Biographies

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Natasha Trethewey
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy Larry Tye

DEMAGOGUE is a masterful portrait of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who led the Red Scare to uproot a...

Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy Seals Johnny Walker

CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IRAQI WHO RISKED EVERYTHING TO FIGHT WITH THE U.S. NAVY SEALS is the chilling story of an ordinary Iraqi who went on hundreds of missions in deadly combat to save the lives of American special-operations warriors. This is a side of the war that has never been...

Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart Carol Wall

MISTER OWITA'S GUIDE TO GARDENING: HOW I LEARNED THE UNEXPECTED JOY OF A GREEN THUMB AND AN OPEN HEART is the story of friendship and flowers; wisdom and grace; loss and inspiration. 

 

THIS COPY (shown below) was signed on the title page by Carol Wall at her home. It is a new, unread...

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder John Waters

MR. KNOW-IT-ALL is the fantastic and fascinating memoir from the long-reigning king of transgressive...

Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi Dean Faulkner Wells

EVERY DAY IN THE SUN: A MEMOIR OF THE FAULKNERS OF MISSISSIPPI offers a rare glimpse at the notoriously private life of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner and his family by the niece he helped raise. The book is honest, frank, entertaining and revealing.

 

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The Doctor Is in: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre Dr. Ruth Westheimer

THE DOCTOR IS IN: DR. RUTH ON LOVE, LIFE, AND JOIE DE VIVRE is truly an amazing story of a Holocaust survivor, an army sniper during Israel's War of Independence, and America's best-loved therapist. The book will help shed light on dealing with tragedy and loss, and living life to its fullest.

 

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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way Ryan White

JIMMY BUFFETT: A GOOD LIFE ALL THE WAY is the first definitive biography of the Chief Parrot Head, from top to bottom and back to the top. Almost everyone involved was interviewed including friends, band members business partners - past and present. If you enjoy the sound of Margaritaville, you'll love this book.

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library Edward Wilson-Lee

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS is the fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son, guardian of his father’s flame, courtier, and bibliophile, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe. This is the scarcely believable and wholly true story of the bastard son Hernando...

Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey Ziauddin Yousafzai

LET HER FLY: A FATHER'S JOURNEY tells the story of Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of youngest-ever Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, from his childhood growing up poverty-stricken in rural Pakistan to his own activism for feminism and right to education for all. He shares what he and his wife taught their daughter growing up, as well...