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Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
June 6, 2020The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
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The Bolter by Frances Osborne
June 5, 2020She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
June 3, 2020It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
June 1, 2020"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
May 31, 2020For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
May 30, 2020There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
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A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
May 30, 2020Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
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Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
May 26, 2020“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
May 26, 2020Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
May 24, 2020If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...