Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
Biography & Memoir
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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
by Judith Mackrell
Hardcover: Nov 2021
Paperback: Feb 2023
The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II - from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent.
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
by Amy Bloom
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to part - and of a woman...
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This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
by Taylor Harris
Hardcover: Jan 2022
Paperback: Jan 2023
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed - about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith - in search of the truth about her son.
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Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Hardcover: Nov 2022
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.
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Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
by Kindra Neely
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Oct 2022
This searing graphic memoir portrays the impact of gun violence through a fresh lens with urgency, humanity, and a very personal hope.
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
by Jeremiah Moss
Hardcover: Oct 2022
What happens when an entire social class abandons a metropolis? This genre-bending journey through lockdown New York offers an exhilarating, intimate look at a city returned to its rebellious spirit.
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
by Ai Weiwei
Hardcover: Nov 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
In his widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most...
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Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Géraldine Schwarz
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Sep 2022
Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism...
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