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Biographies and Memoirs

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Small Fry

By Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Biographies and Memoirs

“Dia menatapku dari majalah-majalah, koran-koran, dan layar-layar di kota mana pun aku berada. Itu ayahku dan tidak ada yang tahu, tapi itulah kenyataannya. Bagaimana sedihnya ditolak ayah sendiri? Getirnya harus merahasiakan fakta bahwa ayahmu salah satu orang paling terkenal di…

Shattered

By Jonathan Allen

Biographies and Memoirs

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone…

Shadow Commander

By Mike Guardia

Biographies and Memoirs

The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam. The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white…

Raised by a Serial Killer

By April Balascio

Biographies and Memoirs

The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this “engrossing and absolutely terrifying read” (San Francisco Chronicle) traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, while confronting…

Raising Hare

By Chloe Dalton

Biographies and Memoirs

This instant Sunday Times bestseller is the magical true story of a woman and an injured hare who taught her how to live again; it has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-fiction, has had multiple 'Book of the…

Patriot

By Alexei Navalny

Biographies and Memoirs

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR • The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate…

Paddy Mayne

By Hamish Ross

Biographies and Memoirs

'The best biography I've read recently' – Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent 'An excellent examination of Mayne... Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years' - History of War magazine 'This welcome reassessment, officially backed…

On Gold Mountain

By Lisa See

Biographies and Memoirs

From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life”…

Notorious

By Maureen Dowd

Biographies and Memoirs

"Juicy. . . . Dowd has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights."--Los Angeles Times "A pleasure. . . . Throughout, her experienced journalist's knack for colorful…