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Biography and Memoir May 2024
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| Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O'HeaAcademy Award-winning actress Judi Dench dishes on her seven-decade career (including roles in 20 of Shakespeare's plays) in this witty and engaging series of transcribed interviews with her longtime friend Brendan O'Hea, himself an actor at Shakespeare's Globe. Try this next: Making It So by Patrick Stewart. |
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Birding to change the world : a memoir
by Trish O'Kane
A writer and educator specializing in environmental justice and climate change chronicles her bird-watching journey and shares what she has learned from each new bird she's observed about life, social change and protecting the environment. .
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| An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns GoodwinIn this affecting blend of biography, memoir, and history, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin reveals the tumult of the 1960s as experienced by her husband, speechwriter Dick Goodwin, who died in 2018. Materials from the Goodwins' personal archives offer an evocative portrait of the era. Try this next: Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorensen. |
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| The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan PageAward-winning USA Today journalist Susan Page plumbs the life and career of legendary broadcast news pioneer Barbara Walters in this well-researched and incisive biography featuring interviews with dozens of Walters' loved ones and colleagues. Try this next: Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli. |
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| Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas ShakespeareIn this dramatic and richly detailed portrait of James Bond creator and naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming, novelist Nicholas Shakespeare (The Dancer Upstairs) utilizes never-before-seen Fleming family archival materials to craft "the definitive biography of the popular author" (Publishers Weekly). Further reading: The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters edited by Fergus Fleming. |
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