Biographies and Memoirs books

All Boys Aren’t Blue

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at...

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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

By: Eva Dillon

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War. In the summer of 1975,...

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Waco: A Survivor’s Story

By: David Thibodeau

The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch–Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau. Twenty-five years...

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Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids

By: David Kushner

A magnet for bullies at school, Jon Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until he discovered the trading-card game Magic: The Gathering. As Magic exploded from nerdy obsession into the mainstream, the teenage Finkel emerged as its first world...

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Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of DandD

By: David Kushner

Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a...

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Imperial Dancer: Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs

By: Coryne Hall

The vivacious Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. The real story, which this book will reveal lies in what Mathilde did not...

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With A Feather On My Nose

By: Billie Burke

The popular comediennes account of her theatrical career and her married life with Florenz Ziegfeld. This is the life story of an actress, a beautiful redheaded actress who lived and played in a glittering era now gone but fondly...

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The Expedition

By: Bea Uusma

In 1897 three men disappeared in the North Pole—only now have their final hours been revealed with this award-winning forensic investigation of a 120-year-old mystery On July 11th, 1897, three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for...

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