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• The Tell

  a Memoir

  Griffin, Amy (Businesswoman),

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  In her search for the truth, to understand and begin to recover from buried childhood trauma, Griffin interrogates the pursuit of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drives so many women, asking, when, in our path from girlhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memorial Days

  Brooks, Geraldine,

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  A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

• Mark Twain

  Chernow, Ron,

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  In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer's talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.

• Source Code

  My Beginnings

  Gates, Bill, 1955-

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  Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It's the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits.

• Careless People

  a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

  Wynn-Williams, Sarah,

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  A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Food for Thought

  Essays & Ruminations

  Brown, Alton, 1962-

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  With his whip-smart and engaging voice, Brown explores everything from wrestling a dumpster full of dough to culinary cultural appropriation to his ultimate quest for the perfect roast chicken.

• How to Lose Your Mother

  a Daughter's Memoir

  Jong-Fast, Molly, 1978-

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  From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother's encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood.

• The Paris Girl

  the Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

  White, Francelle Bradford,

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  Movingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old

  Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

  Shields, Brooke, 1965-

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  By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanizing, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.

• I Regret Almost Everything

  McNally, Keith, 1951-

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  The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis.