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Jonathan Eig
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include…
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington…
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A major new biography of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
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Hailed as "the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King's life in a generation" by the Washington Post, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this…
The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new…
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Banning Lyon
An incredible memoir about one man's journey to heal from trauma through chosen family, friendship, and nature.
Banning Lyon was your average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He enjoyed skateboarding…
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This detailed, authoritative account of one of the most important seasons in baseball history chronicles the day when, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and played first base…
The story of the extraordinary characters behind the invention of the contraceptive Pill
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A Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2014 * A Slate Best Books 2014: Staff Picks * A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2014 The fascinating story of one of…
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year The definitive biography of an American icon…
Drawing on hundreds of new interviews and previously unpublished letters, this authoritative, comprehensive biography of New York Yankee Lou Gehrig–the Iron Horse –reveals one of the greatest baseball players of…
Lola’s grandfather does the best pigtails ever. But her principal isn’t so sure.
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Lola and her friends even the score.
Darcy Wakefield,Jonathan Eig
Now in paperback-Darcy Wakefield’s beautifully written, courageous memoir-the November 2005 BookSense Notable pick that grabs your attention and never lets you go -about living a rich, meaningful life in the…
Lola wants a dog, but she’s got some convincing to do.
A fourth book in the Lola Jones series about this energetic, compassionate, and funny third-grader who manages to teach the reader as she herself learns not only the words to…
