Browsing: Notable Women

Authors

Lucky

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The timeless, fearless, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Lovely Bones–a powerful account of her…

20th Century

Prague Winter: Enhanced Edition

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A New York Times bestseller: As a child, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright grew up in the shadow of World War II. In this intimate mix of history and memoir, her “vivid storytelling and measured analysis bring this tragic era to life” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Bestsellers

The Splendid and the Vile

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A #1 New York Times bestseller, named a Best Book of 2020 by the New York Public Library, Time, Bloomberg, and more! The author who became a legend of the historical nonfiction genre with The Devil in the White City chronicles the leadership of Winston Churchill amid the drama of the London Blitz. “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers” (NPR).

Biographical Fiction

America’s First Female Serial Killer

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Known as one of the first female serial killers, Jane Toppan used her occupation, nursing, to gain access to her victims. Learn her chilling story in this “complex — and terrifying — portrait of a killer who seemed almost doomed from birth” (Kate Winkler Dawson, author of American Sherlock).