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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
A terrific, well-written biography of an American original who died too young. Recommended for midcentury enthusiasts, followers of fashion, and readers who enjoyed Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art or Julie Satow’s When Women Ran Fifth Avenue.
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
Hiller doesn’t just take the stage in his heartfelt and laugh-out-loud memoir; he owns it.
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Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass; How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
Lifelong fans of Barry will enjoy the familiar rhythm of his humorous (and sometimes satirical) storytelling, and first-time readers will enjoy his candid, unpretentious voice and hilarious anecdotes spanning nearly 80 years.
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
Purdum’s access to the Arnaz family and unpublished records allows him to essentially fact-check the memoirs written by Arnaz and Ball, and his honest reflection of a complicated man is poignant and heartfelt.
Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir
Seller is an engaging storyteller and as passionate about directing summer camp theater as he is about producing award-winning Broadway shows. Highly recommended.
Yoko: The Biography
Writing a balanced but heartfelt account that general readers will find riveting, Sheff characterizes Ono as a strong, brilliant, hard-working experimental artist and musician who battled racism and sexism in a largely solitary life.
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La Cucina di Terroni: The Cookbook
A welcome addition to showcase traditional Italian cooking in collections.
It Must Be Beautiful To Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body
Gies has written a standout, poignant, and much-needed look into what many disabled children are forced to deal with (often against their will or consent) and the ways it affects their mental health and wellbeing for their entire lives. It’s sure to appeal to readers of the work of Alice Wong and other disability rights’ activists.
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Elegy, Southwest
Metaphors abound in Watts’s fiction, but this work solemnly ponders whether accepting negation opens up alternative paths toward the future. Her novel movingly covers multitudinous forms of grief: ecological, political, and familial.
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