Biographies
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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaqu? Rodrigo
$45.00 Add to cartJoaqu? Rodrigo (1901-1999) is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the twentieth century–the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. It’s been featured in m
- Author: Suárez-Pajares, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324004452
- Language: English
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The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
$30.00 Read more“On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels–her times, eerily resembling our own.” –Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country
– 2022 Lambda L- Author: Katz, Jonathan Ned
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605162
- Language: English
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Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
$30.00 Read moreAcademy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962) — whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) — was in
- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Rode, Alan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813180430
- Language: English
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Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power
$20.99 Add to cartNPR’s Best Books of 2020
“Galvanizing and urgent….a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle.” –National Public Radio
A riveting true
- Author: Worley, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0062971328
- Language: English
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Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power
$32.00 Read moreThe stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity–by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365672
- Language: English
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Swimming with the Blowfish: Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride
$28.99 Read moreThe ultimate front-row seat to the rise, fall, and rebirth of a band that was–for a time–the biggest in the world, Hootie & the Blowish, and Jim Sonefeld’s shattering and redeeming spiritual path fr… [more below]
- Author: Sonefeld, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1635767679
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Read moreThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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World’s Great Men of Color, Volume I
$21.00 Add to cartThe classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.
World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most no- Series: World’s Great Men of Color #I
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0684815818
- Language: English
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Bede and the Theory of Everything
$25.00 Read moreAn accessible biography of the venerable Bede, regarded as the father of English history.
This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), the fo
A 2023 History Today Book of the Year- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Brown, Michelle P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147883
- Language: English
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The Mamas: What I Learned about Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me
$27.00 Add to cartCan white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?
“Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storyt- Author: Andrews-Dyer, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0593240316
- Language: English
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Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii
$14.99 Add to cartThe intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.
Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music
- Author: Mosesson, Måns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0751579025
- Language: English
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Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
$32.50 Add to cartA thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini–Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe–and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0062967258
- Language: English
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The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
$16.95 Read moreA compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Field-whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgotten-and h… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Robin Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1647420458
- Language: English
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The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
$18.99 Add to cartThis “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered d
- Author: Obmascik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 145167838X
- Language: English
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A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
$21.00 Add to cartThe poignant and moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in U.S. history.
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree–becoming the f- Author: Starita, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250181313
- Language: English
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Trophies and Scars: Ray Evernham
$34.95 Add to cartTrophies and Scars is the profoundly personal, sincere, and remarkably revealing story of the life and times of NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham. A son of the Jersey Shore, Evernham dedicated his lif
- Author: Evernham, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1642341460
- Language: English
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When Your Family Says No: The Journey to Freedom, Independence, and Happiness
$18.95 Add to cartAs the fourth daughter of a prominent Orthodox Jewish family in New York, I was expected to attend a religious seminary for girls, date the suitors that my father arranged, become engaged by 1
- Author: Martinez, Laya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0578592169
- Language: English
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The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful
$15.95 Add to cartThe award-winning, laugh-out-loud, reach-for-the-tissues story of an autistic boy’s desperate struggle to survive a deadly illness and the backyard chicken who transforms his life into a tale of impro… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Kristin Jarvis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1941887007
- Language: English
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Panzram: A Journal of Murder
$24.95 Add to cartA detailed memoir and self-analysis by a mass murderer. Panzram was born in 1891 on a Minnesota farm and died in 1930 on the gallows at the U.S.Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Imprisoned for m… [more below]
- Series: Journal of Murder
- Author: Gaddis, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1878923145
- Language: English
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Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor
$18.95 Add to cartEnamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse’s spectacular rolling hills in ea
- Author: Burnside, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163864005X
- Language: English
