Memoirs

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...

The gripping first-person account of one woman's survival in Joshua Tree National Park against the odds."A vibrantly physical book"—The Guardian • "Upli...

Raised In A Secular Family But Interested In The Relevance Of Faith In Our Modern World, A.j. Jacobs Decides To Attempt To Obey The Bible As Literally As Po...

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll He was born in England but reared in L.A.,...

The Legendary Guitarist Recounts The Story Of His Life And His Career, Recalling His Work With The Yardbirds, Cream, And As A Solo Artist; Years Of Drug And...

“A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year.” – Janet Maslin, “Ten Favorite Books of the Year,” New York...

One of Rolling Stone Magazine's 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2012 As one of the greatest rock icons of a...

Get Out! Run! We Must Leave This Place! They Are Going To Destroy This Whole Place! Go, Children, Run First! Go Now! These Were The Final Shouts Nine Year-o...

After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster ...

A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family.On December ...

The #1 New York Times BestsellerUpdated with a new introduction and featuring never-before-seen photosJessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue...

Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of baseball cards in shoe boxes across America: 328 home runs, 1,071 RBIs, .282 career batting ...

Ask Bobby Orr who was the best ever, and he’ll tell you it was Gordie Howe. Ask Wayne Gretzky, and he’ll say the same thing. Big, skilled, mean, and n...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of comin...

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...

One Day in 1957, in the third-grade classroom of St. Brigid's parochial school, an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O'Reil...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERAs a child, Murray Howe wanted to be like his father. He was an adult before he realized that didn't necessarily mean playing ho...

In A Haze Of Vape Smoke On A Rare Windy Night In La In The Fall Of 2016, Chelsea Handler Daydreams About What Life Will Be Like With A Woman In The White Ho...

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a long-time collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at pla...

Eight Olympic medals, including six gold and two bronze in Athens in 2004, Michael Phelps is the current holder of six world records, and seven gold medals ...

Deveraux Used To Run Special Ops For The Cia, Before They Retired Him For Being Too Ruthless. Now The President Has Asked The Man They Call The Cobra To Do ...

Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen ...

Review\"[Koven] is rueful and delightful and keeps on building a careening and fascinating life... [Letter to a Young Female Physician] is a warm and wry ep...

Now In Paperback--the Intimate, Powerful, And Inspiring Memoir By The Former First Lady Of The United States, Featuring A New Introduction By Michelle Obama...

In this delectable cookbook and memoir, sisters and stars of the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes inspire readers with their recipe for success: equal parts dete...

Tells The Dramatic Life-and-death Tale Of The Vermont Native Who, In April Of 2009, Was Held Captive On A Tiny Lifeboat Off Somalia's Anarchic, Gun-plagued ...

Following Atticus is the remarkable true story of a man and a dog embarking on the challenge of a lifetime. This is author Tom Ryan’s inspiring tale of ho...

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci in 1995 because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glamerous ex ...

Five Years Ago Simpson Was Approached To Write A Motivational Guide To Living Your Best Life. She Walked Away From The Offer Because She Believed She Couldn...

WINNER of CBC Canada Reads Finalist for the RBC Taylor Prize In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bes...

Actor And Comedian Kevin Hart Grew Up In North Philadelphia. His Father Was A Drug Addict Who Was In And Out Of Jail. His Brother Was A Crack Dealer And Pet...

For Canadian corrections offi cer Vern Thibedeau, it all began at "Disney World"-or at least the penitentiary that ironically carried that nickname. Within ...

One Of Nine Children Born Into A Penniless North Dublin Family, Nuala O'faolain Was Saved From A Harrowing Childhood By Her Love Of Books And Reading. Thoug...

Product Description From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—a groundbre...

In his poignant memoir, Charles Foran presents a portrait of his gruff-but-fond father wrestling with the end of life as Charlie acts as witness, solace, an...

A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year...

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” ― STEPHEN FRYFrom England’s working...

the Bestselling Author Of the Know-it-all Takes On History's Most Influential Book. raised In A Secular Family But Increasingly Interested In The Relevan...

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tu...

“if I Could Learn To Play The Cello Well, As I Thought I Could, I Could Show By My Own Example That We All Have Greater Powers Than We Think; That Whateve...

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descende...

Viennese Psychiatrist Tells His Grim Experiences In A German Concentration Camp Which Led Him To Logotherapy, An Existential Method Of Psychiatry.Categories...

the Blue Sweater Is The Inspiring Story Of A Woman Who Left A Career In International Banking To Spend Her Life On A Quest To Understand Global Poverty An...

As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christi...

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...

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. ...

The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius ...