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Pamela Des Barres Was The Sweetheart Of Rock, The Reigning Queen Of L.a.'s Wild Music Scene. A Hopeful Romantic And The Ultimate Star-chaser, She Lived Life...

In Her Most Revealing And Powerful Book Yet, The Beloved Activist, Speaker, And Author Of The Bestselling Sensations Love Warrior And Carry On, Warrior Expl...

The Creator Of Grey's Anatomy And Scandal Details The One-year Experiment With Saying Yes That Transformed Her Life, Revealing How Accepting Unexpected Invi...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and...

The First Vice Lord is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district-the Levee. For the first ti...

An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery—from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyage...

As A Child, Victoria Spry Was Brutally Beaten, Neglected And Starved By The Woman She Called Mummy. To The Outside World Eunice Spry Was A Devoted Parent, B...

Finalist for the National Business Book Award National Bestseller In Bet On Me, leading entrepreneur Annette Verschuren lays out her surprising and inspiri...

The first authorized biography written specifically for young readers! First published in 2005 in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Marathon of H...

Book by Callwood, JuneCategories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyDeath

Read The Untold Secrets Of Kathryn Kuhlman's Healing Ministry And Walk With God ...from A Behind-the-scenes Eye-witness! Joan Gieson Received A Miraculous H...

Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life'...

Everything you love about American popular culture is Quincy Jones. As an artist and impresario Quincy Jones has been the creative catalyst for over 50 ye...

Andrew Morton. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureWomen

Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, And Penelope Cruz, There Was Lupe Velez-one Of The First Successful Latin-american Hollywood Stars, Who Swept Past The Xen...

Lovers of old-time radio hold a special place in their heart for Agnes Moorehead. She was one of the busiest and most definitive actresses of that medium. T...

It was a case that made international headlines in 2006: two small girls, Cedar, 3, and Hannah, 5, were abducted by their Lebanesea-Australian father, Joe, ...

Spoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe'...

The Paper Garden is unlike anything else you have ever read. At once a biography of an extraordinary 18th century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life...

Bestselling author Randall Robinson, one of our nation's most distinguished African-American leaders, returns with a book certain to be as important and co...

For More Than A Decade, Kathy Harrison Has Sheltered A Shifting Cast Of Troubled Youngsters -- The Offspring Of Prostitutes And Addicts; The Sons And Daught...

a Best Nonfiction Book Of 2012: the Boston Globe, entertainment Weeklya Best Book Of The Year: Npr, st. Louis Dispatch, Vogue at Twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed...

It never gets better, but it does get easier. That's the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who's fighting like hell, just hangi...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.On...

Includes The Diary Of A Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, By Anne Frank ; Edited By Otto H. Frank & Miriam Pressler ; Translated By Susan Massotty, Ne...

After Film Critic Gene Siskel Asked Her, What Do You Know For Sure? Oprah Winfrey Began Writing The What I Know For Sure Column In O, The Oprah Magazine. Sa...

As Justine Picardie shows in this elegant book, the figure who introduced simplicity into women’s wardrobes was far from simple ... the Chanel uncovered ...

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve ...

Features portraits of female ranchers and cowgirls who live in the American West, and anecdotes about their daily lives and thoughts about the disappearance...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

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...

Gilbert/eat Pray LoveCategories: Travel Asia IndonesiaGeneral

Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey Tells The Story Behind Highclere Castle, The Real-life Inspiration And Setting For Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winni...

For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara We...

“A gift of love to others who are seeking solace.” —Olivia Newton-John On the morning of May 11, 2015, Erin Davis, one of Canada’s most beloved rad...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

Obama Tells The Story Of His Improbable Odyssey From Young Man Searching For His Identity To Leader Of The Free World, Describing In Strikingly Personal Det...

This Splendid Book Examines The Legacy Of Gabrielle “coco” Chanel, One Of The Twentieth Century's Great Icons Of Style. While Chanel Mythologized Her Gl...

In A Life Filled With Meaning And Accomplishment, Michelle Obama Has Emerged As One Of The Most Iconic And Compelling Women Of Our Era. As First Lady Of The...

Not For Turning Is The First Volume Of Charles Moore's Authorized Biography Of Margaret Thatcher, The Longest Serving Prime Minister Of The Twentieth Centur...

Mrs. Obama Offers Readers A Series Of Fresh Stories And Insightful Reflections On Change, Challenge, And Power, Including Her Belief That When We Light Up F...