Biography: General

Task Force Black

Mark Urban 2024
(4.5)

Soon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, l...

Black Milk by Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak 2024
(4.5)

An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life. After the birth of...

Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The...

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle 2024
(4.5)

For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman acr...

World of Wonders

Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
(4.5)

Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the YearA Kirkus Prize Finalist for NonfictionA Southern Book Prize FinalistAn NPR Best Book...

The Taliban Shuffle

Kim Barker 2024
(4.5)

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina,...

Before Taliban : Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

David B. Edwards 2024
(4.5)

In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Mu...

Kidnapped by the Taliban International Edition

Dilip Joseph 2024
(4.5)

Back Cover Copy: "Am I About to Die?"OnDecember 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues aredriv...

God-Level Knowledge Darts

Desus & Mero 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Desus & Mero are smarter and funnier than everyone writing books.”—Shea Serrano“I will neve...

This is Major by Shayla Lawson

Shayla Lawson 2024
(4.5)

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist in Autobiography * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award * Named one of the most...

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

Julia Baird 2024
(4.5)

The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and n...

A Knock at Midnight

Brittany K. Barnett 2024
(4.5)

An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief...

I Have Something to Tell You

Chasten Buttigieg 2024
(4.5)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic p...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou 2024
(4.5)

`This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women....

Once I Was You

Maria Hinojosa 2024
(4.5)

“Maria’s perspective is powerful and vital. Years ago, when In the Heights was just starting off-Broadway, Maria got the...

What Would Frida Do?

Arianna Davis 2024
(4.5)

"Frida Kahlo truly elevated confidence into an art form. In her book, Arianna Davis shows us the timelessness of Frida's...

The Dead Are Arising

Les Payne 2024
(4.5)

"No one who wishes to reckon with the life of this man, one of the most important African American figures of the twenti...

The Freedom Writers Diary

The Freedom Writers Foundation 2024
(4.5)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students...

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom 2024
(4.5)

This is a sweet book of a man's love for his mentor.  It has a stubborn honesty that nourishes the living."--Robert...

Eat a Peach

David Chang 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious--an intimate account of t...

His Truth is Marching on

Jon Meacham 2024
(4.5)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman Joh...

Memorial Drive

Natasha Trethewey 2024
(4.5)

"In Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey has transformed unimaginable tragedy into a work of sublimity. There's sorrow and...

Everything Beautiful in Its Time

Jenna Bush Hager 2024
(4.5)

Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the...

Educated by Tara Westover

Tara Westover 2024
(4.5)

Educated, in showing us the unstoppable power of a young woman determined to make her own decisions and find her own way...

Persepolis I & II

Marjane Satrapi 2024
(4.5)

I cannot praise enough Marjane Satrapi's moving account of growing up as a spirited young girl in revolutionary and war-...

Agent Sonya

Ben Macintyre 2024
(4.5)

The "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers...

Melania and Me

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff 2024
(4.5)

What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Gala...