Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
Biography & Memoir
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Dadland
by Keggie Carew
Hardcover: Mar 2017
Paperback: Mar 2018
A spellbinding journey into surprising and shady corners of twentieth-century politics, a rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, the corridors of dementia and beyond.
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Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World
by Tim Sultan
Hardcover: Feb 2016
Paperback: Mar 2018
Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest...
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
by Catherine Hewitt
Hardcover: Feb 2018
Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.
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You Will Not Have My Hate
by Antoine Leiris
Hardcover: Oct 2016
Paperback: Oct 2017
This inspirational and heartbreaking memoir shows the power of love as a young father finds himself suddenly caring for his son alone after his wife is killed in the Paris attacks.
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
by Glennon Doyle Melton
Hardcover: Sep 2016
Paperback: Sep 2017
The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
A 2016 Oprah Bookclub Selection
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Books for Living
by Will Schwalbe
Hardcover: Dec 2016
Paperback: Sep 2017
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily ...
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Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
by Isabel Vincent
Hardcover: May 2016
Paperback: Jun 2017
A nonagenarian and a recently divorced reporter meet weekly for dinner, and the discussion ranges from the importance of beauty, to living after loss, to the power of love to redeem and renew, to how to make a succulent duck breast.
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover: May 2016
Paperback: May 2017
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?
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