A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
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Category: Biography
First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it s Lion, a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara. This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his ch ...Show more
John Maynard Keynes by Vincent Barnett
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Category: Biography | Series: Routledge Historical Biographies
John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all time. Keynes's radical reassessment of the accepted principles of economics led to new ways of thinking ...Show more
CHURCHILLS MAN OF MYSTERY by Gill Bennett
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Category: Biography | Series: Government Official History Ser.
The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General ...Show more
My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More) by Dario Fo
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
'A great coming-of-age novel, My First Seven Years (plus a few more) is Dario Fo''s fantastic fictionalised memoir of his formative years, following his railwayman father around the various villages on the shores of Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy where they lived. Born in 1926 and growing up between th ...Show more
Ronald Reagan - Fate, Freedom and the Making of History by John Patrick Diggins
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized from public interest. But like Lincoln, who was also attacked for decades after his death, Reagan deserves to be regarded as one of our greatest presidents, an exemplar of true conservative values. In this bold and philosophical reevalu ...Show more
OBSESSIVE GENIUS by Barbara Goldsmith
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Category: Biography | Series: Great Discoveries Ser.
Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth--an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passion ...Show more
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: Biography
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt brings us ...Show more
NO ORDINARY GENIUS by Christopher Sykes; Richard P. Feynman
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Category: Biography
No Ordinary Genius traces Feynman's remarkable adventures inside and outside science, in words and more than one-hundred photographs, many of them supplied by his family and close friends. The words are often his own and those of family, friends, and colleagues such as his sister, Joan Feynman; his chil ...Show more
GRAHAN GREENE A LIFE IN LETTERS by Richard Greene; Graham Greene
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Category: Biography
There have been a number of Graham Greene biographies, but none has captured his voice, his loves, hates, family and friends-intimate and writerly-or his deep understanding of the world, like this astonishing collection of letters. Graham Greene is one of the few modern novelists who can be called great ...Show more
Mother Teresa Come Be My Light H/C by Brian Kolodiejchuk
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Category: Biography
This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history. During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sic ...Show more
FRANK THE VOICE by James Kaplan
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Category: Biography
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century--infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life b ...Show more