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• Between Two Kingdoms

  a Memoir of a Life Interrupted

  Jaouad, Suleika,

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  An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.

• Broken

  (in the Best Possible Way)

  Lawson, Jenny, 1973-

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  Jenny Lawson explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty - but also with brutal humor.

• Broken Horses

  a Memoir

  Carlile, Brandi,

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  Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art-from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John's "Honky Cat" in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crying in H Mart

  a Memoir

  Zauner, Michelle,

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  Advanced to Round Two. Michelle Zauner offers an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity in this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance.

• Just as I Am

  a Memoir

  Tyson, Cicely,

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  The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.

• My Remarkable Journey

  a Memoir

  Johnson, Katherine G.,

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  The woman at the heart of the New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film "Hidden Figures" shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer and her integral role in the early…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notes on Grief

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core.

• Somebody's Daughter

  a Memoir

  Ford, Ashley C.,

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  Ford shares the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins.

• Speak, Okinawa

  a Memoir

  Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981-

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  A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage.

• The Doctors Blackwell

  How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine

  Nimura, Janice P.,

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  The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women.