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> Posts tagged biography

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The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Jessica Stalker

James J. Strang was the founder and ruling figure of The Church of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), a small splinter group of Mormons that formed in the power vacuum left by the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844. Strang persuaded Read More …

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The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby

August 12, 2019August 9, 2019 Steven

The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby is an unconventional picture book biography of the acclaimed children’s author.  In 42 pages (one for each year of her life) Barnett details the important things of Read More …

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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

April 22, 2019May 16, 2019 Jessica Stalker

Author Dani Shapiro has spent her career writing about her fraught relationship with her Orthodox Jewish parents. Imagine her surprise at the age of 54 when she found out–through a home DNA testing kit–that the man she thought was her Read More …

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JELL-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom

January 7, 2019May 16, 2019 Jessica Stalker

Author Allie Rowbottom, a fourth generation heiress to the Jell-O fortune, contends that her family is under a curse related to the time-honored gelatin dessert. This curse manifests itself in various ways, from squabbles over money to alcoholism, mental illness, Read More …

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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner

August 13, 2018August 10, 2019 Jessica Stalker

Author Alex Wagner, the only child of an Irish-Luxembourger father and a Burmese mother, has always felt rootless and alone, so she traces her genealogy, visits her ancestral lands, and engages in the “greedy sport” of genetic testing in an Read More …

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