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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Emily J. Lordi ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A top-notch biography of a generational talent. A comprehensive look at the life and career of “the Voice.” In her excellent biography of Houston, cultural...
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Sarah Hepola ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A brilliant autopsy of loves lost. Hepola’s second memoir is a story of three love affairs, all of them doomed.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Jamie Leigh Lorente ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An affecting account of one woman’s difficult journey to selfhood.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Melissa Bentley ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A poignant and poetic read whose execution needs tweaking.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Rick Black ; illustrated by Warren Lehrer ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A minimalist but cumulatively powerful meditation on deep grief.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Michael Mirasole ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An uplifting road memoir that serves as both geographical and spiritual guide.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by James P. Manning ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A warm, unflinching memoir of one man’s struggles with autism in a world that doesn’t make room for the condition.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Pippa Scott ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow An indelible, sharply detailed life story that’s earnest and engrossing.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Erin Russ ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A memoir that looks upon the self’s journey with tender attention and generous care.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Nick Cave ; photographed by Dominique Issermann ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A shattering family grief album.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Patrick O'Connell ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An elegant memoir of love in food, work, and life. Writing of his life, a renowned chef also reveals the makings of his destination restaurant.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Phillip Daley Phillip Daley ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A poignant tribute to a remote Jamaican village that effectively combines memoir and microhistory.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Philip Parker ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A thoroughly entertaining deep dive into one man’s 20th-century experiences.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Ryan Staples ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A coming-of-age memoir about divorce and family that balances side-splitting stories with touching reflections.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
edited by Rebecca Knight & Julie Buntin ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A welcome addition to the literature of motherhood. An anthology of writing on the subject of new motherhood, in bite-sized pieces.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Galina Slavova ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An engaging but uneven memoir of resilience. A Bulgarian immigrant, entrepreneur, actor, and cancer survivor chronicles her eventful life.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Rob Cole ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A touching biography and impassioned reminder of the persistent legacy of systemic racism.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors12 Jul 2022
by Wilbert L. Cooper ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow A revealing, closely observed account of police culture and its discontents.
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize12 Jul 2022
by Julie Kliegman ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Places a trailblazing athlete’s life story within a valuable and compelling context.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors21 Jun 2022
by Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Graceful and visually arresting. Engle and Alcántara trace the artistic roots of the renowned painter (1902-1982).
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