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Patti Smith
The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through Smith’s teenage years. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry, then lyrics, ultimately merging both into iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, living on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family. A series of profound losses mark Patti’s life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again.
Random House

Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer
The oral history of a band that came to define a generation tells the madcap tale of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts―now with a half-century’s wisdom―the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup. Soon joined by his wife–American photographer Linda McCartney–on keyboard and vocals; drummer Denny Seiwell; and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band.
Liveright

Anthony Hopkins
Born and raised in Port Talbot—a small Welsh steelworks town—amid war and depression, Sir Anthony Hopkins grew up around men who were tough and eschewed all forms of emotional vulnerability in favour of alcoholism and brutality. A struggling student in school, he was deemed a failure with no future ahead of him. But, on a fateful Saturday night, he watched the 1948 adaptation of Hamlet, sparking a passion for acting that would lead him on a path that no one could have predicted. Sir Anthony also takes a deeply honest look at the low points in his personal life. His addiction cost him his first marriage, his relationship with his only child, and nearly his life—the latter ultimately propelling him toward sobriety.
S&S / Summit Books

Stephanie Mines
Entering the Māori worldview is like stepping into a verdant landscape where humans and plants, animals, the land, rain, and mountains are united. This is the model of living that matriarch Maata Wharehoka has been sustaining her entire life in Aotearoa (New Zealand). The Māori word manaaki means to protect, to show respect, and to take care. This is the essence of Maata Wharehoka’s wisdom. Transmitting Maata’s wisdom to the world is the task Stephanie Mines set for herself as she shares in this book Maata’s pioneering efforts in healthcare, parenting, and social justice as well as her interpretations of traditional Māori teachings.
Harper Collins

Linda Rosewood
In the early 1980s, a household of lesbian feminists establish a women-only commune in an ancient Californian redwood forest. It seems a perfect place to practice the ritual magic that helps them function harmoniously as a group – even if they aren’t all true believers. If you ever wanted to know what that entails, here’s you chance to witness first hand, how women live and love as a group, whilte practicing magic. Of course there is conflict, but there’s also warmth and a sincere desire to overcome the patriarchy. An authentic book that leads us back to a more innocent and idealistic era, A Circle Outside describes a vision of a utopian dream, where the only real magic is self-transformation.
Lightning Books