Biographies & Memoirs

It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase ...

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What If Everything You Ever Wanted Isn't What You Actually Want? Twenty-something, Suit-clad, And Upwardly Mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn Thought He Had Eve...

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.Hatshepsut—the daughter of a...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Of Viper Pilot Chronicles Another Thrilling Chapter In American Aviation History: The Race To Break The Sound Barrier....

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getti...

Immortalizes Damon Runyon in a biography of the Roaring Twenties journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping, sport...

The Beloved And Bestselling Author Takes An Intimate Look Back At A Life Of Reading And Writing. The Memory That We Live With Is The Moth-eaten Version Of O...

This basic, one-volume study of Johann Sebastian Bach combines a sensitive biographical sketch with a detailed analysis of each of his major types of compos...

“Gripping...an outstanding portrait of a technocrat, at work and at home.”— The Wall Street Journal “Evocative...relentless”—The New York Times...

An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous mi...

Franklin recalls childhood memories that are both happy and tainted. There are the warm memories of hunting and exploring with his father in the mountains a...

Abraham Lincoln's remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wi...

The Heartrending Story Of A Midcentury American Family With Twelve Children, Six Of Them Diagnosed With Schizophrenia, That Became Science's Great Hope In T...

An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in sho...

At three, Ben still hadn't started talking. Karen Foli took her son to a speech and hearing clinic. The clinicians found Ben's speech was delayed by one to...

In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and torture can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely...

Jack-the-lad, wheeler-dealer, and international playboy (just ask the manageress of El Sid's, Torremolinos, 1978), this was a man destined for greatness. On...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former Trump supporter w...

Paul McGrath is Ireland’s best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional career stretching over 14 ...

This highly acclaimed and captivating book offers the world the most thorough understanding to date of “the Warning,” or “the Illumination of Conscien...

Psychopaths Are Manipulative, Remorseless. They Feel No Guilt. What Would Happen If You Thought You Might Be Married To One? Jen Waite Loves Her Husband. Ma...

Born into the luxury of Russian nobility, condemned to death during the Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine de Hueck Doherty remains an enigma ten years after h...

Tells how the author graduated from high school without learning to read, completed college, and became a high school English teacher and a successful busin...

Essays, Meditations, Parables, And Verse Explore Merton's Spirituality And Present His Thoughts On War, Peace, Love, The Psalms, And Christian Life. The Unr...

Driven By His Passion To Help The People Of North Korea, Bae Moves To Neighboring China To Lead Guided Tours Into The Secretive Nation. Six Years Later, Aft...

Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michael’s Lewis’s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon ...

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From Civil Rights To Ferguson, Franchise Reveals The Untold History Of How Fast Food Became One Of The Greatest Generators Of Black Wealth In America. Often...

Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails ar...

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Navajo Code and rare photos. Although more than 400 Navaj...

"The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history - the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1...

during His Twenty-five-year Career With The Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas Became A Legendary Figure In Law Enforcement, Pursuing S...

The irreverent diaries of the author's celebrated years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair also serves as a vibrant portrait of the 1980s in New York and Hol...

Sex, drugs and . . . bug stew? An utterly compelling tale of survival―of nature, family and genetics In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the countercu...

When Stand-up Comic Lange Joined The Cast Of The Howard Stern Show In 2001, He Provided A Wit Quick Enough To Keep Pace With Stern's Own. Wild, Shocking, An...

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express al...

The First Hispanic American On The U.s. Supreme Court Shares The Story Of Her Life Before Becoming A Judge, Describing Her Youth In A Bronx Housing Project,...

From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks—the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—was irresistibly drawn t...

From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome RobbinsTo...

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”--George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incred...

The New York Times Bestselling Book About The Early Development, Growth, And Exercise Of Leadership From Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Doris Kearns Goodwin ...

A major new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theaterFinalist for the Los Angeles ...

Ce Sont Des Signes étranges, Tracés à La Peinture Noire Sur Des Portes D'appartements, Dans Des Immeubles Situés D'un Bout à L'autre De Paris. Une Sort...

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and revi...

Paula Fredriksen, renowned historian and author of From Christ to Jesus, begins this inquiry into the historic Jesus with a fact that may be the only undisp...

A year and a half into our marriage, I found out my husband had been having an affair with a nineteen-year-old for six months. I filed for divorce and left...

During His Seven-month Stay In A Trappist Monastery, Henri Nouwen Had A Unique Opportunity To Explore Crucial Issues Of The Spiritual Life And Discover A Qu...