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NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs. It is year-end list season. And for your reading and gift-giving pleasure, NPR has ...

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Leslie Gray Streeter wrote “Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like ‘Journey’ in the Title” because it’s the book she needed when she became ...

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