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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In her memoir, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she's...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The paranormal investigator and star of the smash hit show Ghost Hunters TV shares a collection of his most memorable encounters and terrifying experiences with disembodied voices, mysterious dark masses, and other unexplained phenomena.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
You get to choose the life you will live. Siri Lindley wanted to be a world champion triathlete...even though she didn't know how to swim. She wanted to love and be loved...even though her father shunned her because she was gay. She wanted to savor every day and enjoy the life she'd made with her wife, her career, and her passion for horses...even though in November 2019 she was diagnosed with a rare--and usually fatal--form of acute myeloid leukemia....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived and their secluded abode became a place of enforced isolation. What was meant to be the beginning of an enriching new chapter was instead marked by uncertainty and fear. The seasons still passed, the swallows returned, the rhythms of the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to keep...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of Defense has asked us to refer to it, has been responsible...
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