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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at la...

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughterSue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with...

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket...

in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christophe...

In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O'Faolain, then a writer for The Irish Times, to publish a collection of her opinion columns. She offered to ...

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate A...

In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and ho...

Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Be...

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry ...

"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift--just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." --Malachy McCourt, New York Times b...

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound hum...

A Memoir Documenting Her Marriage Of More Than Forty Years To Successful Actor, Hugh Franklin. Madeleine L'engle.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts ...

Like new First Edition, First Printing (stated and full number line), Dutton 1984; a small manufacturer's crease to the front flap - GIFT QUALITY. The lette...

The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yem...

Dante Traces The Life And Complex Development - Emotional, Artistic, Philosophical - Of This Supreme Poet-historian, From His Wanderings Through Tuscan Hill...

Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that s...

After two decades spent living in England, popular humorist Bill Bryson returned to the United States, his English wife and four children in tow. Much has ...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

With A Poet's Gifted Ear, A Novelist's Sense Of Narrative, And A Journalist's Unsentimental Eye, Mitchell S. Jackson Candidly Explores His Tumultuous Youth ...

In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the rema...

The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years...

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs - her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to b...

A trenchant memoir of a troubled American childhood from the child's point of view describes growing up in an East Texas refinery town, life in the midst of...

Tracing The Genesis Of A Masterpiece, A Fitzgerald Scholar Follows The Novelist As He Begins Work On The Great Gatsby. The Autumn Of 1922 Found F. Scott Fit...

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and n...

Simon Winchester. Maps On End Pages. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 251-253) And Index.Categories: ReferenceLanguage Study & Reference

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning ...

A collection of Bennett’s diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the foo...

when It Was Published In 1995, Mary Karr's the Liars' Club Took The World By Storm And Raised The Art Of The Memoir To An Entirely New Level, As Well As B...

"In Off to the Side, Jim Harrison writes about his upbringing in Michigan, the austerities of life amid the Depression and the Second World War, and the see...

The moving story of her own search for God by the highly-acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianit...

with Classic Simplicity And A Painter's Feeling For Atmosphere And Detail, Isak Dinesen Tells Of The Years She Spent From 1914 To 1931 Managing A Coffee P...

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's ...

Dillard Describes The Working Life Of A Writer. She Probes And Exposes, Examines And Analyzes, As She Recounts What The Actual Process Of Writing Feels Like...

'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alic...

Overview: He Has Been Called The Most Trusted Man In America. His 60-year-long Journalistic Career Has Spanned The Great Depression, Several Wars, And The E...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning pr...

Elegant And Wise Meditations On Youth And Age, Love And Marriage, Solitude, Peace And Contentment. Introduction To The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition / Reeve ...

The New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces-the heartrending story of a friendship between a newl...

Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIS...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

On August 9, 2001, 22 days after Archer—now known as Prisoner FF8282—was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from a maxim...

as Moving As His Bestselling Works Of Fiction, Nicholas Sparks's Unique Memoir, Written With His Brother, Chronicles The Life-affirming Journey Of Two Bro...

El libro comienza con su viaje a Estados Unidos en 1949. Apenas tiene diecinueve años y su única compañía es un sacerdote al que acaba de conocer en el ...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent. Growing up in a home with an atheistic mo...