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In this love letter to his father, former professional golfer Nathaniel Crosby shares memories of Bing Crosby on the golf course, and the lessons he taught...

Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her deve...

"Walk - Don't Run" is a childhood memoir about the author's life as a 10-year-old boy in 1960. It is a historically accurate snapshot of being raised in Jol...

The son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of hi...

Product Description A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center ...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions...

The Marvelously Compelling Biography Of Robert Ripley, The Enigmatic Cartoonist Turned Globetrotting Millionaire Who Won International Fame By Celebrating T...

A Transplant Surgeon Discusses The Pioneers, Science, And Ethical Challenges Of Organ Transplantation As Well As The Ways That Organ Transplants Have Revolu...

Jeff Ashton was part of the prosecution team in the Florida homicide trial of Casey Anthony, the single mother accused of murdering her little girl, Caylee....

At Three Years Old John Stuart Mill Was Studying Arithmetic And Greek; By The Time He Was Six He Was Enjoying Hume And Gibbon And Writing Roman Histories. D...

gala Opera Evenings. Sudden Wealth And Fame. Dangerous Undercover Missions Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany. Standing Up To The Perils Of The Blitz. No One ...

The author of the poetry collection, Bandit Letters, recounts her upbringing in a three-hundred-year-old New England colonial home, a childhood marked by th...

A young scientist, Judyth Vary Baker, suddenly finds herself immersed in a life of espionage in New Orleans, involving two plots: the attempted assassinatio...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming ...

“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the mean...

The devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, occurred on April 26, 1986. On April 29, Alexander ...

With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest his...

Atatürk As A Young Man, 1880-1912 -- Atatürk As A Soldier, 1912-1918 -- Atatürk As A Revolutionary, 1918-1922 -- Atatürk As A Statesman, 1923-1927 -- At...

In This Definitive Biography Adam Sisman Reveals The Man Behind The Bestselling Persona. In John Le Carré, Sisman Shines A Spotlight On David Cornwell, An...

"Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclai...

The Heartbreaking True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned For Having A Miscarriage-an Injustice That Galvanized A Feminist Movement And Became A Global Rallying Cr...

Based on Nixon s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we ve come to believe about Watergate...

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS is a glorious celebration of the Great American Game, and of the city that loves it so. It is a love affair that began in 1874, whe...

An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congressw...

Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the ...

Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Chu...

This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-...

Book by Steve PaikinCategories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalCanadian

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

From Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes a...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

This biography takes the perspective that Churchill always believed he was destined for greatness, and thus, throughout his life, positioned himself in his...

Notorious for her persecution of Protestants, Queen Mary I has been vilified by generations of historians as Bloody Mary. But this award-winning biography...

Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents' attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon, the quintessentia...

On the back of his natural talent for oratory, Cicero set out on the path to a glorious reputation - his earliest speeches brought the name of Cicero out of...

Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president....

Portrays The Ambitious, Brave, And Arrogant English Family That Gave The World Winston Churchill, Describing Generations Of Ancestors Who Were Reckless Woma...

At the age of 87, Mike Wallace is a legendary figure in broadcast journalism. Now, after 60 years of reporting on important events around the world, he shar...

Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, t...

A Holocaust Memoir About Surviving The Notorious Dachau Concentration Camp. For Everyone Because These Stories Need To Be Remembered.Categories: History Wor...

Traces The Story Of Former Slaves Thornton And Lucie Blackburn, Who Launched A Daring Escape From Their Slave Masters In 1831 And Became The Subjects Of A L...

Jay Leno's Tonight Show comes alive in this book by insider Dave Berg, who spent 18 years as Jay's co-producer. There were always two shows: the one on sta...

A Portrait Of The Israeli Political And Military Leader Evaluates His Decisive Roles In Major Historical Events Throughout The Past Four Decades While Analy...

"At the heart of "American Widow" is the notion of Sept. 11 as a personal, rather than a national or political, tragedy, which, this achingly tender work re...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the w...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...