Memoirs

Olivia Chow—Member of Parliament, seasoned politician and widow of former New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton—tells her story in this candid memoir...

Weight-conscious food lovers no longer need to deprive themselves of the ever-popular cuisine of Italy. Award-winning celebrity chef and #1 New York Times ...

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives. ...

For Twenty-five Years, Debby Irving Sensed Inexplicable Racial Tensions In Her Personal And Professional Relationships. As A Colleague And Neighbor, She Wor...

The Author Describes Life Growing Up Different In An Odd Family, His Unusual Talents, His Struggle To Live A Normal Life, His Diagnosis At The Age Of Forty ...

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen y...

A criminal profiler, trained at Quantico, former Chief Superintendent of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Kate Lines recounts her remarkable story using...

for Centuries, People Across The World Have Had A Fascination With Monsters And Strange Creatures. They Marvel At The Tales And Legends Of The Bigfoot Of Th...

Is There A Song That Changed Your Life? Npr's Music Authority Bob Boilen Posed That Question To Some Of Today's Best-loved Musical Legends And Rising Stars....

Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity ...

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible...

My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime...

The Life, Times, And Work Of Herbert Marcuse, One Of The 20th Century's Most Remarkable Cultural Figures-- Assimilation & Catastrophe -- The Sorrows Of ...

The instant #1 national bestseller Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from...

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For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapoli...

A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world’s fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), w...

In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan-A...

Based on Mark Gungor's wildly popular seminar, Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage® builds on Gungor's success with tens of thousands of couples who credi...

Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman’s French sojourn in th...

Product Description New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him be...

Canada’s most celebrated and acclaimed actor lets loose in a magnificent memoir that will delight and enchant readers across the country.A rollicking, ric...

Elite sniper Jody Mitic loved being a soldier. His raw, candid, and engrossing memoir follows his personal journey into the Canadian military, through snipe...

What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgo...

The Book That Inspired The Movie My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulg...

A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective. In March of 1943, Scott Chantle...

Young And In Love, Their Lives Ahead Of Them, Tami Oldham And Her Fiancé Richard Sharp Set Sail From Tahiti Under Brilliant Blue Skies, With Tami's Hometo...

A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geog...

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censor...

Millionaire Within pulls back the curtain, giving you a front-row view of online entrepreneur E. Brian Rose's journey to becoming a self-made millionaire. R...

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political ...

Half A Life Is A Luminously Written Memoir That Will Stand Beside Such Autobiographical Classics As This Boy's Life, Stop Time, And The Liars' Club. A Scrup...

Do not let the title Kelly Tough fool you. This is not a “be all you can be, no pain–no gain” story. Toughness is overrated. And being Kelly Tough, we...

A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life ...

From composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks, Which will you choose: the path of least r...

A Spiritual Book Written For--and By--someone Who Would Otherwise Never Read A Spiritual Book, 10% Happier Is Both A Deadly Serious And Seriously Funny Look...

One Young Woman’s True Story Of Growing Up In A Repressive Cult Led By Her Charismatic Grandfather, Hopeful Christian. In An Idyllic Valley In New Zealand...

This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano. Nick Flynn met his father...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion PictureRunning with Scissors is the true story of a b...

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to ...

For readers of Kristine Barnett's The Spark, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surpris...

A Frank, Funny, No-holds-barred Memoir, Here's The Deal Reveals Mandel's Ongoing Struggle With Ocd And Adhd--and Tells How It Has Shaped His Life And Career...

Returning to print, this insiderÆs view of pre-Stonewall high class homosexual lifestyles retraces the authorÆs journey from his backwards Midwestern town...

*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 ...

Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a ...

When Dr. Reggie Anderson Is Present At The Bedside Of A Dying Patient, Something Miraculous Happens. Sometimes As He Sits Vigil And Holds The Patient’s Ha...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was list...

Memoir About Vladek Spiegelman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler's Europe, And About His Son, A Cartoonist Who Tries To Come To Terms With His Father, His Story,...