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Biography New Releases

  • The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
  • A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
  • The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
  • In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
  • Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
  • The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

  • Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
  • Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress
  • The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945
  • Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
  • Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II
  • The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad Into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force

  • Real Girl
  • Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
  • Scipio Africanus: The First Imperator
  • Ιθάκη
  • Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born
  • Galaxy Mapper: The Luminous Discoveries of Astrophysicist Hélène Courtois