Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
Biography & Memoir
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Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
Paperback: Nov 2020
From "an exceptional storyteller," Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota's Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.
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In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
by Miranda Seymour
Hardcover: Nov 2018
Paperback: Nov 2020
A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord Byron.
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Edison
by Edmund Morris
Hardcover: Oct 2019
Paperback: Nov 2020
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
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Children of the Land
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Hardcover: Jan 2020
Paperback: Sep 2020
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future in a nation ...
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
by Amaryllis Fox
Hardcover: Oct 2019
Paperback: Sep 2020
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.
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Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss
by Rachel Clarke
Hardcover: Sep 2020
In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.
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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Francoise Frenkel
Hardcover: Dec 2019
Paperback: Aug 2020
"A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer's Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-...
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by Sonia Purnell
Hardcover: Apr 2019
Paperback: Mar 2020
The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine
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