Biography

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

by Jennette McCurdy

2022

A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013…

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

by Lori Gottlieb

2019

"From a New York Timesbest-selling writer, psychotherapist, and advice columnist, a brilliant and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are in crisis (and so is she)"--…

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Einstein

by Walter Isaacson

2017

From Isaacson, the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin," comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of a premier icon of his era.…

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Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

2007

The Number One international bestseller, Eat, Pray Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.…

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Red Roulette

by Desmond Shum

2022

After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was…

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A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

1996

Hemingway records his five years in Paris, describing his own creative struggles and providing portraits of such fellow expatriates as Fitzgerald, Pound, and Stein.…

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Diana

by Rosalind Coward

2004

Supplemented by many never before published photographs, offers a personal look at the woman known for her humanitarian inspiration to the world.…

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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

2015

"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with…

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After the Fact

by Clifford Geertz

1996

In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Clifford Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world…

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Women on the Margins

by Natalie Zemon Davis

1995

Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.…

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Freedom in Exile

by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho

1990

The autobiography of the Dalai Lama who won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.…

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Alpine Warriors

by Bernadette McDonald

2015

By the early 70's, they had advanced to the 8000ers. Although not exclusively Slovenian, the teams were - not surprisingly - dominated by Slovenian climbers, since Slovenia is blessed with the Julian Alps. A fiercely steep range of lime…

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