Biographies & Memoirs

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel...

MY LIFE - PART B President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectu...

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than a...

The Hollywood Legend Shares The Wisdom, Stories, Insight, And Skills That Life-- And Over Six Decades As An Actor-- Has Taught Him. Coming From Humble Origi...

Product Description NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam DriverThe sensational true story of murder, madn...

The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspi...

Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and risin...

A Portrait Of Albert Einstein Shares Critical Insights Into Both The Genius And Hubris Of Modern Physics, Linking Einstein's Popular Downfall Through The Fi...

just As Henry David Thoreau “traveled A Great Deal In Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Sees Much Of The World From The Window Of Hi...

A World-class Oncologist Delivers A Devastating And Deeply Personal Examination Of Cancer, Offering A Searing Account Of How Both Medicine And Society (mis)...

From Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and rollWhile describing the impulse driving his life and work, Rik...

AUTHORS: Shirin Ariff, Pat Labez, CoCo Roper, LaCountess R. Ingram, Rowena Rodriguez, Shirley Gaudon, Niki Papaioannou, Tania Kolar, and Catherine ClarkCanc...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau’s harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicl...

Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's ...

“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it...

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

Recounts the brutal murder of four-year-old Dennis Jurgens in 1965 by his adoptive parents, and Dennis's birth mother's discovery of the truth more than twe...

Eric Davidson Was A Beautiful, Fair-haired Toddler When The Halifax Explosion Struck, Killing Almost 2,000 People And Seriously Injuring Thousands Of Others...

Born A Creole In Martinique, Sent To France In Her Teens To Marry A Distant Relative In Order To Salvage The Family Fortunes, Josephine Was Adventurous, Amb...

the book is Winston Churchill recounting his youth in England before the turn of the 20th century.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notabl...

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his twenty...

A Life in Hiding When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger...

Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geogr...

In December 1942, A Team At The University Of Chicago Achieved A Milestone In Human History: A Nuclear Chain Reaction. At The Forefront Of This Breakthrough...

With The Publication Of The International Bestseller The Selfish Gene Some Thirty Years Ago, Richard Dawkins Powerfully Captured A Newly Emerging Way Of Und...

Spencer West is many things. Accomplished speaker. University graduate. Natural prankster. Former cheerleader. And a young man without legs—something that...

Trailblazing filmmaker and powerhouse CEO Will Packer presents powerful and illuminating stories from the front lines of Hollywood to offer a clear vision o...

From his earliest days buying Canada’s first FM radio station, CHFI, to developing Rogers Cable, Media and Wireless, Relentless tells the true story of t...

The ultimate front-row seat to the rise, fall, and rebirth of a band that was--for a time--the biggest in the world, Hootie & the Blowish, and Jim Sonef...

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Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 “Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But ...

The Definitive Story Of One Of The Greatest Dynasties In Baseball History, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.when Joe Torre Took Over As Manager Of The Yankees I...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids fro...

Relates The True Story Of How Two Vicious Rape-murders In Small English Midlands Villages Were Solved Using The Revolutionary Technique Of Genetic Fingerpri...

From The Pulitzer-prize Winning Reporters Who Broke The News Of Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment And Abuse Comes The Thrilling Untold Story Of Their Inv...

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

The biggest untold story of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election... Finally, the no-holds-barred, 100% true story of Barack Obama's use and sale of cocaine; ...

this Time Together Is 100 Percent Carol Burnett -- Funny, Irreverent, And Irresistible. carol Burnett Is One Of The Most Beloved And Revered Actresses And...

A magnificent new life . . . [and] a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the bes...

This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the en...

Throughout her ground-breaking career in business and politics, Hurricane Hazel McCallion has seen it all. In 1978, she defeated a popular incumbent to win ...

John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with ...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

This book presents an overview of the prominent quantitative and qualitative data that exists on gangs. Academically sound, it synthesizes gang research ...

In The High-octane Atmosphere Of The Formula One Pit Lane, The Spotlight Is Most Often On The Superstar Drivers. And Yet, Without The Technical Knowledge, C...