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Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

New York Times Bestseller Tina Turner—the Long-reigning Queen Of Rock & Roll And Living Legend—sets The Record Straight About Her Illustrious Career...

Product Description A timely and entertaining exploration of why ambitious women are often perceived as rude and how the power of rudeness can be harne...

A beautifully illustrated 30th anniversary celebration of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion Tour, which broke barriers for people with disabilities and inspired ...

Betty Greene coaxed her Grumman seaplane to two thousand feet..... Suddenly, silence--total silence. The plane engine had stopped! Her passengers gasped, bu...

A Gallery Book. Gallery Books Has A Great Book For Every Reader.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

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...

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestion...

Hillary Rodham Clinton And Her Daughter, Chelsea, Share The Stories Of The Gutsy Women Who Have Inspired Them -- Women With The Courage To Stand Up To The S...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZEWINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION\Former Chief Justice of the ...

For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Re...

At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong's world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, includin...

Markham is often described as "the first person" to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markha...

We need reminders of God's power now more than ever. We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of...

The Autobiography Of A Young Black Man Raised In Harlem. A Realistic Description Of Life In The Ghetto. Claude Brown ; With A New Introduction By Nathan Mcc...

The inside look at one of the most captivating and consequential figures in our culture--with never-before-heard interviews. Kobe Bryant's death in Januar...

Biography of Marie Antoinette. The Washington Post - Suzanne D'Amato Weber's book is an ode to the art of dressmaking at its most fantastic, a heady, gorg...

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

The Spellbinding Story Of Chris Mccandless, Who Gave Away His Savings, Hitchhiked To Alaska, Walked Into The Wilderness Alone, And Starved To Death In 1992,...

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...

New York Times bestseller. They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, ...

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...

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...

Jarvis Jay Masters Has Taken An Extraordinary Journey Of Faith. Strangely Enough, His Moment Of Enlightenment Came Behind The Bars Of San Quentin's Death Ro...

In the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, Unorthodox is a captivating story about a young woman determined to live her...

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reali...

Watch an interview with DJ on CNN Listen to Ralph Savarese's interview on NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show" Visit the book's website: www.reasonable-people.com...

In The Pink Pagoda, Dr. James Garrow tells two stories: his personal involvement in helping rescue more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death, and the t...

Imagine Being Trapped Inside A Disney Movie And Having To Learn About Life Mostly From Animated Characters Dancing Across A Screen Of Color. A Fantasy? A Ni...

When Tony Dungy Led The Indianapolis Colts To Victory In Super Bowl Xli-- The First African American Coach To Win The Big Game--millions Wondered, Amazed By...

Hey you guys, it's Leslie. I'm excited to share my story with you. Now, I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-fi...

My Own Words Is A Selection Of Writings And Speeches By Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Wide-ranging Topics, Including Gender Equality, The Wor...

Ultimately A Celebration Of Triumph Over Adversity, The Author's Story Tells How A Bright Little Girl Evolved Out Of Dutiful Obedience To Become An Outspoke...

A successful writer of children's books in spite of severely impaired vision, Jean Little recounts her battle with worsening eyesight that pushes her to the...

About the Author\Mary Pipher is a psychologist who has earned her the title of “cultural therapist” for her generation. She is the author of four New Yo...

One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritua...

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...

"Throughout history, blame for the introduction of slavery to America has been squarely placed upon the male slave traders who ravaged African villages, the...

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...

“Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” --Jon Stewart "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World...

A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot he...

greeks Arrived In America With The Expectation That Freedom Would Permit Their Families To Thrive And Be Successful. With Hard Work, Belief In The Orthodox ...

Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the ag...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

In An Illustrated Memoir, The Creator Of The Bloggess Web Log Shares Humorous Stories From Her Life, Including Her Awkward Upbringing In Texas And Her Relat...

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...

As a youngster, Johnny Bowers father told him if he worked hard every day and put passion into his profession, it would pay off in the long run. It was good...