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Biographies

Accounts of notable people from writers passionate about their subjects. Selected by Ben W.

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25 items

  • Shine Bright

    a Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

    Smith, Danyel
    Book, 2022New York : Roc Lit 101, One World, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Triumph

    the Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

    Schaap, Jeremy
    Book, 2007Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Book, 2022New York : Abrams Press, 2022. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • His Name Is George Floyd

    One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    Samuels, Robert, 1984-
    Book, 2022[New York] : Viking, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • The Facemaker

    a Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Disability Visibility

    First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

    Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2020New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • The Escape Artist

    the Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

    Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Book, 2022New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Susan, Linda, Nina, & Cokie

    the Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

    Napoli, Lisa, 1963-
    Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    Book, 2021New York : Abrams Press, 2021. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Radioactive

    Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love & Fallout

    Redniss, Lauren
    Also available on eAudio.
    Book, 2010New York : !t Books, c2010. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    Book, 2010New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2010. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Imperfect Union

    How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

    Inskeep, Steve
    Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    Book, 2020New York : Penguin Press, 2020. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2014New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Invisible

    the Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

    Carter, Stephen L., 1954-
    Also available on eAudio.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2016New York : Random House, [2016] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Pipestone

    My Life in An Indian Boarding School

    Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929-
    Book, 2010Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Every Day Is a Good Day

    Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

    Mankiller, Wilma, 1945-2010
    Book, 2011Golden, Colorado : Fulcrum Publishing, [2011] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Why Fish Don't Exist

    a Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

    Miller, Lulu, 1983-
    Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — Adult Nonfiction Book