Biographies & Memoirs

A Childhood Filled with Music
Angel on My Shoulder: An Autobiography
by Natalie Cole, Digby Diehl
Sizzlingly talented, yet fragile... achieving, yet insecure... responsible, yet reckless-Natalie Cole has been there and done it all. Her comeback album won an unprecedented seven Grammys as her marriage collapsed into jealousy and abuse.

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The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp.

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
by Maya Angelou
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother.

The Capital of Nostalgia
Downtown; My Manhattan
by Pete Hamill
In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Forty-second Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places

The Surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu
Flaubert: A Biography
by Frederick Brown
From the highly acclaimed author of Zola: A Life comes the definitive biography of Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary.

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Here If You Need Me: A True Story
by Kate Braestrup
Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well.

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The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, she rededicates herself to writing, and finds love at an unexpected moment. Reflecting on her many

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Sunnyvale; The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
by Jeff Goodell
Splintered by their parent's divorce, Jeff and his siblings careen toward self-destruction, while their parents end up on opposite sides of the technological divide: their mother succeeds beyond her wildest dreams at 'a small company

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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has