Biographies & Memoirs

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America’s last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they cam...

Doris McCarthy is one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters, a dynamic woman whose career spans fifty years of Canadian art history. As a student in ...

The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil...

The firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presid...

I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with Go...

Tim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty-years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met along the ...

A Reflection On Everyday Existence In The ‘sphere Of Consumption Of Late Capitalism’, This Work Is Adorno’s Literary And Philosophical Masterpiece. Th...

Directing His Polemics Against The Pedantry Of His Time, Galileo, As His Own Popularizer, Addressed His Writings To Contemporary Laymen. His Support Of Cope...

The Female Members Of The Duck Dynasty Cast Outline Their Behind-the-scenes Roles In The Robertson Family While Discussing The Core Values That Make Their R...

Felix Opatowski. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes the lyrics to The song of the partisans : Zog nit keyn mol/Never say presented in b...

A New York Times Best-selling Author And Usa Today Washington Bureau Chief Offers A New Biography Of Nancy Pelosi, One Of The Most Powerful Women In America...

From the author of Blue Like Jazz comes a road-trip memoir about three months spent crossing the country in a Volkswagen camping van, wondering out-loud if...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

The twisted copycat who looked to the stars... He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting t...

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry ...

In Vivid Detail, The Thirty-year Veteran Of Stage And Screen Describes His Texas Upbringing, His Personal Struggles, His Rise To Fame With North And South, ...

Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape a...

New York Times Bestselling Author Shauna Niequist Writes About Unexpected Loss, Change, Faith, Midlife, And A Move To New York City With Her Signature Depth...

In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic ...

Many stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Howe...

"Val embodies what it means to live the American dream." — Robin Roberts, Good Morning America Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the world championship-winning and ...

vintage Presents The Paperback Edition Of The Wild And Brilliant Writings Of Lester Bangs—the Most Outrageous And Popular Rock Critic Of The 1970s—edited ...

Back by popular demand! The exciting, colorful and tragic biography of Canadian F1 racer Gilles Villeneuve. "Never has a champion been profiled in such a ma...

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman—and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it...

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do—until she embarked on ...

Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the ...

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommended by BTS. PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I...

The Country Music Legend Shares The Story Behind His Meteoric Rise To Fame, Including The Highs And Lows, And The Secrets Behind His Biggest Hits. Rogers De...

Unlock the Power of Authentic LoveGod designed us to thrive in relationships, so it should come as no surprise that the greatest success in life comes thr...

As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from t...

“Just when you think there can be nothing fresh to be said about the long life of Winston Churchill, along comes biographer Michael Shelden’s page-turne...

"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift--just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." --Malachy McCourt, New York Times b...

For The First Time Anywhere, The First-person Account Of The Planning And Execution Of The Bin Laden Raid From A Navy Seal Who Confronted The Terrorist Mast...

A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to fame wi...

Luc Sante's Low Life Is A Portrait Of America's Greatest City, The Riotous And Anarchic Breeding Ground Of Modernity. This Is Not The Familiar Saga Of Mansi...

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a belove...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini's fascism helped define the path...

“Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author ...

In this searingly honest story, social historian Laurence Leamer provides an in-depth, but highly sensitive, look at the mothers, wives, sisters, and daught...

The legendary Mother Teresa's work for—and among—the poor has become the yardstick by which the entire world measures compassion, generosity, and selfle...

Like Native Children Forced By Law To Attend Schools Across Canada And The United States, Sellars And Other Students Of St. Joseph's Mission Were Allowed Ho...

A Geographer With Extensive Research Experience In The Canadian North, Jack D. Ives Has Written A Lively And Informative Account Of Several Expeditions To B...

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Ci...

The First Scientist is the first full-length biography in 50 years of the medieval monk who brought science out of the Dark Ages. Legend transformed the thi...

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting...

At The Age Of Sixteen, Edith Eger, A Trained Ballet Dancer And Gymnast, Was Sent To Auschwitz. Hours After Her Parents Were Killed, The 'angel Of Death, ' N...

One accident. Two victims. Three deaths. A moving account of grief and its aftermath. In the fall of 2009, Catherine Gourdier and the other members of her...