On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
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Category: REM Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.' It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with h ...Show more
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
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Category: REM Biography
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, "On the Move" is infused with h ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman
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Category: REM Biography
On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood c ...Show more
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
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Category: REM Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius. Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
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Category: REM Biography
The acclaimed memoir of a son's search for the truth behind his father's disappearance--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York ...Show more
H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
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Category: REM Biography
* Winner the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize* #1 Bestseller in the UK* A "Guardian" and "Economist" Best Book of the Year When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer--Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood--she'd never before been tem ...Show more
RASPUTIN FAITH POWER AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE ROMANOVS by SMITH DOUGLAS
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Category: REM Biography
On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and f ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
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Category: REM Biography | Reading Level: very good
Hilarious, wry, and charming tales of bookselling in remotest Scotland "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, New York Times The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookst ...Show more
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite by Laura Freeman
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Category: REM Biography
At the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. She had seized the one aspect of her life that she seemed able to control, and struck different foods from her diet one by one until she was starving. But even at her lowest point, the one appetite she never lost was her love of reading. ...Show more
Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters
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Category: REM Biography
No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's gr ...Show more
An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold by Mary Hoban
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Category: REM Biography | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Julia Sorell was an original. A colonial belle from Tasmania, vivacious and warm-hearted, Julia's marriage to Tom Arnold in 1850 propelled her into one of the most renowned families in England and into a circle that included Lewis Carroll and George Eliot. Her eldest daughter became a bestselling noveli ...Show more
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela; Sahm Venter (Editor); Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (Foreword by)
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Category: REM Biography
From The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela