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Abraham Lincoln
The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865
Times Books
America’s greatest president, who rose to power in the country’s greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War
Abraham...
Bella Abzug
How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"A remarkable work of oral history [and] a fond, provocative testament to a remarkable life."*
“A fabulous read about a breed of politician now largely...
Harold and Me
My Life, Love, and Hard Times with Harold Robbins
Forge Books
In 1982, after years of working in advertising in Oklahoma, Jann Stapp took a job as the personal assistant to the world's bestselling author, Harold Robbins....
John Tyler
The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845
Times Books
The first “accidental president,” whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion
When William Henry Harrison died in April...
Digging for Dirt
The Life and Death of ODB
Faber & Faber
A fan's exploration of the man behind the myth
Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Russell Jones) rose to fame with the Wu-Tang Clan in the early ’90s, his unorthodox...
A Charmed Life
Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
St. Martin's Griffin
A Charmed Life tells the story of Liza Campbell, the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the same locale featured in...
The Lady Upstairs
Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post
St. Martin's Griffin
The Lady Upstairs is the dramatic story of Dorothy Schiff—liberal activist, society stalwart, and the most dynamic female newspaper publisher of her day. From...
Front of the Class
How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
St. Martin's Griffin
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it difficult to be...
Isadora Duncan
A Graphic Biography
Hill and Wang
Myth and controversy still swirl around the dramatic figure of Isadora Duncan. The pioneering modern dancer emerged from provincial nineteenth-century America...
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”
“Because there is a war.”
“You mean,...
Night
Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel
Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
A Wolf at the Table
A Memoir of My Father
St. Martin's Press
“As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the...
The Mayor of Castro Street
The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
St. Martin's Griffin
Known as “The Mayor of Castro Street” even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk’s personal life, public career, and...
The Last Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Henry Holt and Co.
The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a revelatory history that is especially resonant now
After John...
Magical Thinking
True Stories
Picador
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True...
Possible Side Effects
Picador
National Bestseller
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of...
Up Till Now
The Autobiography
Thomas Dunne Books
“It is now Bill Shatner’s universe---we just live in it.”---New York Daily News
After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the...
Catch a Fire
The Life of Bob Marley
Holt Paperbacks
The classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death
Bob Marley left an indelible mark on...
Sinatra in Hollywood
Thomas Dunne Books
Hollywood legend, Academy Award--winning actor, and recipient of the Golden Globe Award for lifetime achievement in film, Frank Sinatra carved out one of the...
Prince of Stories
The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
St. Martin's Press
Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical...
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