Biography

Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN...

Author: David Cameron (Georgia Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive...

Author: Ruben Gallego Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company,...

Author: David Talbot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over...

Author: Rachel Frankel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In She Can Really Lay It Down, author Rachel Frankel tells the fascinating stories of fifty female musicians who left their...

Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...

Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...

Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...

Author: Fred Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Americans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are...

Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...

Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...

Author: Alice Judge-Talbot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 At 27 years old, I found myself with a broken down marriage and two children under two to raise on my...

Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...

Author: Chongda Cai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...

Author: Stephen Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high...

Author: Alan Feuer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, El Chapo, from the New York Times reporter whose...

Author: Jill Heinerth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths...

Author: Ha Jin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also...

Author: Claire Dederer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers...

Author: Samantha Clark Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This house has been a regular presence in my life for as long as I can remember. My heart has sunk...

Author: Alexander Lobrano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he...

Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...

Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...

Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...

Author: James Donovan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo" this inspiring and intimate...

Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Multiple copy pack Number of Pages: 0 Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-one of the world's most admired and...

Author: Debbie Harry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...

Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry...

Author: Alistair Brownlee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In his quest to define 'sporting greatness', double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly 4 years interviewing and...

Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...

Author: Robert Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 AS SEEN IN THE TIMES AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller 'THE...

Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and...

Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...

Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...

Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...

Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...

Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...

Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...

Author: Hugh van Cuylenburg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From the bestselling author of THE RESILIENCE PROJECT comes this deeply personal book about the importance of letting...

Author: Dawn French Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The number one bestselling autobiography of Britain's best-loved comedienne ___________________________ A hilarious, heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved...

Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...

Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...

Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...

Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...

Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...

Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...