Biographies & Memoirs

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's ...

“we Can Do Extraordinary Things When We Lead With Love,” Barbara Becker Reminds Us In Her Debut Memoir Heartwood. When Her Earliest Childhood Friend Is ...

the Band, Who Backed Bob Dylan When He Went Electric In 1965 And Then Turned Out A Half-dozen Albums Of Beautifully Crafted, Image-rich Songs, Is Now Regar...

Review\"[Olivia Laing is] a kind of cultural sage… an accidental literary grande dame of the emotional havoc wrought by late capitalism and digital discon...

BeaverbrookCategories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing Guides WritingJournalism & Nonfiction

Vicky Beeching, called “arguably the most influential Christian of her generation” in The Guardian, began writing songs for the church in her teens. By...

Isaiah Berlin ; Edited By Henry Hardy. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceLette...

Updated and available for the first time in English, Mafia Inc. reveals how the Rizzuto clan built their Canadian empire through force and corruption, allia...

The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea’s political pr...

Walk To New YorkCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Regional U.S.Mid Atlantic

Product Description Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household n...

The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of expl...

In Canadian Maverick, Bestselling Author William Kaplan Critically Examines The Life And Times Of Lawyer, Politician, Academic, And Supreme Court Justice Iv...

“A thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-ends-me...

In an evocative portrait of Tudor England, the author of The Warrior Queens presents a provocative study of the diverse and complex characters of the six wi...

Product Description “A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling a...

in This Intimate, Loving Look At Corrie Ten Boom During Her Last Years You Will Hear The True Story Of Her Struggle To Communicate Her Love For Her God Duri...

Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbring...

In 1964, Kathy Mckeon Was Just Nineteen Years Old And Newly Arrived From Ireland When She Was Hired As The Personal Assistant To Former First Lady Jackie Ke...

Mark Logue And Peter Conradi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Europe Great BritainEngland

The Author Details His Immersion In A World Of Hardcore Drugs, Revealing The Mental And Physical Depths Of Addiction, And The Violent Relapse One Summer In ...

soon To Be A Major Motion Picture; Directed By Sean Penn, Starring Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, William Hurt, And Marcia Gay Harden. In April 1992 A Y...

One of Canada's finest crime reporters tells the whole story of the Bernardo-Homolka case.The sensational trials of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka for abdu...

Volume One See 338.0922 New For Vol 2. V. 2. The Acquisitors. Peter C. Newman. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: History AmericasC...

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 ...

'serial Killers: Philosophy For Everyone' Investigates Our Profound Intrigue With Mass-murderers. Exploring Existential, Ethical And Political Questions Thr...

Accomplished Young Journalist Ian Frisch, Whose Writing Has Appeared In The New Yorker, Vice, Playboy And The New York Times, Threads Together A Personal St...

For years, Churchill warned the British government against the growing Nazi threat. For years he was ignored. Politically isolated in Parliament, sometimes...

Dillard Describes The Working Life Of A Writer. She Probes And Exposes, Examines And Analyzes, As She Recounts What The Actual Process Of Writing Feels Like...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communitie...

Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklor...

You might think you know what happened in the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor, but no one knows that better than the lead officer on the scene, Sergeant...

For the first time, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor speaks directly to his fans and shares his worldview about life as a sinner. And Taylor kn...

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders—the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he...

'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alic...

Ruth Kassinger was at an emotional crossroads. Confronted with the death of a beloved sister, her children’s departure for college, and her own recent...

Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michael’s Lewis’s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon ...

As Toronto’s chief of police from 2000 to 2005, Julian Fantino faced a seemingly endless array of challenges: issues of ethnic sensitivity, rising cr...

“a Beautifully Written Glimpse Into Heaven That Will Encourage Those Who Doubtand Thrill Those Who Believe.” —ron Hall, Coauthor Ofsame Kind Of Diffe...

On The Eve Of Wwii, The Foreign-controlled Port Of Shanghai Was The Rendezvous For The Twentieth Century's Most Outlandish Adventurers, All Under The Watchf...

A Memoir By A Former British National Heath Service Employee And Single Parent Describes Her Battles With Early Onset Alzheimer's, The Management Techniques...

A Biography Of The Japanese Emperor Reveals A Powerful Man Who Successfully Cultivated An Image Of A Reluctant King While Manipulating Important Events Behi...

Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non—FictionCategories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeGeneral

Thirteen Years In The Writing, Erotic Vagrancy Doesn't Only Surpass Every Other Biography Of Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton Yet To Appear, This Rich, V...

The Harvard-educated Comedian, Talk-show Host, And U.s. Senator Chronicles The Story Of His Unlikely Senatorial Campaign, Detailing The Ensuing Months-long ...

1980 'Baker House' facsimile of original un-dated 1900 ca edition.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Cultural & Ethnic Studies I...

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible...