Biographies & Memoirs

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Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Michael Signer
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A ground-breaking investigation into the intellectual, psychological, and personal life of American leader James Madison, the Founding Father who did the most, but about whom we know the least


Bhutan
Wilhelm Klein
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Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography
W. F. Cody
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Thrilling yarns of buffalo hunts, Indian life, and riding with the Pony Express abound in this exciting memoir of life in the Old West. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.


Cleopatra
Prudence J. Jones
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A biography that focuses on Cleopatra's ever-shifting identity. Depending on the audience, she might present herself as a goddess, a political leader, or an alluring and exotic woman. Roman statesmen likewise manipulated Cleopatra's image for their own political ends.


Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson
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The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War.


Dali
Linde Salber
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Salvador Dali is the central figure in surrealism and one of the most eccentric artists of the modern age. This title presents a psychologist's take on this extraordinary life.


Dietrich
Malene Sheppard Skaerved
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The fascinating life of one of the great entertainment icons of the 20th century.


Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology
Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz
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"After helping to put Al Capone behind bars, lawman Eliot Ness came to Cleveland, where he did battle with a vicious killer.


Esprit De Corps: 50 Inspiring Stories from Our Men and Women in the Armed Forces
Lynne Rominger, Thaddeus P. Wojcik, Milo James
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This collection of 50 true narratives by veterans and active duty personnel spans four wars. It includes tales by a Vietnam vet whose helicopter plummeted to the ground, a marine who improvised when adrift and hungry in the sea and a pilot who learned why a dog is a man's best friend.


Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Mitch Albom
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"Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. ...


George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
John Berlau
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A business biography of George Washington, focusing on his many innovations and inventions. George Washington: general, statesman...businessman? Most people don't know that Washington was the country's first true entrepreneur, responsible for innovations in several industries. In George Washington, Entrepreneur, ...


Gershwin
Ruth Leon
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Gershwin's rise as one of the sons of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's lower East Side to his unassailable position as the leading composer of his time makes Gershwin the embodiment of the American Dream. This biography evokes the pace and colour of New York in the 1920s and 30s, and firmly places Gershwin at the centre of the Jazz Age.


Goethe
Peter Boerner
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. From his 'Storm and Stress' "Gotz von Berlichingen" to "Faust", which evolved over a sixty-year period, he created the prototype of the Romantic hero.


Halle Berry
Daniel O'Brien
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Born in Cleveland in 1968, Halley Berry first gained the public’s attention in 1986 as a runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant. When she turned to acting, her career took off with a key role in Spike Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. It wasn’t until 1999, however, with her Golden Globe-winning performance ...


Happily Ever After
Avi Steinberg
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A journalist's rollicking ride through the romance industry and a heartfelt and hilarious memoir of restoring faith in romantic love When his own romantic life was on the rocks, Avi Steinberg wondered if classical ideas about love still applied. As a compulsive reader, literary giants would be his guide. ...


Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
H.W. Brands
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"In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of ...


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Gerhard Gruitrooy
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In his short and eventful life Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) scandalised the conservative establishment of arts and letters with the subject matter of his paintings and lithographs He was part of the avant-garde whose work provoked and fascinated, and he became one of the most representative ...


Laughing with Obama: A Photographic Look Back at the Enduring Wit and Spirit of President Barack Obama
M. Sweeney
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A sequel to the best-selling Hugs from Obama.


Leaders: People Who Shaped the Last Century
S. K. Cooper
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Leaders in the Last Century is a collection of fifty of the most important politicians, and social innovators of the past 100 years. Each of the people featured in this book changed the world either for better or for worse.


Leopard IV Bearing Witness
Maclehose Christopher
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This volume is part of a series of occasional anthologies which includes excerpts from essays and diaries, poetry, stories and novels. The authors include: Stephen Becker, Julio Cortazar, Gesualdo Bufalino, Starling Lawrence, Lionel Abrahams, Nicholas Matiser and Anna Maria Ortese.

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