Biographies & Memoirs

Cab Drivers! What A Strange Lot! Why Would Anyone Want To Drive A Hack For A Living? Other Than Being Capable Enough To Safely Operate A Vehicle, You Don't ...

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum...

In his poignant memoir, Charles Foran presents a portrait of his gruff-but-fond father wrestling with the end of life as Charlie acts as witness, solace, an...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

This national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother—a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, m...

Half A Life Is A Luminously Written Memoir That Will Stand Beside Such Autobiographical Classics As This Boy's Life, Stop Time, And The Liars' Club. A Scrup...

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing...

Now in paperback, Engineers tells the story of the brilliant minds that have constructed our man-made world, from ancient pyramids to modern spaceflight D...

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyl...

liddell Hart Considered General Sherman The Dominant Military Genius Of The Civil War; To Prove His Point, He Traced Sherman's Military Campaigns, From The ...

Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Country Music is a Nashville tribute perfect for any country music lover from Stella Barnes, featuring illustration...

Presents A Behind-the-scenes Examination Of The Life And Career Of The Legendary Performer That Offers Insight Into His Prolific Accomplishments, Multidimen...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was list...

A Candid, Compulsively Readable, Hilarious, And Heartbreaking Memoir Of Resilience And Redemption At Age Four, Molly Shannon's World Was Shattered When She ...

A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by...

this Remarkable, Never-before-told Account Of The Ovitz Family, Seven Of Whose Ten Members Were Dwarfs, Bears Witness To The Best And Worst Of Humanity An...

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her true calling. From...

This skilful compilation - including interesting new materials omitted from the original publication - covers the first dozen years of the diary, beginning ...

Dizzy Gillespie has secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. But he was much...

Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany,...

Not For Turning Is The First Volume Of Charles Moore's Authorized Biography Of Margaret Thatcher, The Longest Serving Prime Minister Of The Twentieth Centur...

From the bestselling author and acclaimed historian, a powerful portrayal of the life of Jesus Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such...

Gathers Classic Short Stories By Such Authors As Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, And Anton Chek...

Weight-conscious food lovers no longer need to deprive themselves of the ever-popular cuisine of Italy. Award-winning celebrity chef and #1 New York Times ...

Gardner's Memoir Places His Work On Multiple Intelligences Within The Arc Of His Academic Career, And Presents A Defense Of The Scholarly And Public Value O...

In 1979 Sister Theresa Kane, then-president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, was invited to offer a greeting to Pope John Paul II during his...

Now in paperback: The founding father of Canadian bikers shares the story of his fascinating life. You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Ca...

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Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, fr...

In His First Book Written As Pope, Benedict Xvi Offers A Portrait Of Jesus Based On The Gospels And Encourages Christians To Better Understand The Central F...

The Book That Inspired The Movie My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulg...

Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America...

A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own…A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of t...

#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive, most comprehensive account of Queen Elizabeth II's legendary reign. Painfu...

To everyone else, John F. Kennedy Jr. may have been American royalty, but to RoseMarie Terenzio he was an entitled nuisance—and she wasn’t afraid to le...

Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the...

**the National Bestseller** From The Acclaimed, Bestselling Author Of Turn Right At Machu Picchu, A Fascinating, Wild, And Wonder-filled Journey Into Alaska...

This Book Follows Marilyn During The Year Before Her Death, And The Mass Hysteria That Followed In The Wake Of Her Assassination. No Death In The 20th Centu...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller The Global Icon, Award-winning Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Actress, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Storyteller, And Ar...

David Kipen Scoured The Archives Of Libraries, Historical Societies, And Private Estates To Assemble A Kaleidoscopic View Of Los Angeles From The Spanish Mi...

When his career in music seemingly fell apart, Shocka - then one-third of the grime collective Marvell - found himself in hospital for his deteriorating men...

A poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete. Over the course ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA hockey life like no other.A hockey book like no other.Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey history, and one of the ...

On March 5, 1973, 12-year-old Dave Pelzer was freed from the prison he had known his entire life. His clothing in tatters, his bed an old army cot, Pelzer ...

Authorized by the Graceland® Archives, this remarkable illustrated biography marks the 40th anniversary of Elvis’s death—and tells his story as never ...

An updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s. In this new editio...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

Elizabeth Hay, One Of Canada's Most Beloved Novelists Has Written A Poignant, Complex, And Hugely Resonant Memoir About The Shift She Experienced Between Be...