List Of Best Biographies - April 2024

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States.Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01CO34IQM
• ASIN: B01CO34IQM
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Spilled Milk: Based On A True Story

"Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful — and ultimately triumphant — story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." - Brown, Stacy. Interview with the Pocono Record Newspaper "Spilled Milk is a story about resilience. The strength of the human mind and will power to live a better life." - The Weekly Sparkle"Beautifully written, hauntingly real, Spilled Milk is a must read for any young adult today." - F.P Lione, AuthorBrooke Nolan is a battered chil... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00D9GY2BU
• ASIN: B00D9GY2BU

The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

“[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company   Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MQVT9TG
• ASIN: B01MQVT9TG
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina’s rising above her past, while fighting to keep her ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009NG18Z8
• ASIN: B009NG18Z8
• Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

• ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
• ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy

"Judith Pearson does a remarkable job of bringing one of America's greatest spies back to life. I highly recommend this story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense." —Patrick O'Donnell, Combat Historian and Author of Operatives, Spies, and SaboteursThe remarkable story of one of WWII’s greatest spies.Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer.After watching Hitler roll over Poland and France, she enlisted to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage organization. She w... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00KKT6D7A
• ASIN: B00KKT6D7A
• Manufacturer: Diversion Books

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078QTY62K
• ASIN: B078QTY62K
• Manufacturer: Crown

That Month in Tuscany

That Month in Tuscany . . .Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip. On a flight across the Atlantic headed for Italy, a drunken pity party and untimely turbulence literally drop Lizzy into Ren’s lap. It is the last thing she can imagine ever happening to someone like her. But despite their surface differences, they discover an undeniable pull between them. A pull that leads them both to remember who they had once been before... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00MSR5EJA
• ASIN: B00MSR5EJA
• Manufacturer: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

• ASIN: B00BL0O79I
• ASIN: B00BL0O79I
• Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

The Life We Bury

A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

Amazon Bestseller: #1 in Holocaust Biography and #1 in Holocaust Memoirs.In May of 1945, Joe Rubinstein walked out of a Nazi concentration camp. For over 70 years, his remarkable story was hidden from the world. Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers forced twenty-one year-old Icek "Joe" Rubinsztejn onto a crowded, open-air truck. The next day, several around him were dead. From there, things got worse for young Joe-much worse. Joe arrived at Auschwitz on April 30, 1942. It would be seven decades before he revealed how he survived several of the most notorio... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00VRZ40B2
• ASIN: B00VRZ40B2
• Manufacturer: Merry Dissonance Press

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story

This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illegal. She was seventeen when she gave birth. She was my mother.This book chronicles the effects the birth of an unwanted child had on three families and three generations. It takes you through the unsettling chain of events that followed when my mother’s family sent her away. It shares her fight for survival to care for us, and how she eventually gave up and left me wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078S2K5CT
• ASIN: B078S2K5CT
• Manufacturer: Daniella DeChristopher LLC

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008AK8FHM
• ASIN: B008AK8FHM
• ISBN: 1451695195
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Silent Wife: A gripping emotional page turner with a twist that will take your breath away

Would you risk everything for the man you loved? Even if you knew he’d done something terrible?‘A heart-wrenching and gripping tale. I was hooked from the very first page.’ Write Escape Lara’s life looks perfect on the surface. Gorgeous doting husband Massimo, sweet little son Sandro and the perfect home. Lara knows something about Massimo. Something she can’t tell anyone else or everything he has worked so hard for will be destroyed: his job, their reputation, their son. This secret is keeping Lara a prisoner in her marriage. Maggie is married to Massimo’s brother Nico and lives... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NBDMFWA
• ASIN: B01NBDMFWA
• Brand: Bookouture
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

Listography: The Game : May the Best List Win!

A new twist on the bestselling Listography journal series (over a million copies sold!), this game invites players to create and share lists based on fun and thought-provoking topics--from geography and pop culture to toothpaste

• UPC: 49366815

Lonely planet: lonely planet's ultimate travel: our list of the 500 best places to see... ranked - h: 9781760342777

Includes folded world map inserted between

• UPC: 46505783
• Rating: 4.0

To Do List in a Book - Best to Do List to Increase Your Productivity and Prioritize Your Tasks More Effectively - Non Dated / Undated - 5.5" X 8.5" (Rose Gold) : Daily Planner

To Do List In A Book - the daily planner.Color / Design Cover: Rose Gold Preview TO DO LIST IN A BOOK at www.todolistinabook.com Minimalistic and sophisticated.To Do List In A Book is an easier

• UPC: 796741480

The Girl on the Best Seller List

A satire of Peyton Place originally published in 1960 from the author of Spring Fire and The Damnation of Adam

• UPC: 50845755

The Biography of a Grizzly

This vintage book contains Ernest Thompson Seton s novel The Biography Of A Grizzly Bear . A heart-warming tale of the life of an orphaned bear cub, The Biography of a Grizzly Bear is a

• UPC: 53021479
• Rating: 4.5

The Complete Book of Baby Names: The Most Names, Most Lists, Most Help to Find the Best Name

Looks at the history of baby names, provides lists of names based on popular themes, and presents entries that include definitions and

• UPC: 21973709
• Rating: 4.0

The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists : The Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims

Lists plants that grow well in the different regions of the Southern States, including trees, perennials, ferns, annuals, vines, shrubs, azaleas, roses, and ground

• UPC: 243249

My Life as a Whore : The Biography of Madam Laura Evens

9781555664626

• UPC: 45758351

Top Disney : 100 Top Ten Lists of the Best of Disney, from the Man to the Mouse and Beyond

There is not a person on Earth who hasn’t come into contact with Disney in some way. Whetherseeing a Disney film, hearing a Disney song, recognizing a Disney character or visiting a Disneypark, the company’s

• UPC: 816366822

Tarzan Alive : A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip Jose Farmer

• UPC: 28318917
• Rating: 1.0