evolution, and activism, and at last tells her iconic story on her own terms.

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Queen of the Court: the Extraordinary Life of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Madeleine Blais In August 1939, Alice Marble120056 graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the legendary Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open - an unprecedented feat, then and now. Today, one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. 'Queen of the Court' places her back on center stage.

Apr-2022 atlantic monthly press

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Book of Grief and Hamburgers Stuart Ross A writer friend once pointed 110548 out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and 'real' in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Tasha: A Son's Memoir Brian Morton

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183927 EAN with dark humour, 'Tasha' is an exploration of 9781982178932 Clear-eyed, loving, and brimming what sons learn from their mothers, a stark look at the impossible task of caring for an elderly parent in a country whose unofficial motto is 'you're on your own,' and a meditation on the treacherous business at the heart of every family - the business of trying to honour ourselves without forsaking our parents, and our parents without forsaking ourselves. Above all, 'Tasha' is a vivid and surprising portrait of an unforgettable woman.

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Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting...

Danica Roem 120378 EAN 9780593296554 Danica Roem made national headlines when - as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer - she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths.

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King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria Edmund Richardson an 101178 EAN like a thriller, 'The King's Shadow' is the 9781250278593 Impeccably researched, and written extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies.

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Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey Fred Haise

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113056 EAN 9781588347138 Written with Bill Moore. Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon. Haise brings readers into the heart of his experience on the challenging mission - considered NASA's finest hour - and reflects on his life and career as an Apollo astronaut.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Deaf Utopia: A Memoir and a Love Letter to a Way of Life Nyle DiMarco

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113700 EAN 9780063062351 'Deaf Utopia' is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem - a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle's primary language. Through his stories and those of his Deaf brothers, parents, and grandparents, Nyle opens many windows into the Deaf experience.

Apr-2022 william morrow

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Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life Brianna Madia 178968 EAN 9780063047983 A young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. It is the true story of a woman learning and unlearning, from backroads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again... this time, on purpose.

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Letters to Gwen John Celia Paul EAN 9781681376400 This book centres on a series138839 of letters addressed to the Welsh painter Gwen John (1876-1939), who has long been a tutelary spirit for Celia Paul. It is at once an intimate correspondence, an illuminating portrait of two painters (including full-colour plates of both artists' work), and a writer/artist's daybook, describing Paul's first exhibitions in America, her search for new forms, her husband's diagnosis of cancer, and the onset of the global pandemic.

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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader Mark Hodkinson 165591 EANthe terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just 9781786899972 Mark Hodkinson grew up among one book. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers. Today, Mark is an author, journalist, and publisher. In recounting his own life-long love affair with books, Mark tells the story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades, starting with the wave of working-class writers in the 1950s and 60s, where he saw himself reflected in books for the first time.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel Marc Raboy

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Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India Jyoti Thottam an

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154600 EAN idealist, her determination to make a difference in 9781487010546 The biography of a radical young the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina's descent into rightwing madness. Raboy pursues her story not only to learn what happened when the post-Peron government in Argentina turned to state terror but also to understand the lives of those who risked everything to oppose it.

Apr-2022 house of anansi press inc

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Growing Up Biden: A Memoir Valerie Biden Owens EAN 9781250821768 A memoir from Valerie Biden182269 Owens, Joe Biden's younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of turmoil and division.

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120378 EAN 9780525522355 The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same. Thottam draws upon twenty years' worth of research to bring to life the hopes, struggles, and accomplishments of these ordinary women - both American and Indian - who succeeded against the odds during the tumult and trauma of the years after World War II and Partition.

Apr-2022 viking

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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau Ben Shattuck

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153568 EANHenry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to 9781953534040 On an autumn morning in 1849, walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. Over years of following Thoreau, Shattuck finds himself uncovering new insights about family, love, friendship, and fatherhood, and understanding more deeply the lessons walking can offer through life's changing seasons.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Riverman: An American Odyssey Ben McGrath

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107570 EAN the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, 9780451494009 For decades, Dick Conant paddled Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people.

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12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness Charlie Corbett 102957 EAN Charlie Corbett felt trapped by his pain. He took 9781405949217 After the tragic loss of his mother, to the countryside in search of solace. There, he heard the soaring, cascading song of the skylark. Weaving his journey through grief with a remarkable portrait of the birds living right on our doorstep, '12 Birds to Save Your Life' is an invitation to stop, step outside, and listen.

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Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir Wil Wheaton EAN 9780063080478 Celebrated actor, personality,113700 and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom. From his times on the Enterprise to his struggles with depression to his starting a family and finding his passion - writing - Wil Wheaton is someone whose life is both a cautionary tale and a story of finding one's true purpose that should resonate with fans and aspiring artists alike.

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Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives Mary Laura Philpott EAN 9781982160784 A poignant and powerful new135654 memoir that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humour and hope. Philpott returns in her distinctive voice to explore our protective instincts, the ways we continue to grow up long after we're grown, and the limits - both tragic and hilarious - of the human body and mind.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee Joanna Lumley an

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100122 EAN Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee including 9781529375923 A sparkling celebration of Queen special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan, Joanna Lumley.

Apr-2022 hodder & stoughton

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Life and Legacy of Muriel Stanley Venne: A Metis Matriarch Christine Mowat 120993 Written over the course of four years of interviews and research, 'The Life and Legacy of Muriel Stanley Venne' is the first authorized biography of this remarkable Metis matriarch and community leader. Born in Lamont, Alberta, as the oldest of ten children, Venne has dedicated her life to promoting the rights of Indigenous women.

Venne's crowning achievement has been the founding of the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women (IAAW), the Edmonton-based nonprofit organization that she ran for a quarter of a century.

Apr-2022 heritage house

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Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey...

Steph Jagger 169983 EAN who loved and raised her slips away before 9781250261830 Steph Jagger watches as the woman getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it. A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, 'Everything Left to Remember' brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.

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Tough: My Journey to True Power Terry Crews 107 EAN 9780593329801 Terry Crews spent decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and bravado. But his fixation with appearing outwardly tough eventually turned into an exhausting performance in which repressing his emotions let them get the better of him - leading him into addiction and threatening the most important relationships in his life. Now Crews is sharing the raw, never-before-told story of his quest to find the true meaning of toughness.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Using Power Well: Bob Williams and the Making of British Columbia Bob Williams

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117653 Bevan. Former provincial politician Bob Written with Benjamin Isitt; Thomas Williams tells his atypical life story: beginning with his childhood in the working-class east end of Vancouver, Williams goes on to describe his early years as a planner in Delta, BC, his political life on Vancouver City Council, and in the BC Legislature. A straight shooter who refuses to mince words, Williams advocates in this highly readable and colourful book for a bottom-up approach to politics and public policy, bypassing bureaucracy in order to use power well.

Apr-2022 nightwood editions

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Len and Cub: A Queer History Meredith J. Batt 162447 EAN 'Len' Keith and Joseph 'Cub' Coates grew up in 9781773102641 Written with Dusty Green. Leonard the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relationship. Their story is one of the oldest photographic records of a same-sex couple in the Maritimes.

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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 Alice Walker 171962 EANfirst time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are 9781476773155 Edited by Valerie Boyd. For the gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of 'The Color Purple.' She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world.

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Hello, Molly: a Memoir Molly Shannon 100969 EAN hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience 9780063056237 A candid, compulsively readable, and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. Filled with behind-the-scenes stories involving everyone from Whitney Houston to Adam Sandler to Monica Lewinsky, many told for the first time here, 'Hello, Molly!' spans Molly's time on Saturday Night Live - where she starred alongside Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Cheri Oteri, Tracy Morgan, and Jimmy Fallon, among many others.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Easy Beauty: A Memoir Chloe Cooper Jones

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183927 EAN of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in 9781982151997 From the bars and domestic spaces Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyonce concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability, and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths.

Apr-2022 avid reader press / simon & schust

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Shine Bright: a Personal History of Black Women in Pop Danyel Smith 189838 EANAmerica's greatest cultural contribution to the 9780593132715 American pop music is arguably world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country's founding. A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, 'Shine Bright' is Smith's intimate history of Black women's music as the foundational story of American pop.

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Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life Delia Ephron 162331 EANlike 'You've Got Mail' tells her own late-in-life love 9780316267656 The writer of romantic comedies story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love.

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My Ackee Tree: A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen Suzanne Barr 121516 EANSuzanne Barr's journey to become a chef started 9780735239500 Written with Suzanne Hancock. when she was 30. Fast-forward to the summer of 2017 when Suzanne became the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. Her Rite of Passage Menu, as she called it, changed her. It started her on a journey that has brought her closer to her mother, to her ancestors, and to her Jamaican heritage.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor Tina Brown

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EAN 9780385695145 Picking up where 'The Diana101333 Chronicles' left off, 'The Palace Papers' reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. "Never again," became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. Despite the fragile monarchy's best efforts, "never again" seems fast approaching. Full of powerful revelations, nuanced details, and searing insight, 'The Palace Papers' will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.

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Finding Me: A Memoir Viola Davis EAN 9780063037328 Viola Davis' story, in her own178968 words, spanning her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.

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Girl In The Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Anais Granofsky EAN 9781443458511 'The Girl in the Middle' is the128203 story of a child who spends her life navigating between two very different worlds. Alone, Anais and her mother teetered on the poverty line, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived a twenty-minute car ride away on the mansion-lined Bridle Path. As Anais grows up, she spends weekends having lunch with her grandmother by the pool, while during the week, she and her mother often don't know where their next meal will come from. This book offers a powerful lens to explore how two families, one white and one Black, faced systemic oppression spanning multiple generations and came out at opposite economic classes - and how they clashed when they shared a granddaughter.

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever...

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EAN 9780593136713 With original puzzles by Greg103570 Pliska. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs - author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder - set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. Whether you're puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you'll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker - for these are certainly puzzling times.

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Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady,...

Grant Lawrence 100741 It's been over a decade since renowned broadcaster and indie rock musician Grant Lawrence launched his writing career with the award-winning 'Adventures in Solitude,' yet some things never change - including the winding Sunshine Coast Highway, close calls at the BC Ferries ticket office, and carsick children. But this time, Lawrence returns as a husband and father, not as the vomiting and nerdy kid dragged along by his athletic and unflappable parents. From a hilarious, heartfelt, and slightly wiser voice comes a momentous story of time, family, and place whirling around one increasingly ramshackle cabin on a beautiful and not-at-all-desolate coast.

Apr-2022 harbour publishing

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Red Zone: A Love Story Chloe Caldwell 126451 EAN 9781593766993 'The Red Zone' is a candid, revelatory memoir for anyone grappling with controversial medical diagnoses and labels of all kinds. It's also about love: how challenging it can be, how it reveals your weaknesses and wounds, and how, if you allow it, it will push you to grow and change.

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So You Girls Remember That: Memoir of a Haida Elder Gaadgas Nora Bellis 100741 This is an oral history of a Haida Elder, Naanii Nora, who lived from 1902 to 1997.

A collaborative effort, this project was initiated and guided by Charlie Bellis and Maureen McNamara and was years in the making. The resulting book, compiled by Jenny Nelson, is a window into Nora's life and her family.

Apr-2022 harbour publishing

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$22.95

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4376766

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Biographical Nonfiction - April 2022 Modern Whore: A Memoir Andrea Werhun

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EAN 9780771098413 A striking memoir by Andrea185439 Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea's sex work career in lush photography and powerful words - in all its slippery, sexy, silly, and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea doesn't shy away from the serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take, and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them.

Apr-2022 strange light

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$45.00

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4335201

Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed Marsha Lederman 111919 EAN 9780771049378 Marsha Lederman always knew her parents were different, and at five, she learned why: in the kitchen, her mother sat her down and explained about the Holocaust.

Decades later, her parents dead and a mother to her own young son, Marsha is reeling in the wake of her divorce. She wants her parents' help, but in their absence, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma that shaped them, and she begins her own journey into the past, to tell her parents' stories of loss and survival.

Apr-2022 mcclelland & stewart

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$35.00

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4324789

Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie Julia Haart EAN 9780593239162 A riveting, inspiring memoir 103570 of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Propulsive and unforgettable, Haart's story is the journey from a world of no to a world of yes, and an inspiration for women everywhere to find their freedom, their purpose, and their voice.

Apr-2022 crown

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$38.99

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4294253

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