Biographies & Memoirs

The host of Food Network's Dinner: Impossible shows busy people how to keep food simple but delicious Chef Robert Irvine goes where few chefs dare...

The Reporter Who Caused A Scandal At The New York Times When It Was Discovered That He Had Been Faking His Stories Recounts His Youth As An African American...

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by...

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...

Abraham Lincoln Towers Above The Others Who Have Held The Office Of President--the Pillar Of Strength Whose Words Bound Up The Nation's Wounds. His Presiden...

The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padge...

This Account Will Finally Explain For The First Time, In The Uncensored Words Of Simpson's Closest Confidants And Attorneys, Such Mysteries As The Missing L...

"His death certificate bears the number one. On September 11, Father Mychal Judge rushed to volunteer at the emergency command post in the World Trade Cente...

This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family’s pursuit of the American dream.NAME...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

Draws On The Conversations And Experiences Of Students In The Author's Writing Class To Offer Practical Insights And Advice On The Craft Of Writing, Stressi...

What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining countercu...

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We’...

Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven yea...

Mikey Walsh didn’t know what life was like beyond his Gypsy community. But after fleeing home at age fifteen, he had no choice but to find out. After ce...

A Concise, Brilliant, And Trenchant Examination Of Democratic Nominee Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s Lifelong Quest For The Presidency By New Yorker Political Repo...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the National Book Award—one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our timeâ€...

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS sho...

A Group Of Female Friends Navigates The Ever-modernizing Phenomena Of Midlife Dating And Relationships Between The Village And Manhattan's Upper East Side.C...

Traces The Rewards And Pitfalls Of A Chinese Mother's Exercise In Extreme Parenting, Describing The Exacting Standards Applied To Grades, Music Lessons, And...

TV writer Hilary Winston offers up a witty collection of autobiographical tales about her misadventures in dating. Just when Hilary feels like her life i...

New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true stor...

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE An instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger's syndr...

Traces The Story Of A Once-promising Football Athlete And Imprisoned Drug Dealer Who Was Offered His Freedom In Exchange For Coaxing A Confession Out Of A S...

John and Jenny had just begun their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought h...

Cory Friedman Woke Up One Morning When He Was Five Years Old With The Uncontrollable Urge To Twitch His Neck. From That Day Forward His Life Became A Hell O...

A rant-ish memoir by the veteran stand-up comedian and former cohost of That Metal Show, with a foreword by Jim NortonTwitter Trolls. Facebook Freaks. Inst...

Carole Gene Marer Spent Her Girlhood Dreaming Of Meeting Rock Hudson, But When She Finally Had The Chance--on Her Second Date With Her Future Husband, Telev...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

Beekman Place, One Of The Most Exclusive Addresses In Manhattan, Hasn't Always Been Home To The Rich. In The 1930s, When Bluebloods Like The Vanderbilts And...

A Memoir About The Year 2016 In Which Dreams And Reality Are Interwoven -- Provided By Publisher. Following A Run Of New Year's Concerts At San Francisco's ...

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mann...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Fascinating ... A powerful, exhortatory call to arms."--New York Times Book Review"A David-and-Goliath story for the digital age...

Product Description If you can judge a book by its enemies, Too Famous could be an instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler ...

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year. In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic ...

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with am...

"Being Martha is a personal—at times a searingly personal—account of Martha's life from the inside, by a friend. It's fascinating—very anecdotal and ...

Joseph Epstein’s Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer’s magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his mode...

Everyone knows the name Rudolf Nureyev, but does anyone know the man behind the myth? Diane Solway does; she spent over four years and conducted more than 2...

Preface: It Was The Players' Game Then -- Francis Unitas And Helen Superfisky -- Losing In Louisville -- Goodbye Pittsburgh, Hello Bloomfield -- Baltimore -...

The New York Times bestseller: sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"—funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twen...

"J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. S...

An American painting dynasty is portrayed in this biography of N.C. Wyeth. His name summons up our earliest images of the beloved books we read as children...

Tura Satana : Miss Japan Beautiful And The King -- Cherry Vanilla : The Happiest Broken Heart -- Gail Zappa : Love At First Sight -- My Lady D'arbanville --...

An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tri...

“makes A Reader Feel Like A Time Traveler Plopped Down Among Men Who Were By Turns Vicious And Visionary.”—the Christian Science Monitor the Modern Ame...

A secret buried for centuriesThrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind th...

Into The Writer's Isolation Comes A Dog, To Sit Beside The Chair Or To Lie On The Couch While The Writer Works, To Force Them Outside For A Walk, And Sudden...