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Biography and Memoir March 2026 |
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Stone Doll: An Immigrant's Memoir from War-Torn Italy to the American Dream by Toni BoucherStone Doll is the unforgettable memoir of an immigrant girl who refused to let hardship define her limits. Arriving in a country that promised everything but guaranteed nothing, young Toni watched her illiterate parents struggle to build a new life while family tragedies threatened to tear them apart. Yet through heartbreak and setbacks, she discovered an unbreakable spirit. From those humble beginnings emerged an unstoppable force: entrepreneur, political leader, philanthropist. Boucher would run seventeen political campaigns and win fifteen, rising to the highest levels of Connecticut state government. Try this next: The Husky effect : How UConn is Creating the Entrepreneurs of the Future by Toni Boucher.
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| Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America by Howard BryantSports journalist Howard Bryant's affecting history details how trailblazing Black actor Paul Robeson and Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson's differing political ideologies often put them at odds with each other, culminating in Robinson's 1949 appearance at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where he testified against Robeson. For fans of: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph.
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| Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung ChangIn Fly, Wild Swans, Chinese British memoirist and historian Jung Chang channels harrowing memories of her childhood during China’s Cultural Revolution. Years later she was banished from her native country after publishing an unsparing biography of Mao Zedong, a ruling which prevents her from returning to visit her dying mother. Readers may wish to pair this book with Chang’s previous bestselling memoir Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
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Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built by Gayle FeldmanAt midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on What's My Line? whom TV brought into America's homes each week. But they didn't know that the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and, a decade later, was. Using interviews with more than two hundred individuals, deeply researched archival material, and letters from private collections not previously available, this book brings Bennett Cerf to vibrant life, drawing book lovers into his world, finally laying open the page on a quintessential American original. Try this next: The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin.
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| Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Queen Without a Crownby Ann FosterCaroline of Brunswick, niece of Britain’s King George III, was chosen as queen-to-be for his profligate heir, George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales. Never mind that she was treated cruelly by George’s family and thoughtlessly cast aside soon after his coronation: the Regency royals were so detested by the British populace that Caroline quickly became a heroine of the emerging tabloid press. History podcaster Ann Foster dishes all the dirt. Try this next: The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London by Catherine Ostler. |
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| The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza GriffithsNovelist and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Promise) grapples with the twin tragedies of the highly publicized and near-fatal attack on her new husband Salman Rushdie and, less than a year earlier, the sudden death of her closest friend, poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who ironically passed away on Griffiths’ wedding day. For another emotional memoir about enduring wrenching loss, try Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River.
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard HolmesIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and highly emotional man haunted by the great intellectual and scientific issues of his time. You might also like: Keats : A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller.
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La Lucci by Susan LucciEmmy Award-winning actress Susan Lucci, affectionately known as "La Lucci" since her early days on All My Children, shares her second memoir, exploring her journey through love, joy, reinvention, and resilience in the face of profound loss, both personal and professional. Lucci's first memoir is All My Life: A Memoir.
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Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire by Julian SanctonThe riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver, and one man's obsessive quest to find it. Neptune's Fortune is a thrilling adventure, taking readers from great naval battles on the high seas to the sun-soaked shores that nurtured history's most notorious treasure hunters, to the archives that held the secret keys to lost fortune on the ocean floor. You might also like Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson.
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| Michelangelo and Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius by William E. WallaceArtistic competition bears creative fruit in art historian William E. Wallace’s dramatic tale of how the two giants of Italian Renaissance painting inspired each other to ever greater heights of accomplishment. Although they only met on two occasions, Wallace’s “captivating study” (Publishers Weekly) shows how each single-monikered master kept tabs on his rival through the intrigue-rich courts of local nobles and patrons, to the benefit of all. For further reading about both artists, try Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale, and Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces by Miles Unger. |
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