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Biographies added in the past 30 days
Mailman : my wild ride delivering the mail in Appalachia and finally finding home
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Stephen Starring Grant
Uncommon Favor : basketball, North Philly, my mother, and the life lessons I learned from all three
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Dawn Staley
Buckley : the life and the revolution that changed America
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Sam Tanenhaus
Second life : having a child in the digital age
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Amanda Hess
I regret almost everything / A Memoir
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Keith McNally
Not my type : one woman vs. a president
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E Jean Carroll
The body is a doorway : a memoir : a journey beyond healing, hope, and the human
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Sophie Strand
Desi Arnaz : the man who invented television
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Todd S Purdum
The salt stones : seasons of a shepherd's life
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Helen Whybrow
Sister, sinner : the miraculous life and mysterious disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
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Claire Hoffman
The hollow half : a memoir of bodies and borders
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Sarah Aziza
This is your mother : a memoir
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Erika J Simpson
The last secret agent : my life as a spy behind Nazi lines
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Pippa Latour
Crumb : a cartoonist's life
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Dan Nadel
Big dumb eyes : stories from a simpler mind
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Nate Bargatze
Enough : climbing toward a true self on Mount Everest
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Melissa Arnot Reid
Who knew
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Barry Diller
The acid queen : the psychedelic life and counterculture rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
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Susannah Cahalan
The acid queen : the psychedelic life and counterculture rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Susannah CahalanCopies available
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Accidentally on purpose : a memoir
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Kristen Kish
Saving five : a memoir of hope
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Amanda Nguyen
The electric kool-aid acid test
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Tom Wolfe
Walt Disney : an American original
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Bob Thomas
Frida Kahlo love letters
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Frida Kahlo
The blueberry years : a memoir of farm and family
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Jim Minick
Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
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Abby Stein
Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
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Jonathan Darman
Her lotus year : China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson
Paul FrenchCopies available
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A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
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Hakeem M Oluseyi
Leaving home at 83
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Sandra Butler
El Cid : the life and afterlife of a medieval mercenary
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Nora Berend