The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller
Category: Biography
In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world.When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. Overnight, Yvonn ...Show more
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Duchess Goldblatt
Category: Biography
One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles--and that we can, against all odds, get through them." --Lori Gottlieb, New York Times-b ...Show more
Finding Chika: A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love by Mitch Albom
Category: Biography
Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of Memoir From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch A ...Show more
A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram by Patience Ibrahim
Category: Biography
When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to complete her family, and suddenly she found herself a nineteen-year-old widow, alone in the world. But when she fell in love again, a happy future seemed possible. Patience married once more ...Show more
Loving in Triangles Living in Squares by Licence Amy
Category: Biography
The lives of the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Inspired by European Post-Impressionism, Vanessa's experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her ro ...Show more
The Problem with Everything - My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum
Category: Biography
From "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time" (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild) comes a seminal new book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement.
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy by Christine Toomey
Category: Biography
A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that devastated the region 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerin ...Show more
Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis
Category: Biography
This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Russia.
CALL ME MRS BROWN by O'Carroll Brendan
Category: Biography
Before he became the nation's favourite Mammy, Brendan O'Carroll was known, simply as Brendan. He's the youngest of eleven children from a poor family in Dublin, he's a boy whose father died when he was just nine years old; he's someone whose hope and determination meant he never gave up. Throughout the ...Show more
Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami
Category: Biography
Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery. She partnered the King for yachting at Cowes and helped him choose presents for his wife Queen Alexandra while remaining calmly married to her complaisant ...Show more
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
Category: Biography
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma's first free general election in a generation. Acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, describes how, inspired by her leader ...Show more
Paul's Story: A Son's Struggle with Adoption, Schizophrenia and the Mental Health System by Mardie Townsend
Category: Biography
"Mental illness? Who wants to read about that?" Despite one in four people experiencing mental ill health in their lifetime, it is not a popular topic for conversation. Perhaps this book will change that! Combining amusing anecdotes, insights from research and heart-rending personal reflections, this bo ...Show more