Biographies & Memoirs

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INSTANT BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION\From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family...

A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first com...

Katherine And Jay Wolf Were A Young Couple Living The Dream In Southern California, But All Was Nearly Lost When Katherine Suffered A Shocking Near-fatal Br...

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the grou...

A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world’s fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), w...

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when...

In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hi...

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Hi...

Based on Mark Gungor's wildly popular seminar, Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage® builds on Gungor's success with tens of thousands of couples who credi...

The Morningside Years Cd: Introduction By Peter Gzowski (1:22) -- Stuart Mclean And The Cricket (9:05) -- Kierans, Camp, And Lewis: Will Meech Lake Be Ratif...

The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II"In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South...

DEPRAVED KIDNAPPERS, HORRIFIC ORDEALS, COURAGEOUS SURVIVORSTrue stories of twisted criminals who hold their victims in endless captivity to satisfy their p...

An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film. Salon - Steve Vineberg The heyday of silent movies began in 1915, when D.W. Griffith rele...

Albert Camus was an enigma to many to his own generation, even some who thought they knew him. He didn't quite fit into the French literary mold; men and w...

In 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet ...

Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman’s French sojourn in th...

“A cracking read, funny, witty and self-deprecating. Les spares no one, least of all himself” – Lorraine Kelly“There’s no shortage of juicy revela...

Product Description New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him be...

No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight month...

A blazingly passionate memoir of identity and love: when a charismatic and troubled young woman dies tragically, her identical twin must struggle to surviv...

The Shocking True Story Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Prolific Female Serial Killers.--book Jacket. Belle Gunness Engaged In Wholesale Slaughter, P...

Autobiography And Star-studded Anecdotes From Original Monkee Micky Dolenz. Too Much Monkee Business -- I Was Born Very Young -- Lions And Tigers And Bears,...

A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secr...

The chief had ordered that I stay in the hut where they bury rejected children alive, those with any kind of disability. The tribe believed the hut was ful...

In a small, simple chapel during the celebration of the Eucharist, Jesus revealed his presence to Nicole Gausseron and began speaking to her. In the first ...

The Christing Of The World -- Mystical Body -- Rules For Everyday -- Work Should Be An Act Of Creative Love -- Life In Which One's Own Life Will Grow And Fl...

When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find her...

The First Biography Of Manchester Born Singer David Gray, From His Early Years In Obscurity Though The Gradual Building Of Support In Ireland To The Huge Ma...

The team behind the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head—and shakes out the good stuff. Follow...

Contains 9,000 Alphabetical Entries Including Biographical Information On Authors, Composers And Artists, 2,000 Plot Summaries, Movements In Literature, Lit...

Assessing three thousand of the most important worldwide military figures from the earliest recorded moments in history to the present, a fact-filled compil...

This Inspiring Collection Pays Tribute to baseball legend and civil rights hero Jackie robinson. Jackie's daughter, Sharon robinson, acts as a personal tou...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a ...

Filled with stunning photographs, this fascinating tribute illustrates and illuminates Hepburn's life. From her early years as an ingenue to her status as a...

What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgo...

Caius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman - and indeed one of the most famous people - ever to have lived. In this biography, Adrian Goldsworthy tel...

"Without doubt JBS, as many know him, is one of the world's most eminent explorers"- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt. OBE\For over 60 years John Blashford-Snell has...

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...

One man’s improbable rise to power in one of the world’s most violent criminal organizations. Fallen Angel sheds light on how the enigmatic and dangerou...

Revealing how dreams influence everything including memory, health, and relationships, a guide to making positive changes by identifying dream messages also...

An ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds sports hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn’t have ...

A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective. In March of 1943, Scott Chantle...

Justin Trudeau’s term as prime minister has been a disaster, but you wouldn’t know it if your only source of news was the Media Party — the liberal-le...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background ...

Young And In Love, Their Lives Ahead Of Them, Tami Oldham And Her Fiancé Richard Sharp Set Sail From Tahiti Under Brilliant Blue Skies, With Tami's Hometo...

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the sta...

'Dear Mr & Mrs Jones, I am writing to inform you of my withdrawal from the race to keep up with you . . .'Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she ...