Biographies & Memoirs

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...

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

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...

'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...

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...

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

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...

Richard Wagamese.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsGeneral

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-best...

"My beloved friends," writes Anna Briggs Bentley, "How often do I wish that you could peep in at us and hear the sound of cheerful voices issuing from our ...

Robert Kennedy has been viewed as hero and villain -- as the "Good Bobby" who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it,...saw su...

...And The High Places I'll Bring Down chronicles the transition of Bishop William L. Bonner from the son of a share cropper in the segregated South, to th...

"When I think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, some words Gorky used about Tolstoy come into my mind -- 'Look what a wonderful man is living on the earth!' Reading [...

Raising Royalty Examines The Struggles And Successes Of Thirty Sets Of Royal Parents Over The Past Thousand Years As They Raised Their Children In The Publi...

The singer shares photographs of her concert tour depicting both performances on stage and activities behind the scenes, and offers comments about her life ...

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase ...

See the Collector's Edition of Spoken from the Heart In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private...

two Kids With The Same Name Were Born Blocks Apart In The Same Decaying City Within A Year Of Each Other. One Grew Up To Be A Rhodes Scholar, Army Officer...

In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and...

Overview: He Has Been Called The Most Trusted Man In America. His 60-year-long Journalistic Career Has Spanned The Great Depression, Several Wars, And The E...

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of S...

From David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-comes his most timely, surprising, and heart-stopping thriller, DELIVER U...

"Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." --John le Carré From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street: A tale of Nazi l...

Laird Hamilton has been hailed as the world's greatest big-wave surfer. His first book, Force of Nature, allows readers a rare glimpse inside the unique ph...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from ...

The Presidency Of Donald Trump Marks A Profound Change In The Trajectory Of American Government, Politics, And Culture. He Is The Only Person Ever Elected T...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevar...

Anecdotal, unpretentious, and lively, Feynman's book is filled with stories about his outrageous adventures--from trading ideas with Albert Einstein to disc...

The second volume of Branch's trilogy on the civil rights era. Jeff Shesol Branch spins an intricate, seamless web of politics and personalities, ambition ...

The women pilots profiled in this book have flown from British Columbia to Newfoundland and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Right from the beginni...

The public remembers one Amy Fisher: the sixteen-year-old "Long Island Lolita" who shot the wife of her lover. But for Amy herself, life hasn't stood still...

Fred Bruemmer.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara We...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...