Biographies & Memoirs

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families ...

John Kerry Tells The Story Of His Extraordinary Life Of Public Service, From Decorated Vietnam Veteran To Five-term United States Senator, 2004 Democratic P...

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time...

The Journalist Who Broke The Jihadi John Story Draws On Her Personal Experience To Bridge The Gap Between The Muslim World And The West And Explain The Rise...

A Portrait Of Saint Paul Identifies His Crucial Role In The Formation Of Christianity While Considering How Beliefs About His Character Have Transformed Him...

Chronicles the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mech...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the he...

Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astu...

Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadi...

An Assemblage Of First-person Accounts Detailing The Everyday Lives And Experiences Of Firefighters Across The Country Focuses On Those Who Have Been Decora...

Edited By Warren F. Kuehl. Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable PeoplePolitical

Remarkable lessons in leadership and teambuilding from one of the greatest college football coaches of our timeIn only thirteen years as a head football co...

Draws On Recently Declassified Documents To Chronicle One Of The Most Disastrous Presidencies In U.s. History, Presenting A Portrait Of A Brilliant Man Over...

"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA T...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chr...

Shapiro Presents In-depth Conversations With Twenty Leading Women Of Broadway. He Selected Tony Award-winning Stars Who Have Spent The Majority Of Their Car...

Explores The Artistic And Spiritual Births, Deaths, And Rebirths, The Guises And Incarnations, That Are Bob Dylan. Lifelessness, The Enemy -- Don't Raise Yo...

Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her hu...

A contributing source for the Warner Bros.’ film Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser! "Metic...

The First Federal Agent To Infiltrate The Inner Circle Of The Hells Angels, Dobyns Finally Tells The Inside Story Of The 21-month Operation That Almost Cost...

From Street Assaults And Home Predators To Computer Hackers, Protect Yourself And Your Loved Ones From America's Growing Crime Wave With This Essential Guid...

Seb Hunter wasn't just a heavy metal fan. He was a blind devotee who threw away his education and future prospects to become a rock star. In Hell Bent for ...

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television ...

The Highly Anticipated Memoir From Hip-hop Icon Ross Chronicles His Coming Of Age Amid Miami's Crack Epidemic, His Star-studded Controversies, And His Unsto...

Wherever Chelsea Handler Travels, One Thing Is Certain: She Always Ends Up In The Land Of The Ridiculous. Now, In This Uproarious Collection, She Sneaks Her...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller"From “Family Guy” to his own Instagram account, Janetti has been behind some of his generation’s greatest comed...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give backâ€...

This is the first reference work to offer the wealth of material on women and crime to a general audience. More than 200 authoritative contributors from t...

Pulitzer Prize Winnerover Five Months On The New York Times Bestseller List tremendously Compelling, Somehow Dramatic And Intimate At The Same Time-the Ne...

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In the instant number one New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey gave millions of women around the globe insight into wh...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

The World War II intelligence exploits of William Stephenson-the mysterious man known simply as "Intrepid" who is said to be the real-life model for Ian Fle...

In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, ...

A Remarkable Adventure, A Heart-rending Love Story And A Gripping Race Are All Front And Centre In This Account Of How One Woman's Devotion To Her Late Husb...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and l...

Organized crime in America today is not the tough hoodlums familiar to moviegoers and TV watchers. It is more sophisticated, with many college graduates, gi...

Sigmund Freud is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His works included here are The E...

In 1975, Four Teenagers Gathered In A Kitchen In Dublin To Discuss Forming A Band. The Drum Kit Just About Fit Into The Room, The Lead Guitarist Had A Homem...

Set in a world where crime and government coexist, American Made is the jaw-dropping true story of CIA pilot Barry Seal that the Hollywood movie starring T...

The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Ki...

During The 1990s, Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton Was The Darling Of American Track And Field. An Outstanding Runner, A Major Sports Apparel Spokesp...

The First Biography Of Laura Bush To Be Written With White House Cooperation Offers A Look At The Private World Of This Famously Reserved Woman, As Well As ...

NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon es...

selected As One Of Usa Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books Of The Century, This Astonishing Autobiography Tells The Gripping, Heroic Story Of The Early Life ...

Laurence Leamer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [879]-898) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureWomen

The must-read autobiography of one of the NHL's most controversial and successful coaches, winner of the 1994 Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers.In the f...