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English
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"An inside look at the film industry for fans, students, and aspiring professionals ��� featuring a foreword by Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning creator of The White Lotus, Mike White. This page-turning account of starting at the lowest rung on the production ladder among enormously famous & outrageously demanding people will be devoured for its insights, gossip, humor, & storytelling. Married and with a child, the author takes unpaid gigs...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In vivid vignettes, Black Thought tells the dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him--with community, friends, art, and family--each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma, and loss."--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magnetic, intensely personal debut memoir of a happily married mother's exploration of sex and relationships--outside of her marriage. Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again, she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu drinks with a friend, she met Matt, an unbelievably hot younger man. When...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe-for cinnamon rolls, of all things. When Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe, she happened to make food journalism history along with...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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From the New York times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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An Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning director, writer and producer looks back at his career, with a behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, such as Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington and Claire Danes.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 231 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A world-renowned model, advocate, entrepreneur and wife of the late Hugh Hefner provides a fascinating look behind-the-scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, revealing the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion and sharing her transformative journey to a person who finally recognized her true worth.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific importance--a colossal celestial entity. As massive as an aircraft carrier and towering as high as the iconic Empire State Building, this cosmic titan was later named Bennu. Remarkable for much more than its size, Bennu belonged to a rare breed of asteroids capable of revealing the essence of life itself. But...
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Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 305 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume
Language
English
Description
"What does a different path to success look like if you say tough titties to society's expectations? What if you are lazy, desperately approval-seeking, [poor in the romance department], and ... chronically stuck? As Laura shows through her own unconventional path to success and happiness, you can live your best life--even if you're the f-ing worst. Beyond being very funny, this book gives readers permission to be themselves--and to feel better about...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies,...
17) Breaking through
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination...
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Language
English
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"Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a centre of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was...
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