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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
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The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir
by Sophia Al-Maria
Paperback: 27 Nov 2012
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| The Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home. |
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Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by Yangzom Brauen
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 30 Oct 2012
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| An extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence. |
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 6 Aug 2013
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| How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them. |
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Darwin: A Life in Poems
by Ruth Padel
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 9 Oct 2012
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| This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist. |
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The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. |
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All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body
by Kim Noble
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 1 Oct 2012
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| Taking the reader through an extraordinary world where the very nature of reality is different, this personal narrative tells the story of one woman's terrifying battle to understand her own mind. |
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
by Salman Rushdie
Hardcover: 18 Sep 2012
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| How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. |
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
Hardcover: Nov 2011
Paperback: 18 Sep 2012
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| The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. |
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