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In A Landmark Book, An Extraordinary Young Woman Recounts Her Coming-of-age As A Transgender Teen--a Deeply Personal And Empowering Portrait Of Self-revelat...

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...

Magda Szubanski's Childhood In A Suburban Migrant Family Was Haunted By The Demons Of Her Father's Life In Wartime Poland. At Nineteen, Fighting In The Wars...

What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side...

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta...

The Riveting Tale Of Two Pioneering Botanists And Their Historic Boat Trip Down The Colorado River And Through The Grand Canyon. In The Summer Of 1938, Bota...

In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pensi...

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brough...

“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Priz...

The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013 Less than a year after the first season finale, PBS’s hit series Call the ...

Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Ma...

The Popular Comedian Traces Her Youth In Atlanta's Most Troubled Neighborhood At The Height Of The Crack Epidemic, Discussing Her Experiences With Petty Cri...

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcyc...

In March of 1992, the highest–ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to break his oath of silence testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salva...

The Author Of The Gnostic Gospels Draws On Personal Experiences And The Perspectives Of Neurologists, Anthropologists, And Historians To Illuminate The Endu...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed un...

I spent my 11th wedding anniversary planning my husband's funeral. If I could just figure out how to make that rhyme, it would be the beginning of a great ...

a Riveting Memoir Of A Girl's Painful Coming-of-age In A Wealthy Chinese Family During The 1940s. a Chinese Proverb Says, Falling Leaves Return To Their Ro...

at The Same Time That North Americans Were Focusing On The Brave Actions Of Several Christian Teens In The Columbine High School Shooting In Colorado, Canad...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) and APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book AwardMary Pratt’s art has captivated millions of Canadians. Her lumin...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the aut...

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenome...

One of Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient o...

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she's learned on her path to success and offers unique yet...

From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his guntoting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk H...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet...

A Warm, Hilarious Collection Of Stories And Reflections On Motherhood From The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Photographer, Businesswoman, And Star O...

In a society that worships youth and relegates its seniors to second-class citizen status, many elderly women end up ignored, mourning their lost youth. It...

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...

“We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It’s the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s going to save lives.”â€...

A Personal, Intimate, Photographic Celebration Of President Barack Obama In The Years Prior To His Presidency, From Friend And Former Aide David Katz From 2...

Perhaps the most influential monarch ever to rule England, Queen Elizabeth I is at once the best- and least-known of queens. She was a very private person,...

The Author Describes Her Life With Autism And How She Has Used Her Strong Visual Sensibility To Cope With It. Thinking In Pictures : Autism And Visual Thoug...

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...

A Simon & Schuster Book. Simon & Schuster Has A Great Book For Every Reader.Categories: History WorldWomen in History

Abigail Adams was the daughter of a country parson, a lively, brilliant girl of eighteen when she met the fiery young lawyer, John Adams. Immediately attra...

eleanor And Franklin Is One Of The Most Highly Acclaimed Biographies Written In Recent Times. Its Author, Joseph Lash, Won The Pulitzer And National Book A...

Brian Johnson's memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately replacing Bon Scott, the lead singer of one of the world big...

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer...

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...

"A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my persona...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her i...

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he ...

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...

A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before ma...

A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, actor, entertainer, gone all too soon.Candy Palmater loved to...

Describes The Life Of The Kennedy Family Matriarch Using Information Culled From Her Newly-made-public Diaries And Letters From Defying Her Father's Wishes ...

More Relationship Advice In This Much Anticipated Follow-up To The #1 New York Times Bestseller And International Sensation, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A M...