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Belle
The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England...
by Amity Shlaes
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise...
Ashley's War
The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those soldiers...
Joan of Arc
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world—as never told before.
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French...
Shakespeare
The World as Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
William...
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.
The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President...
Such Good Girls
The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II—who went on to lead remarkable...
Aimee & Jaguar
A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim.
It was love almost at first sight. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems...
The Wife's Tale
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A Finalist for The Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction in Canada
In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia—a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation...
The Things They Cannot Say
Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget?
In The Things They Cannot Say, award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who—by sharing the truth about...
Paris Without End
The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
“A bittersweetmodern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
Hemingway’screative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell toArms, and The Old Man and the Sea came not only from his famoushunting trips, his liaisons in Cuba, or his relationships with Gertrude...
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else—Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—from the authors of Furious Love.
When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger...
Where the Birds Never Sing
The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco -- a farm boy from Alabama who was flung into the chaos of Normandy and survived the terrors of...
Lady at the O.K. Corral
The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.
For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman...