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INSPIRING TRUE STORY of a young prodigy and her chess coach, both from one of Uganda’s most impoverished slums.
Grade: SOLID B
THE QUEEN OF KATWE: A STORY OF LIFE, CHESS, AND ONE EXTRAORDINARY GIRL'S DREAM OF BECOMING A GRANDMASTER
Scribner
2012
Tags: Africa, Biography, Chess, Children, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Uganda, Women's Issues
WITH INSIGHTS FROM new research and recently opened archives, a fresh biography of Rasputin reveals much.
Grade: SOLID B
RASPUTIN: THE UNTOLD STORY
Wiley
2012
Tags: Biography, History, Non-Fiction, Rasputin, Russia, Social History, Solid B Reviews
CHATTY BIOGRAPHY OF the late, great rock icon Freddie Mercury has an insider feel, if no profound depths.
Grade: SOLID B
MERCURY: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY
Touchstone
2012
Tags: Biography, Freddie Mercury, LGBTQ Interest, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
IMPRESSIVE NEW BIOGRAPHY of the Brontës reveals much about father and brother as well as the famous sisters.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BRONTES: WILD GENIUS ON THE MOORS: THE STORY OF A LITERARY FAMILY
Pegasus Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, Literary History, Non-Fiction
GORGEOUS LITTLE ART book is a collage of impressions–in photos and text–of the owner of a lost address book.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ADDRESS BOOK
Siglio
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, Fiction, France, Non-Fiction, Photography
GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE 2008 disaster on K2, the most dangerous Himalayan peak, focuses on two Sherpa climbers.
Grade: SOLID B
BURIED IN THE SKY: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE SHERPA CLIMBERS ON K2'S MOST DANGEROUS DAY
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: Biography, Mountaineering, Nepal, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY of a man’s escape from the brutal North Korean prison camp where he was born.
Grade: A MINUS
ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14: ONE MAN'S REMARKABLE ODYSSEY FROM NORTH KOREA TO FREEDOM IN THE WEST
Penguin
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Biography, Non-Fiction, North Korea, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary
FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VII examines the roots of the Tudor dynasty. Well researched and engrossing!
Grade: B PLUS
WINTER KING: HENRY VII AND THE DAWN OF TUDOR ENGLAND
Simon & Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction
ENGROSSING, THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED look at Queen Victoria’s very public mourning for husband Prince Albert.
Grade: SOLID B
A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: VICTORIA, ALBERT, AND THE DEATH THAT CHANGED THE BRITISH MONARCHY
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights.
Grade: SOLID B
THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews