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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham Matar

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2017 Hisham Matar was 19 when his...

Libya Politics Biography

Alias Grace

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Directed by American Psycho's Mary Harron, Alias Grace is loosely based on the true story of Grace...

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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Dali in Books

Jan 15, 2018

This book wasn't what I thought. I bought it thinking it talked more about the paintings that were featured in it. That wasn't what it was at all. It was more of a condensed biography of Dali's life. It was an interesting read mostly because Dali was a fascinating character in the art world & the world in general.

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Deborah (162 KP) rated Katherine Swynford in Books

Dec 21, 2018

Not a bad book, but there's just so little really known about Katherine Swynford there's hardly enough to make a biography out of! I finished this feeling I had learned more about Margery Kempe than I had about Katherine Swynford. There were also several times when I found text repeated almost verbaitm from one section to another.

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Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention

John Cooper

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This book is the first complete biography of Raphael Lemkin, the father of the United Nations...

Derek Prince Legacy Radio

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Derek Prince Legacy Radio is hosted by best-selling author, Stephen Mansfield, author of The Faith...

Oliver Sacks recommended The Voyage of the Beagle in Books (curated)

"This is an all-time favorite for a Darwin lover. I can read it again and again and always find something new. Also, though the last 30 years have seen a veritable cataract of books about Darwin and Darwiniana, I keep returning to Janet Browne’s superb two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place."

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Irvine Welsh recommended Pimp: The Story of My Life in Books (curated)

Pimp: The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim, Irvine Welsh | 2009 | Biography

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"This biography, written with a novelist’s stylization, was an incendiary moment in western culture. Ironically, it became the weapon that would win the cultural wars for dispossessed black, urban America. It’s impossible to think of what street culture of white Hollywood would look like without it. Slim is the most influential writer in English since Shakespeare."

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