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• Actress of a Certain Age

  My Twenty Year Trail to Overnight Success

  Hiller, Jeff,

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• The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam

  Lin, Lana

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• Awake

  a Memoir

  Hatmaker, Jen,

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• Baldwin

  a Love Story

  Boggs, Nicholas, 1973-

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• Black Genius

  Essays on An American Legacy

  Johnson, Tre

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• Book of Lives

  a Memoir of Sorts

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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• Bread of Angels

  Smith, Patti,

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• Dark Renaissance

  the Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

  Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

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• Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

  From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

  Demick, Barbara,

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• Desi Arnaz

  the Man Who Invented Television

  Purdum, Todd S.,

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• The Dry Season

  a Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex /

  Febos, Melissa,

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• Gertrude Stein

  An Afterlife

  Wade, Francesca,

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• The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

  a Memoir

  Case, Neko,

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• I Regret Almost Everything

  a Memoir

  McNally, Keith, 1951-

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• Indignity

  a Life Reimagined

  Ypi, Lea, 1979-

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• Joyride

  a Memoir

  Orlean, Susan,

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• Mark Twain

  Chernow, Ron,

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• A Marriage at Sea

  a True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

  Elmhirst, Sophie,

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• Matriarch

  a Memoir

  Knowles, Tina, 1954-

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• Memorial Days

  Brooks, Geraldine,

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