Biographical Nonfiction - January 2022

Biographical Nonfiction January 2022 LIST NO: 45912

Suggested Due Date: January 1, 2023 © Copyright January 2022

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41-Love Thomas , Scarlett

an e uk At forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. Then, for the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight became nearly impossible. So instead she decided to regress, to go back to the thing she'd loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned: tennis.

Jan-2022 Counterpoint 4175207 9781640094765 (ha) $35.00 126698 Jan-2022 EAN 9781640094765 a9781640094765b

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Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun an e us Shields , Charles J. The moving story of the life of the woman behind 'A Raisin in the Sun,' the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the author of 'Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee.' Jan-2022 Henry Holt and Co. 3838597 9781250205537 (ha) $39.99 163451 Jan-2022 EAN 9781250205537 a9781250205537b

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Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman an e us Pollack , Eileen Eileen is nine and too smart for the third grade, but when the clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, she refuses. After all, she doesn't accept gifts from strangers. This is the start of a love-hate relationship with the rules as they were laid out for a girl in 1960s upstate New York - and as they persist in some form today.

Jan-2022 Delphinium 4292676 9781953002075 (ha) $34.50 186423 Jan-2022 EAN 9781953002075 a9781953002075b

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Sybil and Cyril: Cutting Through Time Uglow , Jenny

an e cn In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time they looked back, to medieval myths and early music, 106350 to country ways disappearing from sight.

Jan-2022 Faber & Faber 4162267 9780571354153 (ha) $39.95 Jan-2022 EAN 9780571354153 a9780571354153b

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Things I Should Have Said Spears , Jamie Lynn

an e us Despite growing up in one of America's most tabloid-famous families, Jamie Lynn Spears has never told her story in her own words. In this book, she talks frankly about the highs and lows, sharing what it was like traveling the world as a kid, how she moved into acting and performing herself, what life as a child star took from her, and the life-changing reality of becoming a teen 183604 mom.

Jan-2022 Worthy 4288016 9781546001027 (ha) $33.00 Jan-2022 EAN 9781546001027 a9781546001027b

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Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths Lindsay , Rachel

an e us A candid, witty, and inspiring collection of essays from the first Black Bachelorette, exploring everything from relationships and love to politics and race.

Jan-2022 Ballantine Books 4224093 9780593357071 (ha) $35.00 106938 Jan-2022 EAN 9780593357071 a9780593357071b

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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts an e uk Akkerman , Nadine Labelled a spendthrift more interested in the theatre and her pet monkeys than politics or her children, and long pitied as 'The Winter Queen', the direct ancestor of Elizabeth II was widely misunderstood. Akkerman's biography reveals an altogether different woman, painting a vivid picture of a queen forged in the white heat of European conflict.

Jan-2022 Oxford University Press 4286555 9780199668304 (ha) $28.95 105979 Jan-2022 EAN 9780199668304 a9780199668304b

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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home Attenberg , Jami

an e us As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest, Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Frustrated by quotidian jobs and hungry for inspiration and fresh experiences, her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality, otherworldliness, and what we leave behind.

Jan-2022 Ecco Press 4197118 9780063039797 (ha) $34.99 100969 Jan-2022 EAN 9780063039797 a9780063039797b

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Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller Cantor , Paul

an e us Malcolm James McCormick was born on January 19, 1992. He began making music at a young age and by fifteen was already releasing mixtapes. One of the first true viral superstars, his early records earned him a rabid legion of die-hard fans - as well as a few noteworthy detractors. But despite his undeniable success, Miller was plagued by struggles with substance abuse and 178329 depression, both of which fueled his raw and genre-defying music yet ultimately led to his demise.

Jan-2022 Abrams Press 4425075 9781419748004 (ha) $33.00 Jan-2022 a9781419748004b

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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness an e us Coates , Laura When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us.

But she quickly realized that even with the best intentions, "the pursuit of justice creates injustice." Through Coates's experiences, we see that no matter how fair you try to fight, being Black, a woman, and a mother are identities often at odds in the justice 101164 system.

Jan-2022 Simon & Schuster 4292290 9781982173760 (ha) $36.00 Jan-2022 EAN 9781982173760 a9781982173760b

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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History Ypi , Lea

an e uk With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colourful sort - here recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the world's most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the 117174 United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.

Jan-2022 WW Norton 4305682 9780393867732 (ha) $36.95 Jan-2022 EAN 9780393867732 a9780393867732b

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Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today an e us Bertinelli , Valerie Valerie Bertinelli shares an inspiring blueprint that offers women in midlife support and hope. She shares personal stories that many women will relate to from her past decade: hitting her fifties, taking care of her dying mother, the evolving relationship with her husband, a career change, her relationship with food, and the battle to believe in herself as she is.

Jan-2022 Mariner Books 4117653 9780358567363 (ha) $39.00 132843 Jan-2022 EAN 9780358567363 a9780358567363b

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Dante: A Life Barbero , Alessandro

an e it Barbero brings the legendary author's Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city, and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging to the world of writers and nobles, Dante brings us into the dark corridors of politics where ideals are shattered by rampant corruption, and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the 157408 extraordinary colour and variety of the countryside, the metropolises, and the knightly courts.

Jan-2022 Pegasus Books 4291688 9781643139135 (ha) $38.95 Jan-2022 EAN 9781643139135 a9781643139135b

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Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom Senghor , Shaka

an e us In this collection of beautifully written letters to his sons Jay and Sekou, Senghor traces his journey as a Black man in America and unpacks the toxic and misguided messages about masculinity, mental health, love, and success that boys learn from an early age.

Jan-2022 Convergent Books 4208684 9780593238011 (ha) $36.00 179202 Jan-2022 EAN 9780593238011 a9780593238011b

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Home in the World: A Memoir Sen , Amartya

an e id With characteristic moral clarity and compassion, Sen reflects on the cataclysmic events that tore his world asunder, from the Bengal famine of 1943 to the struggle for Indian independence against colonial tyranny - and the outbreak of political violence that accompanied the end of British rule.

Jan-2022 Liveright 4305709 9781324091615 (ha) $40.00 103955 Jan-2022 EAN 9781324091615 a9781324091615b

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This Will Be Funny Later an e us Pentland , Jenny In this scathingly funny and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as the daughter of television star Roseanne, and how she navigated the turmoil, eventually finding her own path. Now happily married and raising five sons on a farm, Pentland has worked tirelessly to create the stable family she never had, while coming to terms at last with her deep-seated 120856 anxiety.

Jan-2022 Harper 4203092 9780062962928 (ha) $34.99 Jan-2022 EAN 9780062962928 a9780062962928b

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Rise: My Story Vonn , Lindsey

an e us The first ever memoir from the most decorated female skier of all time - Lindsey Vonn - revealing never-before-told stories of her life in the fast lane, her struggle with depression, and the bold decisions that helped her break down barriers on and off the slopes.

Jan-2022 Dey Street Books 3699398 9780062889447 (ha) $35.99 174791 Jan-2022 EAN 9780062889447 a9780062889447b

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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy Raskin , Jamie

an e us In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family's - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in the American Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.

Jan-2022 Harper 4342674 9780063209787 (ha) $34.99 120856 Jan-2022 EAN 9780063209787 a9780063209787b

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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom an e us Bernstein , Carl In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of 'All the President's Men' and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital - a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.

Jan-2022 Henry Holt and Co. 3995595 9781627791502 (ha) $39.99 163451 Jan-2022 EAN 9781627791502 a9781627791502b

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Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard Eliot , Marc

an e us The extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary research, sharp detail, and ample anecdotal material; enriched and deepened by over 100 new and far-ranging interviews. This book explores the uniquely American life of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks, bound for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who found 171044 redemption through the music of 'the common man.'

Jan-2022 Hachette Books 4170268 9780306923210 (ha) $38.00 Jan-2022 EAN 9780306923210 a9780306923210b

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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat Cox , Brian

an e uk The incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Logan Roy of 'Succession', from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotland to a prolific career across theatre, film, and television. Rich in emotion and meaning, with plenty of laughs along the way, this seminal autobiography captures both Cox's distinctive voice and his very soul.

Jan-2022 Grand Central Publishing 4176744 9781538707296 (ha) $37.00 156116 Jan-2022 EAN 9781538707296 a9781538707296b

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Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy Krantz , Rachel

an e us Rachel Krantz interviewed scientists, psychologists, and people living and loving outside the mainstream as she searched to understand what non-monogamy would do to her heart, her mind, and her life. Rachel casts new light on the unique ways coercion and gaslighting manifest in open relationships, and finds herself wondering what liberation really looks like.

Jan-2022 Harmony/Rodale 4226931 9780593139554 (ha) $37.00 188423 Jan-2022 EAN 9780593139554 a9780593139554b

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Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality an e us Sielski , Mike Kobe Bryant's death in January 2020 did more than rattle the worlds of sports and celebrity. The tragedy of that helicopter crash, which also took the life of his daughter Gianna, unveiled the full breadth and depth of his influence on our culture, and by tracing and telling the oft-forgotten and lesser-known story of his early life, 'The Rise' promises to provide an insight into Kobe that no 101178 other analysis has.

Jan-2022 St. Martin's Press 4208250 9781250275721 (ha) $39.99 Jan-2022 EAN 9781250275721 a9781250275721b

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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century Stevens , Dana

an e us Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed to be the most violent in vaudeville. Even through his dark middle years as a severely depressed alcoholic finding work on the margins of show business, Keaton's life had a way of reflecting the changes going on in the world around him. Far more than a biography or a work of film history, this is a wide-ranging meditation on modernity that paints a complex portrait of a 135654 one-of-a-kind artist.

Jan-2022 Atria Books 3250569 9781501134197 (ha) $39.99 Jan-2022 EAN 9781501134197 a9781501134197b

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Angela Davis: An Autobiography Davis , Angela

an e us First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, 'An Autobiography' is a powerful and commanding account of Angela Davis' early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the US 163612 Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

Jan-2022 Haymarket Books 4185672 9781642595680 (ha) $40.50 Jan-2022 a9781642595680b

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Lost and Found an e us Schulz , Kathryn Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Kathryn met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. This book weaves together their love story with Kathryn's story of losing her father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and found and the ways life dispenses wretchedness and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once. So much has been written about loss 152066 and Schulz writes with painful clarity about the vicissitudes of grieving her father - but here she also writes about the vital phenomenon of finding.

Jan-2022 Bond Street Books 4200398 9780385693868 (ha) $34.00 Jan-2022 EAN 9780385693868 a9780385693868b

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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up an e uk Evaristo , Bernardine Evaristo's astonishing debut is a vibrant and inspirational account of her life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic humour, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings, with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother, tells the story of how she helped set up 178145 Britain's first Black women's theatre company, and recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and aging.

Jan-2022 Grove Atlantic 4305485 9780802158901 (ha) $37.95 Jan-2022 a9780802158901b

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Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal and the Missing Millions Robertson , Jennifer

an e cn Written with Stephen Kimber. Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage.

Still only twenty-six, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten, a man she would not normally have considered - too young and not her type - but found she'd met her match. Eccentric but funny and kind, Cotten turned out to be a bitcoin wizard 162297and who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The Quadriga scandal touched off major investment criminal investigations, not to mention Internet rumours circulating on dark message boards. It became clear that Cotten had gambled away about $100 million of the funds entrusted to him for investment in his many schemes, leaving Robertson holding the bag.

Jan-2022 HarperCollins Publishers 4292675 9781443463904 (pb) $24.99 Jan-2022 EAN 9781443463904 a9781443463904b

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