Biographies & Memoirs

When actress Claudia Christian flees a troubled childhood and moves to Hollywood at age 17, she steps through the looking glass into another world. From th...

growing Up In East Africa, The Author Describes Her Life As A Pioneer Aviator, A Horse Breeder, Pilot Of Passengers And Supplies In A Small Plane To Remote...

Wendel Clark ; With Jim Lang. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working u...

Have You Ever Been Called Too Black Or Not Black Enough? Have You Ever Befriended Or Worked With A Black Person? If You Answered Yes To Any Of These Questio...

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autob...

Drawing On Extensive Interviews And Unparalleled Access To The White House, Looks At President Trump's Connection To The Christian Faith, The Evangelical Ri...

Explores the connections between the writings and colorful lifestyle of Radclyffe Hall, a best-selling lesbian poet and novelist whose flamboyant antics rai...

1. Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here. -- 2. The Break-ins. -- 3. The Money Men. -- 4. The Nova Scotia Connection. -- 5. The Bagman And The Boss. -- 6. The Tol...

For the audience that read Maria Flook’s New York Times bestseller, Invisible Eden, this is the extraordinary story of a high-stakes murder case set in t...

Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre ...

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened." ...

At age 60 Joyce Rupp didn't know what she was getting into when she began a 47-day pilgrimge along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Joined by a friend, Joyc...

"Gibler is something of a revelation, having been living and writing from Mexico for a range of progressive publications only since 2006, but providing ref...

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION\“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…T...

"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [Mc...

The Founder Of Starbucks Shares His Untold Personal Story--from His Childhood In Brooklyn's Housing Projects To His Rise As A Business Icon--and Lays Out Hi...

Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives...

The Turbulent Life Of Vincent Van Gogh Is A Constant Source Of Inspiration And Intrigue For Artists And Art Lovers. In This Beautiful Graphic Biography, Art...

Winner of the Dafoe Book PrizeWinner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most chari...

In the 20th - the American - Century, no visionary stands taller than Vannevar Bush. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Proj...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Tracy Kidder Returns With The Extraordinary True Story Of Deo, A Young Man Who Arrives In America From Burundi In Search O...

Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bu...

From An Olympic Medalist Runner And The Record-holder In The Women's Marathon And Half-marathon, A Lyrical, Inspirational Memoir On How Harnessing The Power...

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. In a ...

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs ...

Elissa Wall Details Her Life Growing Up In The Polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Religious Sect, Being Forced Into An Unwanted Marriage At The Age...

Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the Nor...

Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding...

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of useCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsScientist...

Charles Pullen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: LawBiographies

Recounts the life of the woman who was married to Randolph Churchill, Leland Hayward, and Averell Harriman and who used beauty, intelligence, and ambition t...

At Breakfast On The Morning Of The Battle Of Waterloo, The Emperor Napoleon Declared That The Duke Of Wellington Was A Bad General, The British Were Bad Sol...

Using newly declassified documents from the Peron government, Peron's own memoirs, and the testimonies of Peron's priest, an Argentine journalist attempts t...

Patrick Boyer's Portrait Of James Chalmers Mcruer (1890-1985), One Of Canada's Most Outstanding Jurists, Sets Out To Discover The Character Of The Man Who P...

James Tully. American Ed. Published Under Title: Prisoner 1167. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [349]-352) And Index.Categories: Biographies & M...

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy. Do yo...

In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from the Tower of London. History has judged they were murdered...

Notorious for her persecution of Protestants, Queen Mary I has been vilified by generations of historians as Bloody Mary. But this award-winning biography...

A.b. Mckillop. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 415-452) And Index.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsGeneral

Prologue -- One : Out Of Ottawa -- Two : Learning The Law -- Three : Cameron, Brewin & Scott -- Four : Getting Into Politics -- Five : Once More Into Th...

Justin Vovk's In Destiny's Hands is the heartbreaking story of five children of Austria's iconic empress, Maria Theresa, who watched as their royal worlds ...

A momentous look at the private companies driving a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk With the l...

The illustrated account of the Group of Seven leader. Lawren Harris was born into the enviable position of having the means to fully devote his life to ...

This is a family with whom everyone can identify. Their lives, however, became public after one horrible event that captured and held the world's attention...

Claire Tomalin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesWomen's Studies

A vivid, searching and intimate portrait of a life trapped by destiny. The full story of the Prince's childhood and upbringing, his adolescence and adulthoo...