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Biographies and Memoirs

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Slow Noodles

By Chantha Nguon

Biographies and Memoirs

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. With over 20…

Rough Sleepers

By Tracy Kidder

Biographies and Memoirs

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains…

Orlando

By Virginia Woolf

Biographies and Memoirs

'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth! Truth! Truth!' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.' A young man in the court of…

Manhunt

By Peter Maas

Biographies and Memoirs

The bestselling author of "Serpico" reveals the full, true-life story of Edwin P. Wilson, the rogue CIA agent whose far-reaching corruption reached deep into the sensitive corridors of America's intelligence community.