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Biography and Memoir March 2017
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| My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King, as told to Barbara ReynoldsOver the course of many years, Coretta Scott King's close friend, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, recorded interviews with King about her experiences. In My Life, My Love, My Legacy, Reynolds assembles these accounts into an authorized biography. From her childhood in segregated Heiberger, Alabama through her college days in Ohio and her classical music studies in Boston, Coretta aspired to be a professional musician. That changed after Martin Luther King Jr persuaded her to marry him, build a family together, and return South to combat Jim Crow. This up-close, graceful narrative offers a vivid depiction of the Kings' lives, especially Coretta's, and the Civil Rights movement. |
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Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
by Bret Baier
Fox News Channel’s chief political anchor and the host of the #1 rated Special Report With Bret Baier explores the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower through the lens of his last three days in office in January 1961, revealing Ike to be a model of strong yet principled leadership that is desperately missing in America today.
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Nicotine
by Gregor Hens
Addressing a lifelong addiction, an ex-smoker reflects on his experiences as a smoker from a young age and investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behavior, deconstructing every facet of dependency and offering a brilliant analysis of the psychopathology of addiction.
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Rise : how a house built a family
by Cara Brookins
Tells the amazing story of a woman who, having escaped an abusive marriage but having no home to live in, enlisted the help of a small bank loan and a work crew consisting only of her and her four children to build a family home from the ground up, in the amazing story of the healing of a broken family.
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Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
by Sybrina Fulton
An intimate and inspiring portrait of Trayvon Martin shares previously untold insights into the movement he inspired from the perspectives of his parents, who also describe their efforts to bring meaning to his short life through the movement's pursuit of redemption and justice.
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Contemporary and Historic Women
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| Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin DowneyWhen Europe was beginning its transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, one of the most powerful monarchs was Isabella I of Castile. Though she's typically named second in the pair "Ferdinand and Isabella," she was the sovereign Queen, who unified Spain in an era of frequent wars, forced Moors and Jews to convert to Catholicism under threat of banishment, and funded Columbus' voyages to the Western Hemisphere on behalf of Spanish expansion. In Isabella, historian Kirstin Downey demonstrates why she was one of the most significant women in history. This detailed, engaging portrait displays the queen's "fingerprints on Renaissance culture and religion" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
by Megan Marshall
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller traces the private life of revered American poet Elizabeth Bishop, drawing on insights from a newly discovered cache of letters to her psychiatrist and three lovers to illuminate her dark childhood and secret passions.
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| The Bolter by Frances OsborneIn 1982, when author Frances Osborne was 13, she was reading the London Sunday Times when she found a compelling photo showing an elegant woman, Idina Sackville, framed between two elephant tusks. When Frances' parents saw what she had discovered, they broke the news to her that the notorious Idina was her great-grandmother. This revelation eventually led Frances to trace Idina's life and write The Bolter -- a choice of title that reflects Idina's nickname, inspired by her serial marriages and over-the-top behavior. For more on the prominent but often unconventional Sackville family, try Juliet Nicolson's A House Full of Daughters. |
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| Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna WhitelockKing Henry VIII of England's first child to survive past infancy was a girl: Mary Tudor's birth was a disappointment and the lack of surviving brothers a source of consternation to her father. Declared a bastard by King Henry, she fought to take the throne as Mary I while asserting her Catholic faith. Biographer Anna Whitelock paints her as a tenacious survivor who demonstrated her intelligence and administrative abilities as queen. If you're a fan of women's history or an English history buff, you'll find this vivid, engaging account riveting. |
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
by Janet Wallach
Though Hetty Green, a woman as rich as John D. Rockefeller, was equally praised and derided during her life, she's nowhere near as well known today, despite the perennial popularity of biographies of other Gilded Age financiers including Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan. Offering insight into Green's extremely frugal ways -- after she was abandoned by her mother as a child, Quaker values marked her life -- and the investment practices that caused her to be alternately heralded and denounced, author Janet Wallach provides an evenhanded and enjoyable account of an incredibly successful and admittedly eccentric woman. For another recent biography of Green, read Charles Slack's Hetty.
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