Tag: Memoir
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THE EDUCATION OF KENDRICK PERKINS, A MEMOIR by KENDRICK PERKINS with SETH ROGOFF
Perkins’ riveting stories about the NBA, his upbringing and social justice will make this book impossible to put down.” — Emmanuel Acho, New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man We know Kendrick as an NBA player and ESPN commentator, but the same style he brings to those endeavors is the same blunt, unvarnished…
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James Patterson by James Patterson, The Stories of My Life
How did a boy from small-town New York become one of the world’s most successful writers? James Patterson is one of the most prolific writers I have had the pleasure of reading. But that wasn’t always the case. When I finished reading this memoir, I couldn’t help but think of all the people we perceive…
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THE OTHER DR. GILMER by BENJAMIN GILMER
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system–a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. This is a true-crime as well as a biography. Dr.Benjamin Gilmer…
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Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. I loved that description. It is perfect for this beautifully written memoir. The Chinese word for America, Mei Guo, translates to “beautiful country”. And when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York in 1994, coming with…
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Three Dreamers A Memoir of Family by LORENZO CARCATERRA
“By the time you reach my age,” he writes, “you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead.” From the author of Sleepers and an incredible body of work, Carcaterra takes us down a totally different road with Three Dreamers. This is the homage to the three women in his…
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BLACK WIDOW by Leslie Gray Streeter
Leslie Gray Streeter offers us a portrait of widowhood we haven’t seen before, one that “will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page” (James Patterson). Palm Beach Post columnist Leslie Gray Streeter entered her late thirties with her husband Scott, moving in together and starting the process of adopting a baby. Yes,…
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Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir by Jake Shears
In the bestselling tradition of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, and Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, the lead singer of the multiplatinum-selling band Scissor Sisters explores his evolution as a young artist: coming of age in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona, his entry into New York City’s electrifying, ever-changing music scene,…
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