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Category: biography

  • Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

    Title:

    Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

    Author:

    Tom Santopietro

    Genres:

    Biography

    Summary (from publisher):

    Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion- Audrey Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century.
    Packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating and supplemented with incisive fashion commentary from award-winning designer Jeffrey Banks, Audrey Hepburn: A Beautiful Uncertainty is a one-of-a-kind exploration of Audrey’s glamorous image and remarkable life. Always leading with her heart, Hepburn is shown here fully captured in all her complexity: an often self-doubting but brilliant and genuinely kind woman whose style and activism changed the world.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Twinings Heart Warming

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  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    Title:

    Brown Girl Dreaming

    Author:

    Jacqueline Woodson

    Genres:

    Biography, African American Biography, Poetry

    Summary (from publisher):

    Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. 

    Tea/Coffee:

    Holy-Log Tea

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  • Redefining Realness

    Title:

    Redefining Realness

    Author:

    Janet Mock

    Genres:

    LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction, Biography

    Summary (from publisher):

    With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. 

    Tea/Coffee:

    Transgender Pride Tea Blend

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