Biography and Memoir

The 4 Word Answer: Who Are You in 4 Words?

Publication Date: 09/21/2021

If you are not living the life you want to live—the answer is just four words away. Working for the biggest stars in the world—Jennifer Lopez, P. Diddy, Alicia Keys, and Jessica Simpson, officially as a publicist but in reality, as a confidante—Rob Shuter has seen it all. In fifteen…

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Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

Publication Date: 09/21/2021

“Ruth Wisse’s intellectual autobiography is a lasting work of profound moral force and scathing political discernment.... Its illuminations are likely to be as urgent one hundred years hence as they are now.” —Cynthia Ozick A Jewish child born into the worst of times in Europe grows up during the best…

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Deep in the Woods: The 1935 Kidnapping of Nine-Year-Old George Weyerhaeuser, Heir to America’s Mightiest Timber Dynasty

Publication Date: 09/14/2021

It is a crime even the FBI must have considered fantastic and absurd. In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a tree, and…

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Barefoot to Benefactor: My Life Story of Faith and Courage

Publication Date: 09/14/2021

An Asian American immigrant’s journey from poverty in India to the heights of the medical profession in America—and the faith that made his accomplishments possible. When Lenny Peters was a boy playing marbles among the lush mangrove trees in impoverished India, he had one overriding wish: to be the best…

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A Complicated Jew: Selected Essays

Publication Date: 09/07/2021

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, historical—Hillel Halkin’s finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture are an education in themselves. Hillel Halkin is widely admired for his works of literary criticism, biography, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as for his celebrated achievements as a translator. Born and…

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From Prison Cells to PhD: It is Never Too Late to Do Good

Publication Date: 08/17/2021

A captivating story detailing how resilience and inner strength can be combined to overcome mountainous barriers to reach one’s full potential.  Growing up in Ferguson, Missouri, Stanley Andrisse began making poor decisions at a very young age. He started selling dope and was arrested for the first time at fourteen…

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Clarence Thomas: The Things He Learned

Publication Date: 08/03/2021

Clarence Thomas is a Justice of the Supreme Court, one of America’s most important jobs—but he was once a kid just like you! Building houses, planting a vegetable garden, driving his grandfather’s truck, and helping those in need…these are just a few things Clarence Thomas learned while growing up in…

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There Will Be Lobster: Memoir of a Midlife Crisis

Publication Date: 07/20/2021

You know her. You’ve seen her. You may even see yourself in her. If you’re arriving to the midlife crisis party—the one that’s serving low self-esteem, desperation, unreliable behavior, forgetfulness, carelessness, and the loneliness of loss—the stories and anecdotes in this memoir will assure you that you are not alone.…

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Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply

Publication Date: 07/06/2021

Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the “Promised Land,” and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart. In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator…

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Dinner With Eleanor

Publication Date: 06/29/2021

The saga of two strong women who built lives in America—culminating in a fateful dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt. Dinner With Eleanor is the story of Helen Niemtzow Pratt. In the early part of the twentieth century, Helen’s grandmother, Hannah, is disgraced after a divorce. She leaves the comfort of her…

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