Biographies & Memoirs

The many challenges life throws at us do not shape us. How we respond to these challenges does. In "The Beautiful Disappointment" urban youth worker and aut...

Today It Hit Me When He Hit Me, Blood Shaking In My Brain. Maybe There Wasn't A Savior Coming. Maybe It Was Up To Me To Save Me. Recruited Into The Fundamen...

All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live With AnxietyCategories: Self-HelpAnxieties & Phobias

An in-depth biography of Prince Charles discusses his preparation for the role of king, the upbringing of his sons, the constitutional implications of his s...

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death--using want ads to ...

Paris Hilton has a lifestyle most girls dream about. Her name is on everyone's lips — but can she help it if she was born rich and privileged? Now, with a...

The #1 New York Times bestseller by the 6-time Super Bowl championThe first book by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady—the 6-time Super Bowl cham...

The Inspiring And Sometimes Hilarious Story Of A Family That Quit The Rat Race And Left The City To Live Out Their Ideals On An Organic Farm, And Ended Up B...

An investigative reporter offers an incisive portrait of Andrea Yates and her drowning of her five young children, incorporating the information from more t...

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC ...

When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began a six-month” operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to hap...

Until His Inspiring Life Was Tragically Cut Short, John F. Kennedy Commanded The World's Attention Today, His Legacy Is Still Very Much Alive. This Rich Vis...

Golf superstar Tiger Woods, one of the best-loved role models in shorts today, has attracted countless new young fans to the game with his record-breaking s...

**Buy the paperback version of this book and get the Kindle eBook version for FREE!**Rockefeller was the quintessential industrialist. He created an industr...

**Buy the Paperback version of this book and get the Kindle eBook version for FREE!**The Ford name is everywhere, even in places where you don’t see it. I...

Impeccably researched, and written with Charlotte Gray’s unerring eye for personal and historical detail, Reluctant Genius tells the story of a man very ...

In a candid, no-holds-barred memoir, Tanya Tucker details her life as a country music superstar, from her reputation as a party girl to her romances with Gl...

From Jack the Ripper to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP), the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers provides an exhaustive overview of what ...

A biography of country music's only black superstar describes his impoverished childhood in Sledge, Mississippi, his three Grammys, and his struggle as virt...

Award-winning broadcast journalist and NBC anchor-woman Maria Shriver reveals the lessons she has learned that have guided her journey as a career woman, wi...

Stone breaks new ground by providing a fresh survey of Reinhold Niebuhr as professor, demonstrating that this vocation was central to Niebuhr's lifework. T...

The life story of Diana, Princess of Wales, at last is told in full. Here is the first complete, honest, and objective biography that shows all facets of t...

MTV reality star Amber Portwood’s autobiography describes her shocking downward spiral and recovery after prision.When Amber Portwood debuted on MTV’s ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London duri...

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mi...

The latest from the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends -- the untold story of one of WWII's most important secret military u...

After The Death Of The Author's Senile Father, And Cantankerous Ninety-three-year-old Mother, She And Her Three Younger Brothers Must Empty And Sell The Bel...

Book by Steve PaikinCategories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalCanadian

"Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers."--New York Times A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconci...

Michael Pond had helped hundreds of people recover from alcoholism, but he couldn’t help himself After two decades of helping clients battle addictions, M...

2005 HarperCollins trade paperback, Hazel Rowley (Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage). The passionate and somewhat bizarre relationship between...

didion's Journalistic Skills Are Displayed As Never Before In This Story Of A Year In Her Life That Began With Her Daughter In A Medically Induced Coma And...

I: La Belle France -- Le Cordon Bleu -- Three Hearty Eaters -- Bouillabaisse À La Marseillaise -- Ii: French Recipes For American Cooks -- Mastering The A...

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery. On Thursday nights, they met in Lewis's Magdalen College rooms to...

Product Description A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues m...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader—tells a story she has never told before, a candid accoun...

Paul Hattaway is the international director of Asia Harvest, an organization committed to serving the church throughout Asia. He is an expert on the Chinese...

A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at th...

Recounts The Story Of Canada's Largest Manhunt When Hundreds Of Men Spent 7 Weeks Tracking Albert Johnson Across The Frozen North. By Hélèna Katz. History...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at la...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Entertaining . . .an insightful and funny observer of pro wrestling's universe." - Publishers WeeklyIn this insightful, rivet...

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughterSue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with...

A number-one Washington Post bestseller, this memoir is the unforgettable story of a life and its times. As a student in Atlanta, Vernon Jordan had a summer...

Prelude: February 1834. 1. New Beginnings -- 2. The Scribbling Fever -- 3. Sweet Dreams -- 4. Flapping Sails -- 5. Land Of Stumps -- 6. Yankee Savages -- 7....

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket...

A New York Times bestseller Finding love and freedom in a pen, a paintbrush...and Paris How much money does it take to quit your job? Exhausted and on the ...

"I think this book is kind of malleable. I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever — the second I first 'finished' it, I wanted...

Little Amy never knew her father. One dark night, when she was only a baby, the Soviet secret police forcefully arrested Amy's father...and condemned him t...