Biographies & Memoirs

Tells The Dramatic Life-and-death Tale Of The Vermont Native Who, In April Of 2009, Was Held Captive On A Tiny Lifeboat Off Somalia's Anarchic, Gun-plagued ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn unforgettable story of an ordinary woman in astonishing circumstances who defies the odds.Timea Nagy was twenty years old when she an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today - As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began t...

Recounts Tania Aebi's Experiences As She And Her Cat Spent 2 1/2 Years Sailing Around The World Alone On A Twenty-six-foot Sloop. Tania Aebi With Bernadette...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sneakers covers nearly everything there is to know about the vast universe of everyone’s favorite comfy athletic shoes.”—Parade“A...

Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling, and one of the most important, fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline respond...

An inspiring story of hope and resiliency On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos ...

The eminent economist and public servant retraces the main and telling events and relationships of his eventful life and draws sharp portraits of some famou...

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

Howard Hughes would have hated this book...because he never wanted the truth to be told. Richard Hack has for the first time written the whole story in a f...

A trenchant memoir of a troubled American childhood from the child's point of view describes growing up in an East Texas refinery town, life in the midst of...

In this love letter to his father, former professional golfer Nathaniel Crosby shares memories of Bing Crosby on the golf course, and the lessons he taught...

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Tur...

A medium and the best-selling author of The Eagle and the Rose, explores a wide range of opportunities in everyday life for spiritual growth and renewal, us...

The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Ba...

In 1968, Olivia Hussey Became One Of The Most Famous Faces In The World, Immortalized As The Definitive Juliet In Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. No...

Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 BC is even...

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chr...

Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman EmpireCharlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the mo...

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfi...

"Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high s...

For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered child...

The Wisdom of Compassion offers rare insights into the Dalai Lama’s life and his efforts to translate compassion into action through deeply engaging, behin...

*with A Foreword By John Grisham* By The Founder Of The First Organization In The United States Committed To Freeing The Wrongly Imprisoned, A Riveting Stor...

The Third Reich was the twentieth century’s most popular tyranny. After Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, most of Germany’s civil servants and profession...

In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the rema...

i Was Sitting On The Kitchen Floor, Heaving In Sobs, And All I Could Think Was: 'this Can't Possibly Be Me.' In A Candid Account, Marie Osmond, Beloved Ac...

In A Landmark Book, An Extraordinary Young Woman Recounts Her Coming-of-age As A Transgender Teen--a Deeply Personal And Empowering Portrait Of Self-revelat...

using Unconventional Examples From His Own Life, Shane Claiborne Stirs Up Questions About The Church And The World, And Challenges Readers To Truly Live Ou...

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles is a-one-of-a- kind publication. It chronicles the rich history of criminal activity in the Motor City. Using information ...

Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producer...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the li...

In this inspiring book, best-selling author and "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan uses decades of experience to reveal the many ways that dogs and people can enr...

Immortalizes Damon Runyon in a biography of the Roaring Twenties journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping, sport...

The story of an epic life on a grand scale, Michael Korda’s Hero is a gripping, in-depth biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman ...

Now in its 50th anniversary edition, Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into m...

Describes The Life Of The Kennedy Family Matriarch Using Information Culled From Her Newly-made-public Diaries And Letters From Defying Her Father's Wishes ...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me share the stories behind the five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination—al...

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by...

This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and sign...

Jennifer Finney Boylan ; With An Afterword By Richard Russo.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Book by Steve PaikinCategories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalCanadian

#1 New York Times BestsellerIn this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klei...

"Miracles from Heaven is a powerful, healing story about family, love, faith, and hope. It amazed me and it will inspire readers everywhere.---T.D. Jakes, ...

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWIA...

Laton Mccartney. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 240-257. Library Journal Best BooksCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays ...

No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight month...