Must-Read Biography Books | December 2021

23 Dec 2021

Must-Read Biography Books | December 2021

In the mood for a new biography or memoir? Check out these instant bestsellers by N. Daniel, Frank Wheeler, Raj Rajaratnam, and more. Enjoy your new non-fiction picks!

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Burn This City to the Ground

by N. Daniel

Release Date: December 7, 2021

A heartwarming and endearing novel about unexpected friendships and the ability for one person to make a difference in someone else’s life. Told against the backdrop of social unrest and the ongoing struggles with the American healthcare system

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The Punisher

by Frank Wheeler

Release Date: December 11, 2021

Fred “Mad Dog” Tonks worked hard to turn his life around after his family was savagely murdered in front of him. He vowed to find the men who did it, and six years later, he’s still looking. Though now he has a sheriff’s badge to help him. A string of recent murders around Tightwater, Texas is providing new clues. And they’re leading Fred in a direction he never thought he’d go.

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Unacknowledged: The Possible Biological Mother of Howard Hughes

by Ora Smith

Release Date: November 27, 2021

Author and researcher Ora Smith may well be the great-niece of Howard Hughes. In this dramatized account of the story of the mysterious inventor, engineer, pilot, and ultra-rich recluse, she reveals detailed information and evidence that fill in some of history’s most mystifying blanks. With sections creatively retelling the narrative of the wealthy man’s possibly illicit beginnings juxtaposed with Smith’s meticulous pulling-apart of historical records, you’ll be moved by the sensational and wretched past of this enigmatic icon.

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Garbo: Her Life, Her Films

by Robert Gottlieb

Release Date: December 7, 2021

Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world’s subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible.

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Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon

by Raj Rajaratnam

Release Date: December 14, 2021

The inside story of a case that illustrates the horrific perils of unchecked prosecutorial overreach, written by the man who experienced it firsthand. A cautionary tale with implications for us all, Uneven Justice is both a riveting page-turner and an eye-opening lesson in the vagaries of justice when an unscrupulous prosecutor is calling the shots.

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Sea State

by Tabitha Lasley

Release Date: December 7, 2021

A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis. Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security.

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