Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
Biography & Memoir
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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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The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
by Shugri Said Salh
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
"I am the last nomad. My ancestors traveled the East African desert in search of grazing land for their livestock, and the most precious resource of all - water. When they exhausted the land and the clouds disappeared from the horizon, their ...
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
by Dawn Turner
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the ...
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Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir
by Carol Smith
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
A powerful exploration of grief following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal.
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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
by Ashley C. Ford
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: May 2022
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: May 2022
Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure...
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Dog Flowers
by Danielle Geller
Hardcover: Jan 2021
Paperback: Apr 2022
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history.
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Hollywood Park
by Mikel Jollett
Hardcover: May 2020
Paperback: Mar 2022
Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of ...
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