Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
Biography & Memoir
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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
by Audrey Farley
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: Apr 2023
For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, a page-turning drama of fortunes, eugenics and women's reproductive rights framed by the sordid court battle between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother.
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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
by Mary Louise Kelly
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Apr 2025
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along ...
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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent ...
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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
by Judith Mackrell
Hardcover: Nov 2021
Paperback: Feb 2023
The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II - from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent.
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
by Amy Bloom
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to part - and of a woman...
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This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
by Taylor Harris
Hardcover: Jan 2022
Paperback: Jan 2023
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed - about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith - in search of the truth about her son.
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Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Hardcover: Nov 2022
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.
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Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
by Kindra Neely
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Oct 2022
This searing graphic memoir portrays the impact of gun violence through a fresh lens with urgency, humanity, and a very personal hope.
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
by Jeremiah Moss
Hardcover: Oct 2022
What happens when an entire social class abandons a metropolis? This genre-bending journey through lockdown New York offers an exhilarating, intimate look at a city returned to its rebellious spirit.
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
by Ai Weiwei
Hardcover: Nov 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
In his widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most...
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Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Géraldine Schwarz
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Sep 2022
Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism...
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)
by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams
Hardcover: Oct 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and ...
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The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
by Shugri Said Salh
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
"I am the last nomad. My ancestors traveled the East African desert in search of grazing land for their livestock, and the most precious resource of all - water. When they exhausted the land and the clouds disappeared from the horizon, their ...
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
by Dawn Turner
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the ...
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Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir
by Carol Smith
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
A powerful exploration of grief following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal.
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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
by Ashley C. Ford
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: May 2022
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: May 2022
Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure...
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Dog Flowers
by Danielle Geller
Hardcover: Jan 2021
Paperback: Apr 2022
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history.
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Hollywood Park
by Mikel Jollett
Hardcover: May 2020
Paperback: Mar 2022
Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of ...
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The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
by Karen Cheung
Hardcover: Feb 2022
A boldly rendered - and deeply intimate - account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises.
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