Biographies & Memoirs

A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, fou...

An award-winning science journalist traces the development of the marine chronometer by an obscure, uneducated clock maker--an invention that revolutionized...

This book brilliantlu explains the theories that led Jung to break away from Freud and describes his own near psychotic breakdown in mid-life, a night-sea v...

A Chef Buys An Apartment In Paris And Endures The Headaches And Excitement Of Renovating His Own Corner Of Paradise In The City Of Light-- Bestselling Autho...

A Biography Of The Leader Of The Independence Movement In India. William L. Shirer. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

A collection of Bennett’s diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the foo...

Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993. Two months after their marriage, a devastating car wreck ...

Lewis Mackenzie. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 287-288) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable People MilitaryGener...

Whether chugging up the Congo on a paddle-wheel steamboat, rubbing elbows with pygmy chiefs (or wealthy colonial neighbors), being pursued through the dark...

From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War\“Brillia...

In the tradition of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Douglas Preston weaves a captivati...

"Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." ―Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvatio...

A New York Times BestsellerJennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and ev...

Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career in this New Y...

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three ge...

An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly ...

Recounts the life and accomplishments of Pat Tillman, who left professional football to join the Army in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks and was...

INSTANT #1 TORONTO STAR and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERSophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance...

New York Times bestselling author and king of “immersion journalism” A.J. Jacobs tackles his most challenging experiment yet: a yearlong mission to rad...

From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn...

The Host Of Msnbc's Morning Joe Reveals How President Harry Truman Defended Democracy Against The Soviet Threat At The Dawn Of The Cold War. Harry Truman Ha...

Acc Player Of The Year And Star Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back James Conner Recounts His Devastating Struggle With Cancer, Revealing The Lessons He Drew F...

Makes Recommendations For Meeting Four Major Challenges Currently Facing The United States, Including Globalization, The Information Technology Revolution, ...

The powerful memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, and one of the most respected military leaders...

Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so p...

In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, bestselling author and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep ...

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Seco...

The best-selling novelist turns her attention to the real-life, century-old series of crimes that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on meticulous rese...

The Iconic Country Music Hall Of Fame Artist And 10-time Grammy Winner Shares The Story Of His Personal Life And Career, From His Early Ambitions And Indeli...

MC YOGI’s remarkable story of transformation through yoga and music. Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an inter...

The Former Commander Of The U.s.s. Benfold Describes The Management Principles That He Used To Command One Of The U.s. Navy's Most Modern Warships And Expla...

Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and w...

The life story of internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil is a heartwarming account of hard times and remarkable achievements that will app...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An A-to-Z guide to living and aging well by #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer Jane Fonda In this unique,...

Thirty-sixth President Of The United States Describes The Challenges, The Trials And Achievements Of His Eventful Years In The White House. The Beginning --...

Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclus...

No. 1 New York Times Bestseller--cover.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in t...

This updated paperback edition of Gloria Steinem's classic bestseller -- called "the ultimate self-help book" by the Los Angeles Times -- features a new Pre...

Bad news . . . . . . for anyone who thought Carrie Fisher had finally stopped talking about herself: Sorry, but after all of her seemingly endless blather...

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days.When beloved singer and songwriter Jann A...

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s.As an inquisitive seven-...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hug...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares...

In This Intimate, Haunting Literary Memoir And New York Times Notable Book Of The Year, An American Icon Tells Her Own Story For The First Time -- About A C...

“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...

An exciting new collection of recipes from the Bridge kitchen that are not only delicious but incredibly convenient. Sally Vaughan-Johnston and Best of ...

Poignant and humorous insights on fully embracing our lives as we age from Susan Moon, beloved Buddhist teacher and author. Aging isn't easy. But it can sti...