Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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“a compelling, personal, and deeply moving look behind-the-curtain of the rarified field of pediatric neurosurgery, and one compassionate doctor’s lifelong mission to save childrens’ lives.

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"Suzann Cope rights a wrong in this exhaustive book, detailing through four women's particular experiences the pivotal role women had in fighting the fascist occupation."

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“John Bicknell . . . frames this story around the competing approaches to emancipation of President Abraham Lincoln and Union General John C. Fremont in a splendidly written new book .

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“These pages feel like having a conversation with a close friend, someone who is interesting and funny and deeply honest.”

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“Leslie does a fantastic job here of writing in a compelling way . . .”

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On Memorial Day in 2019, 35 years into a happy marriage, novelist Geraldine Brooks’ beloved husband Tony Horwitz drops dead on a Washington D.C. street.

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The first six months after Pearl Harbor were a very dismal time for America. Facing nothing but constant defeat at the hands of the Japanese Empire, America desperately needed heroes.

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“Through it all, Deutsch is relentlessly honest about her experience.”

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As both muse and career manager of her husband Salvador, Gala Dalí was a central figure in one of the most interesting and provocative art movements of the 20th century, surrealism.

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On April 1, 2025, the new memoir by the lauded biographer Blake Bailey hits the bookstores.

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“The potential readership for this book is not limited to Austen fans—of which there are legions—but also to those interested in the work of women writers and . . .

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“By avoiding the thorny issues and critical assessments he needs to make, Sheff doesn’t resurrect her for us but instead adds to the negatively charged mystique that has always engulfed Yok

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“She was hounded by the Gestapo, which during the war visited her very often in the palace. Officers of the secret police demanded that she bring her children back to the Third Reich.

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offers a multifaceted history of Franklin’s invention.

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"Henry Alford provides a clear, incredibly thoroughly-researched recounting of Mitchell’s abundant life."

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"A thorough exploration of Vincent's journey to become an artist with a strong, distinctive vision."

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“Deborah Dwork has fashioned an inspiring, wide-ranging, and gripping story of brave Americans living perilously among their refugee clients in dangerous wartime Europe and China.”

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Whether you have read just one or both parts—or none—of Goethe’s epic poem Faust, this exegesis and commentary by A. N. Wilson will enrich your mind and spirit.

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In the preface to his raunchy, revealing, and sometimes disturbing memoir, The Loves of My Life, Edmund White declares that he is now, in his mid-eighties, “at an age when writers are supp

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What can be said about Food Network’s Ina Garten that fans of Food TV’s Barefoot Contessa don’t already know?

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“Jade Scott explains that, depending on your belief, Mary Queen of Scots was innocent, naïve, cunning, manipulative, deceitful, adulterous, tyrannical . . . and more.”

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