Biography & Memoir
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Hardback
The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country
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The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Hardback
The riveting saga of the Seabrooks of New Jersey, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Hardback
A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood
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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
Hardback
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
eBook
The first major biography of the French New Wave filmmaker hailed as “one of the Gods of Cinema” by Martin Scorsese