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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...

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

when Bethany Hamilton Lost Her Arm In The Fall Of 2003 To A Shark Attack, It Looked As If The Career Of One Of The Country's Top Amateur Surfers Was Over. ...

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs...

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t remember something that Big Russ taught me." Over the last two d...

When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. The Boston Boy Fiend was...

When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in t...

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

in The Go-go Nineties Jordan Belfort Proved To Wall Street That You Didn’t Need To Be On Wall Street To Make A Fortune In The Stock Market. But His Compan...

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forev...

Ted Conover, the intrepid author of Coyotes, about the world of illegal Mexican immigrants, spent a year as a prison guard at Sing Sing. Publishers Weekly ...

Jimmy Breslin.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging,...

In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections o...

A Personal And Empowering Blueprint—from One Of America’s Rising Democratic Stars—for Outsiders Who Seek To Become The Ones In Charge Leadership Is Ha...

The #1 New York Times bestseller based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life—this “c...

James Banks Shares His Perspective As A Dad Watching His Child Self-destruct Through Substance Abuse, And Geoff Banks Writes As The Prodigal Who Found His W...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Carrie Young.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Drawing on interviews with almost everyone who ever associated with Holly, including his widow, a biography creates a vivid picture of a young man who took ...