A Book About a Historical Figure Not From the U.S.

Updated January 12, 2026
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The Romanov sisters : the lost lives of the daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Rappaport, Helen.
Paper Book
A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." --People magazine "The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and...
Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
Ackroyd, Peter
Paper Book
A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Alfred Hitchock, the master of suspense. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he...
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat...
My friend Anne Frank : the inspiring and heartbreaking true story of best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds
Pick-Goslar, Hannah
Paper Book
"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank.​ In...
John Paul Jones : sailor, hero, father of the American Navy
Thomas, Evan
Paper Book
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." He never...
Tesla : inventor of the electrical age
Carlson, W. Bernard.
Ebook
"The gold standard for Tesla biography."--Science "Superb."--Nature The definitive account of Tesla's life and work Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth...

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