I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms
Nancy Shear was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through the stage door, and seventeen when
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hick
In this riveting YA non-fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, trace Lorena Hickok—or Hick’s—rise from devastating childhood
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Planet Police
Natalie Vellacott worked in Sussex Police for almost a decade, during which time she investigated almost every type of crime
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Darling Winston
Between 1881, when Churchill was just six, and 1921, the year of his mother’s death, Winston Churchill and Jennie Jerome
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Lenny, Flip, and Rickles
An uncensored history of standup comedy in Miami, Florida, and how it was a microcosm of the regional live comedy
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Corked with Marc Fennell
How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of
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The Defining Moment
In this dramatic and fascinating account, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his first 100 days in office
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The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm
Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least eleven men, has a grim past
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Suffer the Children
There have been monsters among us lurking in the darkest corners of America, preying on children since the first settlers
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Margaret Atwood: A Modern Mythmaker
In 1985, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale was published, joining the ranks of novels like 1984 and Brave New World in a growing canon
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