Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
Biography & Memoir
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
by Burkhard Bilger
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain).
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Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
by Fae Myenne Ng
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: May 2024
From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their ...
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
by Melissa L. Sevigny
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: May 2024
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2024
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, ...
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by Karen Valby
Hardcover: Apr 2024
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
by Monica Potts
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
by Hilary A. Hallett
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Apr 2024
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by Hampton Sides
Hardcover: Apr 2024
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this ...
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