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  Knocking Myself Up - A Memoir of...

  Michelle Tea

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  From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman 
  Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea’s route to parenthood—with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck. Along the way she falls in love with a wholesome genderqueer a decade her junior, attempts biohacking herself a baby with black market fertility meds (and magicking herself an offspring with witch-enchanted honey), learns her eggs are busted, and enters the Fertility Industrial Complex in order to carry her younger lover’s baby. 
  With the signature sharp wit and wild heart that have made her a favorite to so many readers, Tea guides us through the maze of medical procedures, frustrations and astonishments on the path to getting pregnant, wryly critiquing some of the systems that facilitate that choice (“a great, punk, daredevil thing to do”). In Knocking Myself Up, Tea has crafted a deeply entertaining and profound memoir, a testament to the power of love and family-making, however complex our lives may be, to transform and enrich us.

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  Virginia Woolf

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, a novelist, essayist, and literary innovator whose work transformed modern literature. Through her exploration of memory, consciousness, and the inner lives of her characters, she helped redefine what a novel could achieve. 
   
  Born in London in 1882, Woolf became a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group, a community of writers, artists, and thinkers who shaped British cultural life. Her major works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own, all celebrated for their originality, psychological depth, and literary craftsmanship. Beyond fiction, Woolf was a significant essayist and commentator on literature, society, and the role of women in intellectual life. Her writings continue to influence scholars, writers, and readers around the world, securing her place among the most important voices of the modern age. 
   
  This biography traces Woolf's journey from young writer to literary pioneer. Drawing upon letters, diaries, memoirs, and historical records, it explores her life, achievements, struggles, and enduring legacy. More than eighty years after her death, Virginia Woolf remains one of the most admired and studied authors in English literature.

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  Serious Pleasures: The Life of...

  Philip Hoare

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  A new reissue of Philip Hoare's singular biography of Stephen Tennant. 
  ‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’ John Waters, New York Times 
  Philip Hoare’s fascinating profile of Britain’s most legendary and flamboyant aristocratic aesthete. With unparalleled insight into Tennant’s bizarre and outrageously eccentric life, Hoare presents a superb biography that reflects an age of intellect, indolence, narcissism and pure style. 
  For fans of Julia Rothman (How We Got By), Seán Hewitt (All Down Darkness Wide), Oliver Soden (Jeoffry), Robert Macfarlane (Desert Solitaire), and Matthew Green (The Wizard Of The Nile).

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  Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  Alfred Thayer Mahan is arguably the most influential military strategist in American history, and one of the world’s most important naval theorists. His work has been nearly as influential as the famous German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), and the lesser-known but nearly as influential Swiss military writer Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779-1869). 
  Alfred decided to go to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, which he was admitted to via the influence of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. He graduated in 1859 and started a career lasting almost 40 years. He served aboard a wide variety of ships, from a powerful frigate under sail to a variety of steam sloops, corvettes, and gunboats, many of which were side wheelers and all of which had auxiliary sails. 
  He started as a Midshipman and worked his way up the naval ranks to Captain and Commander. He also had several independent commands. He was stationed off the Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico during the Union blockade of the Confederacy. He was on a sidewheeler tasked with keeping an eye on the French in Mexico, where Napoleon II had installed a Hapsburg archduke as emperor. He spent more than two years on station in the Far East, spent a couple of years with the South Atlantic Squadron based in Montevideo in Uruguay, and then a year off the west coast of South America, in a ship observing events during the War of the Pacific. 
  After a lengthy naval career, Mahan had assignments at the Naval Academy and the Brooklyn Naval Yard. He was invited to lecture at the Naval War College, and it was there that he collected together his notes and wrote a book, The Influence of Naval Power upon History, which somehow became an international bestseller in 1890. His book resulted in an invitation to dine with the Queen in Britain. It was translated into German and the Kaiser ordered a copy be placed on every German warship and in every school.

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  The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter

  Paul Blake Smith

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  Under the cover of night, on February 19, 1973, another U.S. president witnessed extraterrestrials. 
   
   
   
  President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip. 
   
   
   
  As established in Smith's previous work, President Eisenhower's Close Encounters, this meeting was reminiscent of and perhaps even predicated by similar visits made by the president's predecessors, as well as others in the American government and entertainment industry. This in-depth book will attempt to separate fact from fiction. These events were carried off without the public learning the hushed facts and data connecting the two different presidential administrations . . . 
   
   
   
  until now.

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  From the Ashes of My Childhood -...

  Jenna Leigh Hartwood

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  From the Ashes of My Childhood is a powerful and unflinching memoir that steps quietly into the hidden corridors of a fractured family legacy. Beneath the surface of ordinary homes and familiar faces lies a world shaped by silence, secrets, and survival. Through fragmented memories and the weight of unanswered questions, one woman pieces together the truth of her past where love was entangled with pain, and safety was always just out of reach. 
  Spanning generations marked by addiction, violence, and betrayal, this story reveals the silent wounds that persist and the invisible threads that tether us to those we long to forget. Yet, even in the darkest corners, flickers of light remain-glimpses of resilience, compassion, and the stubborn hope that healing is still possible. 
  With lyrical prose and disarming honesty, From the Ashes of My Childhood invites readers into a deeply personal reckoning. It is not just a story of what was endured, but of what was reclaimed-identity, peace, and the power to choose a different ending. A memoir as unsettling as it is inspiring, echoes long after the final page, asking: what do we carry, and what must we release to finally be free?

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