Biographies & Memoirs

Is It Possible To Reach Back In Time And Solve An Unsolved Murder, More Than 170 Years After It Was Committed? Just After Midnight On April 21, 1842, John M...

Before Liz Lemon, Before Weekend Update, Before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey Was Just A Young Girl With A Dream: A Recurring Stress Dream That She Was Being Chased...

'She's not going anywhere. Her heart is struggling. She's not stable enough to move' Lizzie couldn't believe it. She had just gone to the hospital for a qui...

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

A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories — which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, t...

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

An Account Of The Chicago World's Fair Of 1893 Relates The Stories Of Two Men Who Shaped The History Of The Event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, Who Coordina...

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned t...

"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...

Have You Ever Wondered Why God Uses Ordinary People To Accomplish His Work And To Spread The Good News? Join Bestselling Author And Bible Teacher John Macar...

now Revered As One Of North America's Top Birders, Kenn Kaufman Hit The Road At Age Sixteen And Spent A Year Crisscrossing The Country To See As Many Bird...

Hattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of h...

Chronicles The Life And Political Career Of Yasser Arafat, Including His Founding Of The Palestinian National Liberation Movement And His Time As Leader Of ...

National BestsellerDrawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Phili...

A quarter of a century ago, the Catholic Church surprised the world by electing its first Polish pope, 58-year-old Karol Wojtyla, known as John Paul II. The...

My Secret SisterCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources

Michael Walsh examines Lloyd Webber's personal motivations and professional methods and recounts his enduring influence on the development of the popular m...

Review\"Few public officials in Canadian history wrought more fundamental change than Michael Wilson – all while dealing with overwhelming family pressure...

sifting Carefully Through Reports From Newspapers, Magazines, Personal Memoirs, And Letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 Brings Readers More Of The Best First...

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...

Lost River: The Waters of Remembrance, A MemoirCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsEnvironmentalists & Naturalists

The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius ...

why Do Some Allegations Of Scholarly Misconduct And Error Become Large Media Spectacles And Result In Sanction Against The Offending Writer, While Others R...

"At the heart of the story is Vince McMahon, the mercurial owner of the World Wrestling Federation. The authors trace his beginnings as the forgotten son of...

New York Times Bestseller Tina Turner—the Long-reigning Queen Of Rock & Roll And Living Legend—sets The Record Straight About Her Illustrious Career...

About the Author Shelley Puhak is a critically acclaimed poet and writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, Teen Vogue, Virgi...

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben ...

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...

Gurus Of Modern Yoga Explores The Contributions That Individual Gurus Have Made To The Formation Of The Practices And Discourses Of Yoga In Today's World. T...

With Stephen Godfrey And Penelope Reed Doob. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureDancers

Gold Medal Winner, Independent Publisher Book Award in Category Aging, Death and Dying"Magnificent, profoundly moving . . . gives encouragement and solace t...

Nothing ever came easy for Levi Shepherd. By age seventeen, he had suffered a life-threatening illness, an absent father, the loss of his mother, and stagge...

Christened Reginald Dwight, He Was A Shy Boy With Buddy Holly Glasses Who Grew Up In The London Suburb Of Pinner And Dreamed Of Becoming A Pop Star. By The ...

Mike Pompeo Recounts His Political Career-- Mike Pompeo Is The Only Person Ever To Have Served As Both America's Most Senior Diplomat And The Head Of Its Pr...

*canada Reads 2019 Longlist *national Bestseller *new York Times Bestseller *finalist For The 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize For Nonfiction *finali...

New York Times bestsellerHow do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for?When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally f...

“Great sports writing. . . . [Vinton] is taking us inside a world few ever visit.”―James Hill, Washington Post Harnessing nature’s most powerful fo...

In Her Most Revealing And Powerful Book Yet, The Beloved Activist, Speaker, And Author Of The Bestselling Sensations Love Warrior And Carry On, Warrior Expl...

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Wai...

Product Description A timely and entertaining exploration of why ambitious women are often perceived as rude and how the power of rudeness can be harne...

A beautifully illustrated 30th anniversary celebration of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion Tour, which broke barriers for people with disabilities and inspired ...

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam H...

For The Past Twenty-five Years, Alexandra Morton Has Been At The Forefront Of Whale And Dolphin Research, Dedicating Her Life To The Study Of Orcas (also Kn...

“I'll always be Peter Pan in my heart,” Michael Jackson once said. And like the character he loved so much, Jackson seemed eternally childlike and charisma...

In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jenny Lawson Explores Her Lifelong Battle With Mental Illness. A Hysterical, Ridiculous Book About ...

After Film Critic Gene Siskel Asked Her, What Do You Know For Sure? Oprah Winfrey Began Writing The What I Know For Sure Column In O, The Oprah Magazine. Sa...

The author of The Shell Seekers, September, and Coming Home recounts her life growing up in Cornwall with its cottages and gardens, and her eventual settlem...

This is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the brilliant minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Wats...