Biography & Memoir

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  Prison Letters

  Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter, Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela

  Paperback

  An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century.

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  Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

  Mary Norris

  Hardcover

  The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love and the wine-dark sea.

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  Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

  Yuval Taylor

  Hardcover

  Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends—until they weren’t.

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  Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

  Rüdiger Safranski, David Dollenmayer

  Paperback

  This sterling biography of Germany’s greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.

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  Limits of the Known

  David Roberts

  Paperback

  A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.