<?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[bl results for subject:(biography)   isolanguage:"eng" audience:"adult" contentclass:"NONFICTION" formatcode:(BK ) oo:"false"]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for subject:(biography)   isolanguage:"eng" audience:"adult" contentclass:"NONFICTION" formatcode:(BK ) oo:"false"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/tpl/rss/search?query=subject%3A%28biography%29%20%20%20isolanguage%3A%22eng%22%20audience%3A%22adult%22%20contentclass%3A%22NONFICTION%22%20formatcode%3A%28BK%20%29%20oo%3A%22false%22&amp;searchType=bl&amp;origin=header-navigation&amp;custom_edit=true&amp;suppress=true&amp;f_NEWLY_ACQUIRED=PAST_180_DAYS&amp;f_CIRC=CIRC&amp;sort=newly_acquired&amp;title=New%20Biographies&amp;_gl=1%2Awnrnb5%2A_ga%2AOTUwODI4MTk0LjE3NjE4MzIzMTY.%2A_ga_G99DMMNG39%2AczE3NjI0MzgyMzQkbzkkZzEkdDE3NjI0Mzg2MTYkajU5JGwwJGgw&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:51:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Defector]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Defector is the untold story of how the defection of KGB agent Oleg Lyalin led to the expulsion of more than a hundred Soviet spies from Britain. At the heart of Lyalin's story is a narrative entwined with lies, disinformation, Kremlin deception campaigns, paranoia, intelligence failures by the CIA and MI5, and a tangled love life. Unravelling amidst a Soviet mission to plant fake Kremlin 'defectors' within British and American intelligence agencies, this story reveals how the secrets Lyalin divulged, resulted in one of the most dramatic and pivotal moments in the Cold War. Lyalin led MI5 to rethink its relationship with the CIA and, ultimately, helped destroy the reputation of the US agency's head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton. Drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, dozens of interviews with spymasters, and told in full here for the first time by one of Britain's leading commentators on national security, this story reveals how during the darkest moments of the Cold War one of the West's greatest achievements transpired as a result of MI5's break with the CIA. The disclosure of the inside story of this historic event also comes at a time when there is a renewed tension in the relationship between transatlantic spy services - from the intelligence they share or hold back, to the way they respond to their political masters and stand up to threats from Russia."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4726908</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4726908</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kerbaj, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4726908234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Untold Story of the KGB Agent Who Exposed the CIA and Saved MI5</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443477819/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall]]></title><description><![CDATA["Veteran journalist Whit Fraser recounts the stories behind the stories in this collection of tales drawn from fifty years of reporting on nation-changing events. From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall is a sweeping memoir from veteran journalist and northern chronicler Whit Fraser, tracing a lifetime spent at the front lines of the events that shaped modern Canada. From his youth in Nova Scotia to decades reporting across the Arctic, Fraser offers a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of major national turning points-stories he reported on up close, but never fully had the chance to tell until now. Fraser brings readers into the cold, stunned morning when the Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 rained nuclear debris across the Northwest Territories, igniting one of the most secretive international military operations in Canadian history. He revisits the tragedy of the Ocean Ranger, one of the world's most advanced oil rigs that became the site of an unthinkable disaster. On Parliament Hill, he reports from inside the storm of the National Energy Program and the tense constitutional negotiations that affirmed Indigenous rights while dividing the nation anew. Woven throughout is Fraser's personal journey-his years living in the North, his friendships with leaders who transformed the political landscape, and his partnership with Mary Simon, whose swearing-in as Canada's first Indigenous Governor General brings his story full circle. Anchored by vivid reporting and personal reflection, From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall is a powerful journey through the people, politics, and places that have defined Canada-and the shifting landscape of journalism itself."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4726954</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4726954</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fraser, Whit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4726954234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories of Canada</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771624695/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memoir of A Collection]]></title><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4734086</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4734086</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kasher, Steven]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4734086234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Finding Meaning Through Art</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780789215307/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rough Side of the Mountain]]></title><description><![CDATA["Long before Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to prominence in politics, she was a daddy’s girl from the west side of Atlanta—the baby of her family, who did well in school, though she talked too much in class; an outgoing kid who dreamed of growing up to be elegant and charismatic like her parents, cool like her older siblings and big cousins, and the pride of her very large Southern family.  After law school, Bottoms worked as an attorney, served as a judge, and was elected to City Council and the mayorship, where she garnered national attention for her leadership during the pandemic and George Floyd protests. Later, she was appointed senior advisor in President Joe Biden’s administration.  Yet Bottoms felt disquieted internally. She was in her early fifties and approaching the age her beloved father was when he died. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something in her life was missing, like she’d forgotten to bring an essential element of herself along for her ascension. Stepping away from the daily political grind, Bottoms realized how much she’d sanded down parts of herself on her path to professional success. She’d tucked away the fuller details about her dad’s drug abuse and prison stint for dealing; the sexual abuse she endured; the eating disorder she developed; the close-knit, utterly unpolished family who doted on her and gave her an incredible foundation of love and confidence but whose influence she’d smoothed to a sleek, charming, campaign-ready sheen. She thought that was the price of upward mobility. Then she realized she was wrong."--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4733804</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4733804</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bottoms, Keisha Lance]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4733804234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063420083/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Muslim 100]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book provides a readable and fascinating exploration of Muslim history, culture and civilisation. It briefly introduces you to the best of Muslim thought and helps develop an appreciation of Muslim minds, creativity and achievements through brief biographies of some of the most prominent Muslims."--]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752969</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752969</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mogra, Imran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4752969234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. Volume 3</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781847742667/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Muslim 100]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book provides a readable and fascinating exploration of Muslim history, culture and civilisation. It briefly introduces you to the best of Muslim thought and helps develop an appreciation of Muslim minds, creativity and achievements through brief biographies of some of the most prominent Muslims. It begins with Muhammad (ﷺ), the Prophet and ends with Muhammad Ali, the boxer and philanthropist. Anyone interested in gaining a closer and multi-dimensional view of Islam as a global faith and culture, through its rulers, theologians, scholars, politicians, architects, scientists, spiritual guides, philanthropist and writers, should read this book. "--]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752967</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752967</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mogra, Imran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4752967234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. Volume 1</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781847742629/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Muslim 100]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book provides a readable and fascinating exploration of Muslim history, culture and civilisation. It briefly introduces you to the best of Muslim thought and helps develop an appreciation of Muslim minds, creativity and achievements through brief biographies of some of the most prominent Muslims."--]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752970</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752970</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mogra, Imran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4752970234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. Volume 4</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781847742759/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Muslim 100]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book provides a readable and fascinating exploration of Muslim history, culture and civilisation. It briefly introduces you to the best of Muslim thought and helps develop an appreciation of Muslim minds, creativity and achievements through brief biographies of some of the most prominent Muslims."--]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752968</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4752968</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mogra, Imran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4752968234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. Volume 2</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781847742643/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[When We See You Again]]></title><description><![CDATA["On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love—and, in that moment, her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next eleven months, she and her husband, Jon, would work tirelessly—in public and behind the scenes—to secure the hostages’ release, to breathe some humanity into the situation while they were experiencing relentless emotional and psychological torment. The power of her raw and fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she would also become the face of its ultimate cost. In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us, and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience has been extreme, but at its essence, this is a universal story of trying to live with grief. It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4746550</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4746550</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goldberg-Polin, Rachel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4746550234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217198009/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World of Leonard Cohen]]></title><description><![CDATA[This edited volume examines the life, work, and legacy of Canadian songwriter, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen. Contributions from international scholars and writers explore Cohen's artistic career across multiple disciplines, including music, literature, and film. The book addresses key themes and influences in Cohen's work, such as religion, spirituality, popular music traditions, and Canadian and global literary culture, providing a comprehensive critical overview of his enduring cultural impact.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4762840</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4762840</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4762840234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781009350594/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earned]]></title><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4744523</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4744523</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pronger, Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4744523234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The True Cost of Greatness From One of Hockey&apos;s Fiercest Competitors</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781637635025/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Town Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA["Appalachia-a distinctly American landscape, dense with forests and small churches, rich in history and misunderstandings-has been the great setting for Jayne Anne Phillips's work. She grew up in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia and has always kept it close, even as she and her boundless imagination have traveled. In these essays, Phillips brings us into her childhood and family, most movingly her mother. She recreates the place she calls home, both its history and its foundational truths. She traces her journey across the country in search of love and work and belonging, and offers insights into the fellow writers and cultural touchstones that helped shape her path. From the local beauty salon to the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud, from Jean Shrimpton and Barbara Stanwyck to Stephen Crane and Breece D'J Pancake, Jayne Anne ponders her relationship with inspiration, religion, culture, and the troubled annals of the last American centuries. Tender, inviting, sparkling with wisdom and open-heartedness, Small Town Girls is a portrait of an inimitable artist as well as a love letter to the place and the people who have made her who she is"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4734132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4734132</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Phillips, Jayne Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4734132234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Writer&apos;s Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593804933/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mon Cher Amour]]></title><description><![CDATA["The impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize-winning author and the renowned Spanish-French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affair-a bestseller in France translated for the first time into English. Albert. Albert chéri. Write me sweet, passionate things. Tell me you love me and how you love me. Tell me you'll take me to the sea one day-any sea at all-and that we'll spend time on the shore and in the water. Tell me you'll always be with me. Tell me about you, and today, especially, talk to me about us. -Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Feb 1, 1950 It's said that the affair began on June 6, 1944, the day the Allied forces landed in Normandy. The twenty-one-year-old Casarès was starring in a production of the thirty-year-old Camus's play The Misunderstanding-and one thing (an afterparty hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) led to another. Though their fling would be cut short by the end of the Occupation-and the return to Paris of Camus's wife, Francine-the two were destined to meet again: four years later, to the day, they crossed paths by chance on boulevard Saint-Germain. Over the next twelve years, without interruption-until the car wreck of January 4, 1960 that stole Camus's life-the author and actress would correspond furiously, their words swelling and shimmering and surging like the ocean. Ah! It's so hard to leave you, your dear face will again fade into the night, but I'll find you once more in this ocean you love, at the time of evening when the sky takes on the color of your eyes." -Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, June 1, 1949 Across 865 letters of immense and exquisite emotion, they cry and laugh and bicker and beg, make and break promises, talk Stendhal and Proust and Orwell, French theater, sickness, death, writer's block, and, most of all, they pine-leaving behind a record of one of the great love stories of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4734123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4734123</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4734123234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès, 1944-1959</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525656616/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walrus]]></title><description><![CDATA["David Garrick, aka Walrus Oakenbough, possessed a rare fearlessness in the face of danger in his work as an eco-warrior, journalist and mystic. Garrick participated in high profile activist campaigns beginning in the early 1970s in the counter-culture of Vancouver. He met Paul Watson, known as the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and the brothers-in-arms shared in life altering adventures including Greenpeace's inaugural whale and Harp seal campaigns and a protest against the BC government's wolf cull. Garrick was a visionary who understood the need to bring disparate groups of ecologically and environmentally concerned people together to create a powerful voice. His experiences at Wounded Knee in 1973 strengthened his resolve to coordinate Aboriginal concerns within the context of larger environmental issues and he spent the rest of his working years engaging with First Nations in British Columbia and across Canada and into the US. Deftly woven into this biography are highlights of Garrick's rich mystical life, which began in childhood with visions of unearthly beings and permeated all of his activities. He felt a particular empathy for earth's creatures, which intensified during the 25 years he spent living off the grid on remote Hanson Island. Here his life's work culminated in documenting thousands of culturally modified trees (CMTs), in coordination with local First Nations, and resulted in a ground-breaking report produced by the Western Wilderness Committee. His findings provided support for the Namgis Nation's territorial claims of Hanson Island and played a critical role in halting logging on the island. A fascinating look at the largely unrecognized work of David Garrick, whose intense and unflagging dedication to protecting the earth and its creatures is an inspiration for those who wish to make today's world a better place."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4735303</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4735303</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Catherine Marie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4735303234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Remarkable Life of Eco-warrior David Garrick</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781553807414/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rolling Stones]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band All great music is a threat. What left is there to say about The Rolling Stones? A hell of a lot, it turns out. Bob Spitz has brought his indefatigable energy and five decades of experiences in the fields and hollows of rock 'n' roll to bear on his five-year journey to reexamine one of popular music's greatest stories. There are myriad revisions to the conventional narrative which underscore just how in control of that narrative the band has been up to now-small example: no, Muddy Waters was not mopping the floors at Chess Records when the Stones showed up. But in a larger sense, as with the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, Spitz's greatest gift is for the big picture. He knows where the magic is, and why it is. He is as clear-eyed a connoisseur of the show business, the spectacle and the collateral damage of this whirlwind as anyone alive, and that lucid gaze pierces a lot of incrusted bullshit, but the ultimate goal is to connect with a creative force whose power shows no signs of fading, over sixty years on. At its heart the story is about two boys, Mick and Keith, and their unique, fraught, alchemical bond, often tested, never sundered. The Glimmer Twins. The bandmates, like Charlie Watts, who found their groove in relation to this double star made the trip intact, while those who struggled, like Brian Jones and Mick Taylor, were chewed up and spit out. This is a story with many dark corners, including a surprising number of deaths. But whether Jagger and Richards sold their souls to the devil is at the crossroads for blues greatness or just squeezed their heroes for every drop of inspiration, in the end their connection to their music and to each other put them in a category of one, where they very much remain"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4727155</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4727155</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spitz, Bob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4727155234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Biography</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593489093/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever Forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren and, with their remarkable victory in the 2024 constructors championship, they are now returning to form in a spectacular way under the leadership of Zak Brown. Going into 2023, Brown's team were the second slowest on the grid, only to end it as arguably the second fastest, after a dramatic mid-season turnaround. In 2024, their driver Lando Norris achieved his first ever Grand Prix win in Miami, and McLaren fiercely competed for podiums against Ferrari and Red Bull. Zak Brown took over a failing team from Ron Dennis in 2018, and his strategic vision is now seeing results. With access to the team's inner sanctum, this exhilarating account delves deep into McLaren's history, revealing how their rich heritage forms the core of their identity today, before taking us behind the scenes to give us the inside track on their resurgence.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4754345</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4754345</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hunt, Ben (Sportswriter)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4754345234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Inside Story of McLaren</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781646049226/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jacqueline Lamba]]></title><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4754305</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4754305</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grimberg, Salomón]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4754305234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Forgotten Surrealist</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781858947266/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout It Out!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The iconic Italian author Roberto Saviano's latest work of nonfiction is an urgent cry for people to stand up for themselves and the things they believe in, featuring those who have most inspired him--Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, Martin Luther King Jr., the Calipygian Venus, immortalized in marble--alongside those whose actions were most deplorable--Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Rwandan radio host Kantano Habimana, who encouraged the 1993-'94 genocide there. Saviano quotes the Italian author and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi: "I write what I wouldn't be able to tell anyone." Saviano, like Levi, embraces his readers within a similar protective halo of intimacy, taking us in his arms to warn us.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4729900</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4729900</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saviano, Roberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729900234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>26 Portraits for A Committed World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644215425/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Converts]]></title><description><![CDATA["The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome. In the first half of the century, Catholicism became an intellectual and spiritual fashion attracting more than half a million converts, including fascinating artists, writers, and thinkers. What drew these men and women to join the church, and what difference did conversion make to them? Melanie McDonagh examines the lives of these notable converts from the perspective of their faith. For the Decadent circle of Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde--who converted on his deathbed--artists such as Gwen John and David Jones, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, and novelists including G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark, Catholicism offered stability in increasingly febrile times. McDonagh explores their lives and influences, the reaction to their conversions, and the priests who initiated them into their faith"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4744648</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4744648</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McDonagh, Melanie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4744648234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300266078/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4761936</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4761936</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Callanan, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4761936234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Political Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691227979/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the Music Had to Go]]></title><description><![CDATA["From Dylan’s initial dismissal of the Beatles as being for “teenyboppers” to his realization that they were “pointing the direction where music had to go”—and from the Beatles’ obsessive spinning of early Dylan records to their impromptu renditions of fifteen Dylan songs during the 1969 Get Back sessions—the book captures the moments that pushed Dylan to “go electric” and inspired the Beatles to deepen their lyrics. Highly entertaining and packed with backstage anecdotes, Where the Music Had to Go is a deep-focus portrait of a heretofore unexamined relationship, one full of camaraderie, competition, and mutual evolution.  More than a music biography, this is a front-row seat to the forces that shaped an era—an unmissable experience for music lovers, pop-culture buffs, and anyone curious about the magic that happens when legends collide."--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4735183</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4735183</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Windolf, Jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4735183234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other -- and the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668075562/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesick for A World Unknown]]></title><description><![CDATA["A masterful and fully authorized biography of George Schaller, the greatest living field biologist, bringing to spectacular life the fifty years he spent immersed in the social worlds of wild animals around the globe In 1959, at just twenty-six years old, the biologist George Schaller shrugged off warnings of danger and recklessness and set off for the Congo to do what his contemporaries wouldn't dare: lead the first sustained field study of mountain gorillas by stepping foot into their world and living alongside them. Boldly refusing arms and retinue, Schaller, joined by his wife Kay, established a home in the jungle and assimilated to the gorillas' rhythms and rules. After two years of immersive field studies - a methodology he would hone for the next five decades of his life - Schaller drastically altered how the world viewed gorillas, not as brutes, but as compassionate and intelligent creatures, far more similar to humans than once believed. To Schaller, nature held a path not to cold mastery but to communion, and his quest to know these others would propel him across four continents and establish a technique which would go on to inspire generations of scientists. Schaller's desire to venture into the wilderness for days on end was the byproduct of not only a curious spirit, but a childhood steeped in displacement and isolation. Born in Berlin in 1933 to a German diplomat working for Hitler, the young Schaller survived aerial bombings and forced dislocation as the Allies closed in. Though his American mother brought him to St. Louis, Missouri in 1947, he was still the alien enemy. It was the woods that offered teenage George a place of respite, but it wasn't until he attended University of Alaska that he found a home in the zoology department, and a lifelong partner in Kay. Drawing on the biologist's unpublished journals, personal interviews, letters, slides, and fossils, environmental writer Miriam Horn gives full due to the extraordinary life of George Schaller, a towering founding father of wildlife conservation. Horn captures Schaller's adventures around the globe, as he conducts the first ever studies of Indian tigers, Serengeti lions, Brazilian jaguars and Chinese pandas, meticulously cataloging not just their behaviors, but also their interior lives. It was Schaller who spent months guiding Jane Goodall on her chimp study in Tanzania, and traversed Nepal with Peter Matthiessen in search of the elusive snow leopard. Again and again, he navigated acute danger, historic upheavals, and political unrest for the sakes of the animals he studied; he sought neither wealth nor fame, but empathy, for creatures big and small. For the first time, Horn illuminates Schaller's legendary work like never before, offering a verité window into how wholly he inhabited the role of a naturalist, one whose influence radiated far beyond science. Most fundamentally, he remade our understanding of animal consciousness, and urged communities and leaders to protect the delicate relationship between humans and animals. A lyrical examination of the man who challenged us to rethink our own place in the natural world, here is the definitive biography of George Schaller, biographer of animals"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4733976</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4733976</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Horn, Miriam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4733976234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Life of George B. Schaller</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984881342/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Body Weather]]></title><description><![CDATA["A lyrical exploration that reimagines the cloudy stages of grief and challenges us to reexamine universal questions lodged deep within: how do we find comfort and meaning in a fevered world?"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4729873</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4729873</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Boissoneault, Lorraine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729873234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807017555/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Max Blankstein Architect]]></title><description><![CDATA["Max Blankstein moved from Odessa Russia to Winnipeg in 1905. Max Blankstein was on the cutting edge of architecture in Winnipeg, exploring the Edwardian, arts and crafts, and art deco styles. The imagination and ornateness of his designs testify to Winnipeg's willingness to take risks, something that fuelled rapid growth in Blankstein's era. During the course of his twenty-five year practice in Canada, he would design at least two-hundred buildings. This figure is likely higher, as it is possible that Max was not listed as the architect on some projects in order to work around official procedures. He was a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and is said to be the first registered Jewish architect in western Canada. He would pass away December 31, 1931, seven days after the opening of his last project, the Uptown Theatre. The book is about the person, his buildings and his family legacy which included several more architects and designers. "-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4729322</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4729322</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peterson, Murray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4729322234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781988321059/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algonquin Diaries]]></title><description><![CDATA["From 1907 through to 1936, author, naturalist, and soldier Mark Robinson served as an Algonquin Park Ranger. His service included working twice as Chief Ranger, as well as twice as Acting Park Superintendent. Throughout these years, Robinson scrupulously maintained a daily diary, documenting early life in the Park. These diaries are an essential, evocative record of Canada's environmental, social, and military history. Whether tracking poachers, thieves, or wolves; befriending artists, politicians, or socialites; writing articles for magazines and newspapers, or coping with the challenges of military life during wartime (at home and overseas), Mark Robinson's observations offer a witty, fascinating history of special places during a time of unprecedented change"--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4746955</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C4746955</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robinson, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4746955234</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Vol. 1, Shadowy Lakes &amp; Dreaming Woods : Mark Robinson, Algonquin Park Ranger, 1908-1917</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798230651109/MC.GIF&amp;client=416-978-7639&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>