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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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky.Before ther...

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...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

Praise for Augusten Burroughs "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review on D...

In this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero. Hawk speaks of being a su...

The ... Author Of Hourglass Now Gives Us A New Memoir About Identity, Paternity, And Family Secrets--a Real-time Exploration Of The ... Discovery She Made L...

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs...

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...

Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. H...

An Intimate, Authorized Yet Frank Biography Of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), One Of The Most Accomplished, Visible And Controversial American Novelists And Cultur...

this Unforgettable Memoir, By One Of Our Most Gifted Writers, Introduces Us To The Young Toby Wolff, By Turns Tough And Vulnerable, Crafty And Bumbling, A...

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regai...

A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son’s quest to understand the mystery of his father’s death—a universal memoir about the secrets fam...

In This Tribute To Teachers Everywhere. Mccourt Records The Trials, Triumphs And Surprises He Faces In Public High Schools Around New York City. His Methods...

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicida...

The Beloved And Bestselling Author Takes An Intimate Look Back At A Life Of Reading And Writing. The Memory That We Live With Is The Moth-eaten Version Of O...

Jane Austen ; Afterword By Claudia L. Johnson ; Artwork By Leon Steinmetz. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences So...

The 5th And Last Volume Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Diaries And Letters Record The Lindbergh's Lives During The Years Of World War Ii. Continuation Of The Au...