In Stores, August 2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
by Rebecca Donner
(Little, Brown)
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s 1938–1940
by Susan Ronald
(St. Martin’s Press)
The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer
by Christopher Clarey
(Twelve)
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Fiona Sampson
(W. W. Norton)
The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty Years of Tragedy, Scandal, and Triumph
by Ben Schreckinger
(Twelve)
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
by Mike Duncan
(PublicAffairs)
Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP
by Mirin Fader
(Hachette Books)
The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
by Jan Brokken, translated by David McKay
(Scribe US)
The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
by Peter L. Bergen
(Simon & Schuster)
Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, A Dual Portrait
by Nick Davis
(Knopf)
Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby
by Henrietta McBurney
(Paul Mellon Centre)
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
(Hachette Books)
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction
by Julie Klam
(Riverhead Books)
Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
by Kathy Iandoli
(Atria Books)
China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now
by David Shambaugh
(Polity)
Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs
by David Philipps
(Crown)
Philip: The Final Portrait
by Gyles Brandreth
(Mobius)
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
by Mari Eder
(Sourcebooks)
Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
by Terryl L. Givens
(University of North Carolina Press)
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
by Paul Halpern
(Basic Books)
Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic
by Celia E. Schultz
(Oxford University Press)
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man
by Allen J. Ottens
(Indiana University Press)
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
by Laura Arnold Leibman
(Oxford University Press)
Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince
by Touré
(Permuted Press)
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
by Andrew Porwancher
(Princeton University Press)
Harry: The Unauthorized Biography
by Danny White
(Michael O’Mara)
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins
(Doubleday)
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
by Frances Wilson
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Howard Kazanjian: A Producer’s Life
by J. W. Rinzler
(Cameron Books)
Bringing the Monster to Its Knees: Ben Hogan, Oakland Hills, and the 1951 U.S. Open
by Ed Gruver
(Lyons Press)
Manon’s World: A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
by James Reidel
(Seagull Books)
Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot
by Christopher Gehrz
(Eerdmans)
Nagme, Kisse, Baatein, Yaadein: The Life & Lyrics of Anand Bakshi
by Rakesh Anand Bakshi
(Ebury Press)
Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952–1970
by Elizabeth Gregory
(University of Delaware Press)
B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena
by John Sillito
(Signature Books)
Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent
by Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos
(University of Virginia Press)
Building Beloved Communities: The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith
by Hildi Hendrickson
(University of Georgia Press)
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
by Andrew D. Kaufman
(Riverhead Books)
Crusader: John Cobb’s Ill-fated Quest for Speed on Water
by Steve Holter
(Evro Publishing)
Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman
by Melanie Kirkpatrick
(Encounter Books)
Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China
by Grace C. Huang
(Harvard University Asia Center)
General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
by Frank P. Varney
(Savas Beatie)
Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
by Nicholas Wapshott
(W. W. Norton)
Anthony Cerami: A Life in Translational Medicine
by Conrad Keating
(Rutgers University Press Medicine)
The Mistresses of George I and II: A Maypole and a Peevish Beast
by Catherine Curzon
(Pen and Sword History)
George II
by Norman Davies
(Allen Lane)
Admirals Under Fire: The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
by Edward J. Marolda
(Texas Tech University Press)
In the Company of Heroes: The Inspiring Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients from America’s Longest Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
by James Kitfield
(Center Street)
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin
by Ashley Jean Yeager
(The MIT Press)
Máel Coluim III, “Canmore”: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King
by Neil McGuigan
(John Donald)
George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age
by Matthew Bernstein
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865–1904
by Yehudah Mirsky
(Academic Studies Press)
William Robertson Smith
by Aleksandar Bošković
(Berghahn Books)
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O’Donoghue
by Stuart Rintoul
(Allen & Unwin)
Borderlands Biography: Z. Anthony Kruszewski in Wartime Europe and Postwar America
by Beata Halicka
(Brill U Schoningh)
Trial of Ronald Light: The Green Bicycle Case
by Sally Smith
(Mango Books)
William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea: At the Deathbed of Empire, 1896–1904
by Wayne Patterson
(Lexington Books)
In the Service of God and Humanity: Conscience, Reason, and the Mind of Martin R. Delany
by Tunde Adeleke
(University of South Carolina Press)
The Real Diana Dors
by Anna Cale
(White Owl)
Peppercorn, His Life and Locomotives
by Tim Hillier-Graves
(Pen and Sword Transport)
Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea: An Intellectual Biography
by David Brancaleone
(Bloomsbury Academic)
A Humanist on the Frontier: The Life Story of a Sixteenth-Century Central European Pastor
by Marcell Sebők
(Routledge)
Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception
by Kenneth L. Caneva
(The MIT Press)