Category: Biography
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THE EDUCATION OF KENDRICK PERKINS, A MEMOIR by KENDRICK PERKINS with SETH ROGOFF
Perkins’ riveting stories about the NBA, his upbringing and social justice will make this book impossible to put down.” — Emmanuel Acho, New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man We know Kendrick as an NBA player and ESPN commentator, but the same style he brings to those endeavors is the same blunt, unvarnished…
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THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD by NATALIE LIVINGSTONE
The Untold Story of The World’s Most Famous Dynasty In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power. Natalie Livingstone has given us a look at the women of Rothschild and a very interesting look it is. From England to…
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Wild: The Life of Peter Beard by Graham Boynton
The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, adventurer, lover Graham Boynton’s Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life icon who pushed the boundaries of art and scandalized international high society with his high-profile affairs. What an interesting life this man had. Descended from old money. His great-grandfather, James Hill founded the Great Northern Railway…
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BECOMING FDR: THE PERSONAL CRISIS THAT MADE A PRESIDENT by JONATHAN DARMAN
This revealing biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how one of the most consequential leaders in American history found his true self in his searing struggle with polio–emerging from illness with strength and wisdom he would use to inspire the world. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a natural politician. He was born in 1882 into a…
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THE OTHER DR. GILMER by BENJAMIN GILMER
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system–a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. This is a true-crime as well as a biography. Dr.Benjamin Gilmer…
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The CHURCHILL SISTERS by RACHEL TRETHEWEY
A lot has been written about Winston Churchill. And there are books about the girls and their mother. This book pulls all of them together, using unpublished letters from archives and numerous other sources, the author gives us a complete picture of the private lives of the three girls who lived to adulthood. Diana, serious…
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THREE MARTINI AFTERNOONS AT THE RITZ by GAIL CROWTHER (The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton)
The story of two of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The two meet at a workshop in Boston led by Robert Lowell, they for a friendship that spun way out of control fueled by jealousy, respect, and a rivalry that never ended. There is so much I did…
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BLOOD AND TREASURE DANIEL BOONE AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA’S FIRST FRONTIER by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
The middle of the 1700’s were full of uncertainty for the thirteen colonies that Great Britain has founded so far. There are so many different battles going on it’s no wonder everyone was a little anxious. Everyone wants to find a new frontier. And they are all willing to die for it. The Natives, the…
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The Brothers of AUSCHWITZ by MALKA ADLER
My brother’s tears left a delicate, clean line on his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered, it’s really you … Brothers Dov and Yitzhak are pretty isolated in their tiny village in Hungary, the war seems far away. Oh how things can change in a day. The Nazis give them one hour before they are…
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BLACK WIDOW by Leslie Gray Streeter
Leslie Gray Streeter offers us a portrait of widowhood we haven’t seen before, one that “will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page” (James Patterson). Palm Beach Post columnist Leslie Gray Streeter entered her late thirties with her husband Scott, moving in together and starting the process of adopting a baby. Yes,…
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