Biographies & Memoirs

Documents the murder investigation into the death of Jenn Corbin, whose apparent suicide in December 2004 was later discovered to be a murder committed by h...

In A Landmark Book, An Extraordinary Young Woman Recounts Her Coming-of-age As A Transgender Teen--a Deeply Personal And Empowering Portrait Of Self-revelat...

My memoir is laced with nostalgia and at the same time it is my sincere intention to portray the true essence of the Guyanese culture without offence. Keep ...

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound hum...

Walker Brown Was Born With A Genetic Mutation So Rare That Doctors Call It An Orphan Syndrome: Perhaps 300 People Around The World Also Live With It. Walker...

Magda Szubanski's Childhood In A Suburban Migrant Family Was Haunted By The Demons Of Her Father's Life In Wartime Poland. At Nineteen, Fighting In The Wars...

National Bestseller A Charmingly Relatable And Wise Memoir-in-essays By Acclaimed Writer And Bookseller Mary Laura Philpott, “the Modern Day Reincarnation...

Seaside Practice: Tales of a Scottish Country DoctorCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsMedical

What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side...

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta...

What happens to our loved ones when they die? Is there a heaven? Is there a true connection and communication between the living and the dead? With the s...

aimed At Undergraduate And Graduate Students, This Text Traces The Evolution Of Nursing Theory From Its Roots In The Ideas Of Florence Nightingale Through ...

The Riveting Tale Of Two Pioneering Botanists And Their Historic Boat Trip Down The Colorado River And Through The Grand Canyon. In The Summer Of 1938, Bota...

A Memoir Documenting Her Marriage Of More Than Forty Years To Successful Actor, Hugh Franklin. Madeleine L'engle.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts ...

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman a...

Sacred Hoops Revisited -- Foreword / Senator Bill Bradley -- Introduction -- 1. The Second Coming -- 2. A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Starts With One Breath...

For The First Time In The Ultimate Reunion, The Ladies Of The Real Housewives Dish On The Iconic Moments We’ll Never Forget And The Off-camera Drama We’...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky’s transformation from a cle...

In Party Of One, Investigative Journalist Michael Harris Closely Examines The Majority Government Of A Prime Minister Essentially Unchecked By The Oppositio...

One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this super...

Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs The de...

Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true Renaissance man, Lorenzo daz...

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV i...

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's Role In Launching Modern Conservationsim, Identifying The Contributions Of Such Influences As James Audubon And John Muir Whi...

A riveting, lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Helen of Troy. We think the way we do because ...

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed t...

In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pensi...

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brough...

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led t...

“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Priz...

In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Gran...

The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013 Less than a year after the first season finale, PBS’s hit series Call the ...

Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we’ve t...

an Outstanding And Authoritative Biography Of One Of Britain's Greatest Masters. publishers Weekly phenomenal Drinking Habits, Chronic Sleep Deprivation, A...

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans w...

Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Ma...

The Popular Comedian Traces Her Youth In Atlanta's Most Troubled Neighborhood At The Height Of The Crack Epidemic, Discussing Her Experiences With Petty Cri...

Man of Valor, Man of Grace: The Life of David (the Perfect Gift for Fans of House of David. Discover More about the Real King David of the Bible)Categories:...

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcyc...

A compelling psychological detective story to discover the dark heart of one woman’s past.Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife a...

In March of 1992, the highest–ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to break his oath of silence testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salva...

The Author Of The Gnostic Gospels Draws On Personal Experiences And The Perspectives Of Neurologists, Anthropologists, And Historians To Illuminate The Endu...

A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITYThe effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our t...

Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas ...

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hos...

Outlines Five Expressions Of Love--quality Time, Words Of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts Of Service, And Physical Touch--and Explains How To Identify And Communic...

That morning, a beautiful day on the tropical island of Papua New Guinea, Grace Fabian brimmed in excitement over the idea that she and her husband, Edmund,...

The devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, occurred on April 26, 1986. On April 29, Alexander ...