Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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“Anna May’s is not exactly a rags-to-riches story, but it did start with dirty clothes, laboring as a young girl in her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles.

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Emily Raboteau is a 47-year-old Black woman of mixed race, who lives in the Bronx, NY, with her husband and two adolescent sons.

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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is a collection of essays by Julia Serano originally released in 2007.

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"A fascinating portrait of a man who left his mark all over present-day Israel in his great buildings and an even bigger mark on Christian imagination."

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Mistress of Life and Death is a very upsetting account, but a necessary one. As the author writes . . .

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“In carefully crafted words, Dubus III both records and enacts his transcendence of the often brutal facts of his upbringing and our time.”

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“The author keeps The Watchmaker’s Daughter a simple, unadorned story that makes the events even more horrific and universal—especially for our times.”

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Grief Is for People is an eloquent, pensive, and deeply moving paean to a best friend.”

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“For those who don't know Spinoza and for those who do, Buruma offers a truly illuminating book. . . .

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“The subject is handled well by an expert who produces a highly readable and intimate history.”

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“Golway’s lively and insightful narrative does much to illuminate La Guardia’s enduring impact on New York City and the relevance of his grand and inclusive social vision a century later.”

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Despite the horrific racism he’d seen, suffered, and fought against, John Lewis never allowed his heart to be consumed by hate.

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“In True Believer, Traub traces not just Hubert Humphrey’s life but the rise and fall of mid-20th century liberalism with all of its courage, promise, triumphs, contradictions, com

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Author Dan Callahan specializes in big biographies of stars such as Barbara Stanwyck and Vanessa Redgrave. He profiled Alfred Hitchcock, looked at the art of screen acting, and wrote a novel, too.

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“This scholarship, written as a clear, engaging narrative, inspires the reader to take the ideas presented in Life After Power to look at other post-presidency lives.”

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“The author calls Billie ‘the consummate performer whose gift was her ability to make a listener experience the emotion she was feeling as she sang a song.’”

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“A dynamite cultural history account that focuses laser-like on the fraught translation of Edward Albee’s 1962 searing stage play about marriage . . .

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Churchill had laid the groundwork for the courtship of America decades before World War II by forging an American network of friendly and influential elites to promote Bri

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a comprehensive volume capturing the Lardner style and offering a considerable insight into America’s favorite sportswriter.”

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“The stories in this little book offer entertaining adventures beyond history that has gone unrecognized.”

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“20,000 phone calls are made to domestic violence hotlines each day in the United States.

One in four women will experience intimate partner violence in her lifetime.”

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An ancient pilgrimage trail, over 1000 years old and 1000 miles long, runs from South Central France, across the Pyrenees on the Napoleon Trail, then due west in northern Spain to the city of Santi

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The World That Wasn’t paints a convincing portrait of a gullible, flip-flopping fool that does little to explain Henry Wallace’s importance to FDR’s New Deal or progressives’ endu

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“Jowitt has given us . . . a useful reference source for scholars, dance professionals, and devoted followers of Martha Graham.”

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