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New BiographiesOctober 2016
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The job : true tales from the life of a New York City cop
by Steve Osborne
A retired NYPD lieutenant shares the most entertaining and engrossing true stories from his two decades on the beat, including when he mistook a dentist as an armed robbery suspect and a strange request made by the mother of a suspected criminal.
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The pigeon tunnel : stories from my life
by John Le Carré
The author of such best-selling suspense novels as A Delicate Truth shares personal anecdotes from his life, discussing subjects ranging from his Cold War-era service in British intelligence to his work as a writer in Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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Jean Cocteau : A Life
by Claude Arnaud
Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer.
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John Aubrey : my own life
by Ruth Scurr
A remarkable book about the first modern biographer, reimagining what a biography can be, serves as a personal diary of Aubrey's days that is composed of his own words, collected, collated and enlarged upon by a renowned historian, writer and literary critic in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination.
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Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
by Robert Kanigel
Chronicles the life of a noted activist who wrote seven groundbreaking books, including her most famous, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; saved neighborhoods; stopped expressways; was arrested twice; and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates - all of which she won.
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The Fall of the House of Wilde : Oscar Wilde and His Family
by Emer O'Sullivan
A first-ever biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu finally tells the whole story of one of the most prominent characters of the late 19th century whose trial for indecency heralded decadence's demise - and his own.
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I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir
by Nadja Spiegelman
The daughter of Maus creator Art Spiegelman and New Yorker art director Francoise Mouly describes the coming-of-age discovery of her mother's complicated childhood, her investigation into four generations of family women and her own efforts to reinvent herself in New York.
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When in French : love in a second language
by Lauren Collins
Describing how, after moving to Geneva, the author decided to learn French in order to become closer to her husband and his family, a laugh-out-loud effort marked by the complexities of the language, the nature of French identity and her growing appreciation for French-specific communication nuances.
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Please enjoy your happiness
by Paul Brinkley-Rogers
A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent recounts his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959 when he was a sailor.
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Fashion is freedom : a girl from Tehran and her rise to the runway
by Tala Raassi
Fashion designer Raassi recounts her journey from Iran, where she was a rebellious teenager pining for artistic expression, to the U.S., where she created her swimwear line. The book begins in 1998 with a startling account of her 16th birthday party, when Raassi was arrested by military police for wearing a miniskirt and punished with 40 lashes. This traumatic event shaped her vision to "celebrate a woman's choice to wear whatever she desires, without the fear of being judged or punished."
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The true believer : Stalin's last American spy
by Kati Marton
Traces the life of American traitor Noel Field, who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and 1940s before he was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his Communist comrades, sharing insight into his decision to defect in spite of his privileged background and Ivy League education. By the award-winning author of Enemies of the People.
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Swimming in the sink : An Episode of the Heart
by Lynne Cox
An inspiring open-water swimmer, who swam the English channel and endured 32-degree water off of Antarctica, all without a wetsuit, discusses her diagnosis with a dangerous heart condition and her eventual full surrender to her increasing physical frailty, to her illness, her treatment and her slow pull toward recovery.
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His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
by Joseph Lelyveld
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author comes an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion.
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Marconi : the man who networked the world
by Marc Raboy
Marc Raboy gives us the first real account of Marconi's vital role as the wizard of wireless, industry developer, and consummate political insider. Raboy's impeccably researched biography will help guide histories of global media in the years ahead.
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