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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
Clare Mulley

The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo.

393 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

306 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Bergdoll Boys: America’s Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers
Timothy W. Lake

A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century.

432 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Bibliophobia
Sarah Chihaya

Bibliophobia is an alternately searing and darkly humorous story of breakdown and survival told through books. Delving into texts such as Anne of Green Gables, Possession, A Tale for the Time Being, The Last Samurai, Chihaya interrogates her cultural identity, her relationship with depression, and the intoxicating, sometimes painful, ways books push back on those who love them.

214 pp. Hardcover - Biography

A Bon Voyage: Souvenirs of a month in Southwestern France - and back again
Monique Seyler

A memoir by Monique Seyler

83 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Citizen: My Life After the White House
Bill Clinton

A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.

446 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
József Debreczeni

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time―from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni. Translated by Paul Olchváry.

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024

244 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Didion & Babitz
Lili Anolik

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

National Bestseller; Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, the Washington Post

344 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.

311 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
Andrea Currie

Forcibly removed from her Indigenous family as a child, Andrea Currie journeys back to her Nation and the truth of who she is.

269 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021
Angela Merkel

Reflecting on politics in a time of increasing confrontation and division, Angela Merkel’s memoir offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power―and is a determined and timely plea for freedom.

New York Times & USA Today Bestseller

709 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Frighten the Horses
Oliver Radclyffe

A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes.

344 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Glory Edim

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

265 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
Julie Gilbert

A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.

384 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for an American Civilization
Sam Watters

The illustrated story of the life and times of architect Richard Morris Hunt, his forty-year career, and his impact on American culture after the Civil War.

312 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
Paul French

New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor–her one year in China.

298 pp. Hardcover - Biography

How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa

The story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.

301 pp. Hardcover - Biography

How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
Donald J. Robertson

An accessible and informative guide to the life of one of the greatest thinkers in history, and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives. Author Donald J. Robertson transports readers back to ancient Athens, expertly weaving together a page-turning account of a philosopher who eschewed material pleasures and stood by his beliefs, even in the face of controversy, with a steadfastness that ultimately resulted in his execution.

342 pp. Hardcover - Biography

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
Lucy Sante

An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York TimesThe Washington Postand Slate

226 pp. Hardcover - Biography

John Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

696 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl

A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.

165 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofHorse.

207 pp. Hardcover - Biography

One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy
Megan Williams

After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer.

209 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Reagan: His Life and Legend
Max Boot

Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician―America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.

Instant New York Times Bestseller; Best Books of 2024: The New YorkerThe Economist, Chicago Public Library

836 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Roman Year
André Aciman

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.

354 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Sisters in Science: A Riveting Historical Account of Women in Science with a Powerful Message of Sisterhood
Olivia Campbell

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany

384 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.

324 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
David Levering Lewis

National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis’s own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story.

368 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made
Michael Mandelbaum

An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao.

338 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Use of Photography
Annie Ernaux, Marc Marie

Serialized in The New Yorker. An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories.

Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

136 pp. Hardcover - Biography

When You're Ready: A Love Story
Kareem Rosser

An unforgettable and heartrending love story that will break your heart and piece it back together.

336 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Who's That Girl?
Eve with Katy Iandoli

The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

266 pp. Hardcover - Biography

William Penn: A Radical, Conservative Quaker
J. William Frost

This intriguing history fills significant gaps in writings about Penn―particularly concerning Penn’s faith and its intersection with his work as a statesman and politician. It will be of interest to those interested in William Penn, the history of Quakerism, and the history of religion in America.

237 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess
Meryl Gordon

A deeply researched biography of the socialite, political hostess, activist and United States envoy to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, from New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon.

485 pp. Hardcover - Biography

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