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40 Miles to Happy, the Love Story of a Rancher and his Wife by Vally Mulford

A heartfelt, lyrical, and deeply moving portrait of love, resilience, and ordinary lives… Mulford reflects on the quiet power of ordinary lives in this multigenerational memoir. “Even though the story that we each create will ultimately succumb to time… we…
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A Real Life American Dream: The John H. McClatchy Story by Susan Marie Chapman

Quietly authoritative, richly detailed, and deeply reflective—a vivid portrait of grit, enterprise, and family. In Chapman’s compelling work, a Philadelphia builder rises from childhood poverty to create one of the region’s most influential real estate empires. Born in Baltimore in…
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Aspiring Child: A Biography of Mary W. Shelley in Sonnets by Ted Morrissey

Quietly radical and intellectually precise. Morrissey blends poetic biography with quiet literary reflection in his latest book. Written as sonnets and prose addressed directly to Mary Shelley, the work forgoes a conventional life narrative in favor of a deeply human…
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Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell

A raw, and unsparing memoir that explores survival, family betrayal, systemic failure, and the fierce will to keep living when the world offers no safety. “Please, God, take the pain away,” Caldwell writes at the opening of the book, moments…
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Journal of the late Amelia Earhart by Frank Okolo

Technically precise, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable. Okolo delivers a chillingly plausible reimagining of aviation’s most famous mystery in his compelling novel. The book’s premise is simple but provocative: what if Amelia did not vanish into the Pacific but survived…
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Decoding the Unicorn: A New Look at Dag Hammarskjöld by Sara Causey 

Nuanced, Reflective, and Inspirational; a standout exploration of leadership and legacy. Causey masterfully explores one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic and influential figures, Dag Hammarskjöld, in his latest book. She portrays Hammarskjöld as an introverted leader who flourished in…
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The Things He Could Have Been: Stories of Babe Ruth by W Nikola-Lisa

A smart, rollicking narrative that delivers on all fronts… Nikola-Lisa’s latest book celebrates off-the-field shenanigans of the American professional baseball player, George Herman “Babe” Ruth, who largely because of his home-run hitting between 1919 and 1935, became, and perhaps remains…
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Love’s Labour’s Won: The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

A brilliantly constructed and superbly executed historical tale… Gray skillfully makes use of the scant biographical resources, bringing a sensible eye to Shakespeare’s life story in his debut. As Gray tells it, William Shakespeare was his parent’s first child to…
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Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives) by Danielle Jawando

  Informative, well-crafted… Jawando brings African-American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s biography as the second book in Little Guides to Great Lives series: small guides introducing children to the most inspiring figures from history in a…