autobiographies

"The first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA championship, [CeC? Telfer] has contended with transphobia on and off the track since childhood. Now, she stands at the crossroads of a national and international conversation about equity in sports, forced to advocate for her personhood and rights at every turn. After spending years training for the 2024 Olympics, Telfer has been sidelined and silenced more times than she can count. But she's never been good at taking no for an answer"--Provided by publisher.

"From indie musician Orenda Fink, a memoir of a tumultuous childhood growing up with a mother who may have borderline personality disorder. Orenda Fink was raised by a darkly charismatic mother who insisted that they were both MAGIC. In The Witch's Daughter, Orenda chronicles her years spent navigating this ominous power, alongside her mother's substance abuse and hyper-controlling, often destructive, grip on the family, later suspected to be a subtype of borderline personality disorder classified as "The Witch." Fink's searing prose brings the reader through these tumultuous highs and lows of childhood, through her adulthood and early days as a musician, and into a healed version of herself who is able to walk through the world without being crushed under the baggage of her childhood"--Provided by publisher.

"From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the life of actor Elliot Page, details his early life, acting career, and transition. Explores his journey to discover his gender identity and sexuality, first as gay and then a transgender man.

"The memoir of Ying Chang Compestine's childhood growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution"--Provided by publisher.

"Laurie Boyle Crompton's coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City are is the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. . . . Crompton takes you along as she navigates relationships, plays the happy family at church despite discord at home, manages her mother's ambitions and her father's alcoholism, struggles with her self-image and desperately tries to fit in. . . . 'The Demin Diaries' follows Crompton's journey through disordered eating and sexual assault to acceptance and recovery"--Provided by publisher.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp. During World War II the incarceration camp called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans.

"Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, [the author] answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable'--Publsiher.

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.

"Edie is a talented dancer and skilled gymnast with hopes of making the Olympics. Between her rigorous training and her struggle to find her place in a family where she's considered the daughter 'with brains but no looks,' Edie's too busy to dwell on the state of the world. But life in Hungary in 1943 is dangerous for a Jewish girl. Just as Edie falls in love for the first time, Europe collapses into war, and Edie's family is forced onto a train bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp. Even in that darkest of moments, Edie's beloved, Eric, kindles hope. 'I'll never forget your eyes,' he tells her through the slats of the cattle car. Auschwitz is horrifying beyond belief, yet through starvation and unthinkable terrors, dreams of Eric sustain Edie. Against all odds, Edie and her sister Magda survive, thanks to their sisterhood and sheer grit. In this young adult edition of her . . . memoir The Choice, . . . psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger gives readers a . . . [story] of hope and strength"--Provided by publisher.