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• No Fault

  a Memoir of Romance and Divorce

  Mlotek, Haley

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• It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished

  a Memoir of My Body

  Gies, Kate

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• How to Share An Egg

  a True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

  Reichert, Bonny

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• Restaurant Kid

  a Memoir of Family and Belonging

  Phan, Rachel

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• Look Ma, No Hands

  a Chronic Pain Memoir

  Drolet, Gabrielle

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• Searching for Serafim

  The Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes

  Smith Diaz, Ruby

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• The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

  a Memoir

  Nguyen, Vinh (Associate professor)

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• Fan Mail

  a Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn

  Guriel, Jason, 1978-

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• Motherness

  a Memoir of Generational Autism, Parenthood and Radical Acceptance

  Green, Julie M.

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• Enshittification

  Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

  Doctorow, Cory

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• We Survived the Night

  An Indigenous Reckoning

  NoiseCat, Julian Brave

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• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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• Baldwin, Styron, and Me

  Abdelmoumen, Mélikah

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• How to Survive a Bear Attack

  a Memoir

  Cameron, Claire, 1973-

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• Sucker Punch

  Essays

  Koul, Scaachi

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• A Truce That Is Not Peace

  Toews, Miriam, 1964-

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• Nowhere Girl

  Life as a Member of ADHD's Lost Generation

  Ciccone, Carla

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• Soft as Bones

  a Memoir

  Sage, Chyana Marie

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• Big Girls Don't Cry

  a Memoir About Taking Up Space

  Swan, Susan, 1945-

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• John Candy

  a Life in Comedy

  Myers, Paul, 1960-

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