<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Biographies."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Biographies."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/ngpl/rss/search?query=%22Biographies.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:52:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Spare]]></title><description><![CDATA["It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4460626</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4460626</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4460626192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039003750/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judy Blume]]></title><description><![CDATA[The highly anticipated biography of one of the world's most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics--including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Deenie; and Summer Sisters--touched the lives of tens of millions of readers. For more than fifty-five years her work has done something revolutionary: it rewired the world's expectations of what literature for young people can be--frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. But little is known about the real woman behind the iconic persona, and the unlikely journey of her literary ascension, until now. In Judy Blume, journalist, historian, and longtime Blume aficionado Mark Oppenheimer pens a beautiful, multidimensional portrait of the acclaimed author through extensive interviews with Blume herself, invaluable access to her papers and correspondence, and thoughtful analysis of Blume's beloved novels, including early, unpublished works that shed light on the pathbreaking writer she would become. Oppenheimer goes deep, exploring Blume's middle-class 1950s upbringing, complicated childhood, varied relationships and marriages, unabashed sexual experiences, bouts of heartache and loss, and enduring legacy as a champion of free speech and contemporary literature. Oppenheimer peels back the curtain to reveal the woman behind the literary empire in all her complex, multifaceted glory--a true gift for anyone who grew up reading and loving these extraordinary books.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5059028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5059028</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Oppenheimer, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5059028192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593714447/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War We Won Apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated wartime couples of WWII. On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d'Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing to go to war. From different worlds, they make their way to fight in Winston Churchill's secret army against the German forces and, unlike most involved in the world's deadliest conflict to date, to fight from behind enemy lines. Their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with the Special Operations Executive. Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, support the French resistance, and eventually...how to love each other. But not long after their hasty marriage, their love is tested by separation, by a titanic invasion-and by indiscretion. Written in vivid, heart stopping prose, we follow their stories of uncommon courage-as Sonia plunges into Nazi-occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to throw off German forces who knew she'd arrived, while at the same time participating in sabotage operations against them by night; and as Guy, in another corner of France, trains hundreds into a resistance army, fashioning himself a military leader, weapons instructor, and peacemaker all at once. Reconstructed from hours of unpublished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents, Ayed tells a story of sacrifice and youthful folly; a story about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportionately by the young. But more than anything, The War We Won Apart is a story about love: two secret agents who were supposed to land in enemy territory together, but were fated to fight the war apart.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4686693</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4686693</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayed, Nahlah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4686693192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735242067/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young fans will love learning about their favorite music icon, from her childhood on a Christmas Tree farm to her sold-out international Eras Tour"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4863012</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4863012</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Corey, Shana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4863012192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Superstar!</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217029556/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sea Captain's Wife]]></title><description><![CDATA[The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the author of The Widow Clicquot. Summer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win the race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit--into the most treacherous waters in the world. As their ship, Neptune's Car, left New York Harbor and sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk, delirious. The treacherous first mate, confined to the brig for insubordination, was agitating for mutiny. With no obvious option for a new captain and heartbroken about her husband, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced the crew to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. Determined to save the ship, the crew, and their future, she faces down the deadly waters of Drake's Passage. Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, The Sea Captain's Wife finally gives Mary Ann Patten--the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain -- her due. Mazzeo draws on new archival research from nineteenth-century women's maritime journals and on her own expedition to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica in search of Mary Ann's route. Thrilling, harrowing, and heroic, The Sea Captain's Wife is the story of one woman who, for love, would do what was necessary to survive.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5059047</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5059047</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mazzeo, Tilar J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5059047192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250352583/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dressmakers of Auschwitz]]></title><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4108391</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4108391</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adlington, Lucy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4108391192</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063118881/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift]]></title><description><![CDATA["From her humble beginnings as a teenage country singer to her record-breaking Eras Tour, Taylor Swift's career is incomparable both in her mastery over multiple genres and the pure scale of her fan base and success. By weaving effortlessly through country, rock, pop, indie, and folk music, Swift has created a style of her own. Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs is a comprehensive review of her entire songbook to date, covering all ten studio albums and more than 200 songs that tell a dramatic story of life, love, and triumph"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729059</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729059</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaleski, Annie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729059192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Stories Behind the Songs</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781667208459/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too Much and Never Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA["In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric.  Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.  A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald's place in the family spotlight and Ivana's penchant for regifting to her grandmother's frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's." --book jacket.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3920133</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3920133</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Trump, Mary L.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3920133192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How My Family Created the World&apos;s Most Dangerous Man</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982141462/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stranger in the Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store food and water to avoid freezing to death... Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a... detailed account of the why and how of his secluded life--as well as the challenges he has faced returning to the world."-- Publisher description.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3036553</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3036553</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Finkel, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3036553192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101875681/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightfoot]]></title><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3010432</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3010432</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennings, Nicholas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3010432192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735232556/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book and Dagger]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly formed--and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work--and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis--a tale that reveals the indelible power of the humanities to change the world.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729012</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729012</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Graham, Elyse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729012192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063417304/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022--after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth--Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. "I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life," he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4594823</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4594823</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isaacson, Walter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4594823192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982181284/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extraordinary Canadians]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Peter Mansbridge, the former anchor of CBC's The National, and Mark Bulgutch, former CBC producer, comes a collection of first-person stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation--kindness, compassion, courage, and freedom--and inspire us to do the same.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4562699</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4562699</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mansbridge, Peter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4562699192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories From the Heart of Our Nation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982134525/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born and Razed]]></title><description><![CDATA[“The impressive facade of the elite Grenville Christian College (GCC) hid a far darker truth. It was a cult hidden in plain sight. Born to staff at GCC, Beth Granger was removed from her parents’ care at the age of four, because they were deemed too sinful to raise her. When she was only five, the leaders declared war on Beth’s sin of gluttony. It would take her three decades to muster the courage to escape. And the pursuit for justice began…” – Back cover.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4843734</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4843734</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Granger, Beth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4843734192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Surviving the Cult Was Only Half the Battle</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781990688324/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Living Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible-how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life's diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity's role in shaping the fate of our planet and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens-but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn. With elegant, propulsive prose grounded in more than a decade of research, featuring appearances by Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin, bestselling author Jason Roberts tells an unforgettable true-life tale of intertwined lives and enduring legacies, tracing an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4997670</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4997670</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roberts, Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4997670192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385666817/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raised by A Serial Killer]]></title><description><![CDATA["One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history. In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, Raised by a Serial Killer is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729050</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729050</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Balascio, April]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729050192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Discovering the Truth About My Father</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982177034/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not My Type]]></title><description><![CDATA[An autobiography of journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. Includes transcripts of testimony in the defamation trial against Donald Trump.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4947149</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4947149</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carroll, E. Jean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4947149192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>One Woman Vs. A President</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250381682/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Elements of Marie Curie]]></title><description><![CDATA["The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. "Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science-Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally memorable outside it. Grieving Pierre's untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with X-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two US presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life. As Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of Galileo through the prism of his daughter, she approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy-from France's Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway's Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie's elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Ève's later recollection, "discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world." With the consummate skill that made bestsellers of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, and the appreciation for women in science at the heart of her most recent The Glass Universe, Dava Sobel has crafted a radiant biography and a masterpiece of storytelling, illuminating the life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729020</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729020</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sobel, Dava]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729020192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How the Glow of Radium Lit A Path for Women in Science</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802163820/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers]]></title><description><![CDATA[This poignant memoir of brotherhood, music and enduring love celebrates the profound bond between brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen and chronicles their musical journey with personal anecdotes, untold stories and never-before-seen photos.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729013</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4729013</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Van Halen, Alex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729013192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063265707/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ride of Her Life]]></title><description><![CDATA["The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years to live--but only if she "lived restfully." He offered her a spot in the county's charity home. Instead, she decided she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean just once before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men's dungarees, loaded up her horse, and headed out from Maine in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. She had no map, no GPS, no phone. But she had her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness. Between 1954 and 1956, Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, journeyed more than 4,000 miles, through America's big cities and small towns, meeting ordinary people and celebrities--from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers--a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher who loved animals as much as she did. As Annie trudged through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by her at terrifying speeds, she captured the imagination of an apprehensive Cold War America. At a time when small towns were being bypassed by Eisenhower's brand-new interstate highway system, and the reach and impact of television was just beginning to be understood, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4065962</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4065962</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Letts, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4065962192</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The True Story of A Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-chance Journey Across America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593414064/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian Women Now + Then]]></title><description><![CDATA["Canadian women have always been groundbreakers. They have made scientific discoveries, set sports records, challenged discrimination and so much more. In this unique look at Canadian history, award-winning children's writer Elizabeth MacLeod juxtaposes today's inspiring women with yesterday's trailblazers who paved the way in that field. The book is organized by profession and includes more than 100 women from science, the arts, sports, politics, activism, law, business and more. The selection of women reflects the country's diversity, with stories of women of colour, Indigenous women, Paralympians and women from the LGBTQ+ community."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4666216</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4666216</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[MacLeod, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4666216192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>More Than 100 Stories of Fearless Trailblazers</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781525300615/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trumpocracy]]></title><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3264123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3264123</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frum, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3264123192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Corruption of the American Republic</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062796738/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Did Ok, Kid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theatre career, difficult childhood and path to sobriety in his honest, moving and long-awaited memoir. Born and raised in Port Talbot - a small Welsh steelworks town - amid war and depression, Sir Anthony Hopkins grew up around men who were tough, to say the least, and eschewed all forms of emotional vulnerability in favor of alcoholism and brutality. A struggling student in school, he was deemed by his peers, his parents and other adults as a failure with no future ahead of him. But, on a fateful Saturday night, the disregarded Welsh boy watched the 1948 adaptation of Hamlet, sparking a passion for acting that would lead him on a path that no one could have predicted. With candour and a voice that is both arresting and vulnerable, Sir Anthony recounts his various career milestones and provides a once-in-a-lifetime look into the brilliance behind some of his most iconic roles. His performance as Iago gets him admitted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and places him under the wing of Laurence Olivier. He meets Richard Burton by chance as a young boy in his art teacher's apartment, and later, backstage before a performance of Equus as an established actor meeting his hero. His iconic portrayal of Hannibal Lecter was informed by the creepy performance of Bela Lugosi inDracula and the razor-sharp precision of his acting teacher. He pulls raw emotion from the stoicism of his father and grandfather for an unforgettable performance in King Lear. Sir Anthony also takes a deeply honest look at the low points in his personal life. His addiction cost him his first marriage, his relationship with his only child, and nearly his life - the latter ultimately propelling him toward sobriety, a commitment he has maintained for nearly half a century. He constantly battles against the desire to move through life alone and avoid connection for fear of getting hurt - much like the men in his family - and as the years go by, he deals with questions of mortality, getting ready to discover what his father called The Big Secret. Featuring a special collection of personal photographs throughout, We Did OK, Kid is a raw and passionate memoir from a complex, iconic man who has inspired audiences with remarkable performances for over sixty years.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5017142</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5017142</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hopkins, Anthony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5017142192</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668142592/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kingmaker]]></title><description><![CDATA["When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing -- and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes -- on both sides of the Atlantic - remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today. At age 20 Churchill's beloved daughter-in-law became a "secret weapon" during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler. After the war, she helped to transform Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli into Italy's 'uncrowned king' on the international stage and after moving to the US brought a struggling Democratic party back to life, hand-picking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency. Picked as Ambassador to France, she deployed her legendary subtle powers to charm world leaders and help efforts to bring peace to Bosnia, playing her part in what was arguably the high-water mark of American global supremacy. There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics, culture, and fashion whose lives she did not touch, including the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Aly Khan, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem, Ed Murrow, and Frank Sinatra."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4731727</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4731727</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Purnell, Sonia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4731727192</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Pamela Harriman&apos;s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593949122/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zelensky]]></title><description><![CDATA["The astonishing story of the war-time leader of Ukraine"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4401908</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4401908</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudenko, Serhiĭ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ngpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4401908192</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Biography</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509556380/MC.GIF&amp;client=ontlibconbib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>