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Galla Placidia - The Last Roman Empress

Even by the standards of royalty in antiquity the life of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450 CE) seems an aberration. Daughter, granddaughter, an...

From Hell to Hollywood: The Incredible Journey of AP Photographer Nick UT

This book of Nick Ut's pictures and Hal Buell's wonderfully spare prose about Nick's life is so much more than a long-deserved tribute to...

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - True Stories of an L.A. Private Eye

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a collection of true short stories with a few personal vignettes about investigations the author Eddy L. McC...

The Trust - The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

Now in paperback comes the epic biography of the Ochses and the Sulzbergers, the families that have owned and run "The New York Times" fo...

A Key to the World

Victor Abbou is an invaluable witness to the period in France which is called the Deaf Awakening. His story is a treasure trove of archiv...

Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated; Volume 3

Richard Rive - A Partial Biography

An empathetic biography of the apartheid author, Richard Rive. Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and ...

Drink in the Summer: A Memoir of Croatia

Series Editors: Janice Dickin and Cathy Cavanaugh Our Lives aims at both student and general readership.Today's students, living in a wor...

Diana, William, and Harry - The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother

At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother....

Maria Cosway - Thomas Jefferson's Femme Fatale or Failed Miniaturist Artist?

Maria Cosway, Italian born artist who captured the heart of American Minister to France, Thomas Jefferson in 1786 while he was abroad. Mr...

My Great Arab Melancholy

Award-winning graphic history of the modern Arab world, combining travelogue, memoir, and gorgeous full-color art

Be Useful - Seven Tools for Life

"The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless rein...

Patterns of Childhood

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

"When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago, after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself part of the community of veterans wh...

Churchill

Acclaimed historian Roy Jenkins presents a comprehensive biography of Winston Churchill, an icon of modern history, from his childhood to...

Sapphic Slashers - Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

"In this stunningly coherent and compelling account of the development of 'American modernity, ' Duggan captures our interest with the se...

She Came from Mariupol

When Natascha Wodin's mother died, Natascha was only ten years old--too young to find out what her mother had experienced during World Wa...

Paulo Freire - A Philosophical Biography

Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedago...

Quentin Tarantino - Interviews

Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin ...

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Heimat - A German Family Album

Nora Krug is a German-American author, illustrator and associate professor in the Illustration Program at the Parsons School of Design in...

The Falling Sky - Words of a Yanomami Shaman

Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in...

The Blue Hen's Chick - An Autobiography

"It was a fine country to grow up in. To find riches, a boy had only to go outside", writes Guthrie about his childhood in Montana early ...

The Locust and the Bird - My Mother's Story

In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, K...

Eastman, C: FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZ

The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower

Almost to the day of his death in 1932, Legare kept a journal of his observations on the development of Darien as a center for timber exp...

Maria Montessori - A Biography

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) brought about a revolution in the classroom. She developed a method of teaching small children and inspired ...

The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach was a legendary...

Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow

Leaving One's Comfort Zone - The Story of a Move to Italy

"What type of experience, do you think, would force an individual to leave the country one was born and brought up in, spoke its language...

The Price of Freedom: Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall - Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall

A thrilling and uniquely personal account of one of the most daring escape dramas of Cold War Berlin.

Sea Kayaker's Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons from Sea Kayaker Magazine - True Stories and Their Lessons from "Sea Kayaker" Magazine

Contains more than twenty real-life accounts of sea kayaking accidents that offers you potentially life-saving lessons. This book contain...

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on John Steinbeck, Including His Personal Life, Best Sellers Such as the Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Movi

Boyhood - Scenes from Provincial Life

J.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold an...

The Making of the Bible - From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture

The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism¿s and Christianity¿s sacred books. Why these texts, and how wer...

Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy - The Short-Arse Years: Jason Byrne's Memoir

"A hilarious childhood memoir from one of Ireland's funniest comedians. Jason Byrne's Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy, a laugh-out-loud me...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Newly Collected and Edited

The Lost Carving - A Journey to the Heart of Making

"A beautiful, intricate meditation on creativity and discovery, on fire and rebirth.” —Elizabeth Gilbert Awestruck at the sight of a Grin...

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Sontag - Her Life

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANC...

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond - The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

"The biography of a pioneering woman astronomer whose work was ignored until she uncovered evidence for the existence of dark matter--and...

Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951 - 1989

These eloquent meditations, philosophical musings, and whimsical doodles offer us the clearest window into the soul of this American lite...

When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva - The Challenging Transformation of a Modern Guru

Andrew Cohen details his spiritual initiation, his rapid rise to guruhood, the explosive growth of his spiritual community worldwide, and...

Running Toward Mystery - The Adventure of an Unconventional Life

A revered Buddhist monk tells the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation, sharing lessons about the po...

Rememberings

From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs,...

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Kent Haruf, Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Tie That Binds, and Plainso

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped p...

Blood and Champagne - The Life and Times of Robert Capa

An evocative biography of the incomparable Robert Capa, the most famous photojournalist of the twentieth century

Dawson, W: BISMARCK & STATE SOCIALISM

If You Only Knew - Autobiography

The only autobiography of "the greatest violinist of his generation" (Yehudi Menuhin) The road to the pinnacle of violin-playing has not ...

Tove Jansson - Work and Love

Dr Tuula Karjalainen is a Finnish art historian and non-fiction writer who has previously worked as a director of the Helsinki Art Museum...

Making History - The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, Wi...

War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance

War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance

Killjoy - Taking on a macho media empire and winning

The true story of the No More Page 3 campagin, and the ordinary people who came together to take down a macho media empire . . . and won.

Fine - A Comic About Gender

For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender id...

How to Live - Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's ...

The Anxiety Project

"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch "Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major...

Memory Speaks - On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self

As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy...