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Care and Feeding - A Memoir
Date added:
Feb 13, 2025
Care and Feeding - A Memoir

 
Say Everything - A Memoir
Date added:
Feb 10, 2025
Say Everything - A Memoir

 
 
Tar Hollow Trans - Essays
Date added:
Feb 3, 2025
Tar Hollow Trans - Essays

 
Becoming spectacular - the rhythm of resilience from the first African American Rockette

In 1987, the 63-year color barrier at Radio City was finally broken by one brave and tenacious woman. When she arrived, Jennifer Jones was met with a fierce resistance that she details in this memoir.

 
No fault - a memoir of romance and divorce

"An intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorce. Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her "husbands." As a pre-teen, she answered the phones for her mother's mediation and marriage counseling practice and typed out the paperwork for couples in the process of leaving each other. She grew up with the sense that divorce was an outcome to both resist and desire, a

 
American poison - a deadly invention and the woman who battled for environmental justice

"From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry-and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America. At noon on October 27, 1924, a factory worker was admitted to a hospital in New York City, suffering from hallucinations and convulsions. Before breakfast the next day, he was dead. Alice Hamilton was determined t

 
Who I Always Was - A Memoir
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
Who I Always Was - A Memoir

 
When You're Ready - A Love Story
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
When You're Ready - A Love Story

 
Mainline Mama
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
Mainline Mama

 
The Loves of My Life - A Sex Memoir
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
The Loves of My Life - A Sex Memoir

 
Source code - my beginnings
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
Source code - my beginnings

The software giant explores his personal journey, recounting his early influences, friendships, family and first steps in computing that paved the way for his revolutionary career and later philanthropic focus, offering an intimate look at the experiences that shaped him.

 
Last seen - the enduring search by formerly enslaved people to find their lost families

"Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery"--

 
Fearless and free - a memoir
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
Fearless and free - a memoir

"Published in English for the first time, this is the memoir of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker"--

 
After the North Pole - a story of survival, mythmaking, and melting ice

A memoir from the Norwegian explorer recounts his 58-day ski journey to the North Pole, offering a gripping adventure story and a deep reflection on nature, human resilience and the profound significance of this remote region.

 
When you're ready - a love story
Date added:
Jan 30, 2025
When you're ready - a love story

"Kareem Rosser and Lee Lee Jones were young, beautiful, and deeply in love. Their love was a real-world romance that felt like a fairy tale: Kareem was raised in the Bottom--one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Philadelphia--while Lee Lee was raised in the wealth of the Pennsylvania suburbs. They met and fell in love in the world of horses: Kareem, a nationally ranked polo player and Lee Lee, a legacy equestrian. The world was at their feet, a lifetime of joy and adventure ahead of them

 

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