Biographies/Autobiographies
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
$19.99 Add to cartLawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger’s War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated war correspondent.
Arm
- Author: Tyson, Ann Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0062114999
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary
$24.95 Add to cartA New York Review Books Original
Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century –and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian- Author: Serge, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1590174518
- Language: English
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Service Ready: A Story of Love, Restaurants, and the Power of Hospitality
$29.00 Read moreMolly Irani, the visionary cofounder of the James Beard Award-winning restaurant Chai Pani, shares her passion for hospitality and story of building a thriving business that puts people first.
Growing- Author: Irani, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1668052997
- Language: English
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Patton
$18.99 Add to cartThis magnificent biography by the world’s foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (a
- Author: Blumenson, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0688137954
- Language: English
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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless a… [more below]
- Author: White, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0812973836
- Language: English
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Henry Sieben and the Montana Story
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Ryan, Ciara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1591523605
- Language: English
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Holbein: Renaissance Master
$50.00 Read moreA definitive biography of the artist who, more than any other, has shaped our image of the Tudor court
This landmark scholarly biography of Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543), court painter to H- Author: Goldring, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1913107507
- Language: English
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Notes Left Behind
$18.99 Add to cart“Elena has left behind a story of resilience, hope and most of all, love. We can’t help but take her into our hearts, and carry the best of her into our own lives.”
–Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor of The La
- Author: Desserich, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0061886408
- Language: English
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Worthy
$19.99 Add to cart**The New York Times Bestseller**
The Instant New York Times Bestseller with exclusive new content from Jada reflecting on the successful, complicated, and often surprising reactions and conversations
- Author: Smith, Jada Pinkett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 006332069X
- Language: English
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Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography
$19.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.
An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memo
- Author: Marr, Johnny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0062438735
- Language: English
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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art
$35.00 Add to cartPlaywright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays–including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson–that chronicle the lives of Black Amer… [more below]
- Series: Regional
- Author: Glasco, Laurence A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0822948540
- Language: English
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A River Is Made: From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines, Iowa – An Afghan Refugee’s Journey from War to Belonging in America
$16.99 Add to cartA River is Made is the true story of a life carried across borders, wars, and generations, told through the eyes of its author, Fazal Moneer Adil. From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines… [more below]
- Author: Adil, Fazal Moneer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993234403
- Language: English
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Spokes of the Wheel: A Grandson’s Look at WWII, His Grandfather and His Hometown.
$25.00 Add to cartThomas Colclasure sat down with his grandfather, Henry Raymond “Ray” Colclasure in the summer of 1998 to begin chronicling his grandfather’s WWII experiences as a member of the elite 82nd Airborne Div
- Author: Colclasure, Thomas H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218460105
- Language: English
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Chief: The Three Lives of Gene Locklear
$30.99 Add to cartA remarkable journey from a humble log cabin to Major League Baseball, showcasing resilience against discrimination and rejection. This inspiring tale of a Lumbee Indian artist and athlete highlights
- Author: Thomas, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798318800962
- Language: English
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Sharon and My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries
$21.00 Add to cartBased on diaries and email correspondence that she kept from 1981-2004, here Suad Amiry evokes daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
“A literary protest done with great wit, skill, and passion- Author: Amiry, Suad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 1400096499
- Language: English
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Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire
$32.00 Read moreAn exquisitely crafted memoir, sweeping from Zimbabwe to Oxford, that lays bare the violent, enduring legacy of colonialism on both a country and a family
Simukai Chigudu grew up in the shadow of Afri- Author: Chigudu, Simukai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593443691
- Language: English
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Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries
$35.00 Read moreNicholas Lemann grew up thinking he wanted to be Jack Burden, the ever-curious reporter-historian in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men who gets drawn into a web of southern intrigue. Like his fi
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 163149841X
- Language: English
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Come to Dinner: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
$14.99 Read more“An icon, unmasked. A friendship, unforgettable.”
A rare, revelatory portrait of Joan Didion–told not thr
Didion, like you’ve never seen her–this memoir could have easily been titled EAT. PRAY. JOAN.- Author: Davidson, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798998722387
- Language: English
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
$35.00 Read moreBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback
- Author: Streitfeld, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063234882
- Language: English
