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The Princess Diarist
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what...
Star Wars Princess Leia Carrie Fisher Harrison Ford Mark Hamilton
Memories of the high life, heart surgery and a Homer odyssey move The Guardian writer Kathryn Hughes:
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 – 1992
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The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in...
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing...
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic
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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second...
Hunger
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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the...
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Nicole Hadley (308 KP) rated Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands in Books
Jun 18, 2018
Abraham Ray (33 KP) rated George Washington the man who would not be king in Books
Jan 15, 2019
Tasia Boxill (12 KP) created a poll
Jul 26, 2018
Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II in Books
Dec 31, 2019
I loved this book. It's not just a biography of Audrey Hepburn but a biography of the time and place that made her who she was.
Robert Matzen does a stunning job of bring Audrey to life.
LucyB (47 KP) rated The Age of Bowie in Books
Jul 23, 2017
However, once it got going, it was great! A really novel take on the biography format, almost veering into fiction in places, which might not be for everyone, but I personally thought it worked very well.
Did I learn anything new? No. However, I enjoyed it immensely, and in places, it made me view David Bowie in a new light. I very much enjoyed it.