Biographies & Memoirs

By Carrie Young.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Marriage Is Okay, But Adultery Is More Fun. Just Ask Lucy. --desi Arnaz Starkly At Odds With The Utopian Fantasies Of Classic Tv, Desi Arnaz Defined His Rea...

From top journalists and the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency. Revered journ...

”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.” When Joe Orton (1933–1967) wrote those words...

first Time In Paperback: The Landmark Biography Of One Of Hollywood's Last Bigger-than-life Stars library Journal buford, A National Public Radio Comment...

The New York Times best-selling biography of one of America’s most storied military figures. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 burning of Atlanta...

AS a mental health clinician, Rebecca Brown has been a safe place for many to seek shelter from their secrets, silence and shame. Inspired to finally slow d...

IN A PERFECT WORLD... We’d get to hang out with Amy Poehler, watching dumb movies, listening to music, and swapping tales about our coworkers and difficu...

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles sets forth the rich history of criminal activity in the Motor City. Using information from declassified federal documents...

This book continues the narrative of Ginzburg's nightmarish eighteen-year survival of Soviet prisons and labor camps, following the Stalinist purges of 1937...

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his...

[this Book] Takes You To The Western Front During The Great War. Experience The Risks Of Combat And The Many Close Calls Collishaw Had As A Pilot, Flight Co...

What Happens When A Young Wall Street Investment Banker Spends A Small Fortune To Have Lunch With Warren Buffett? He Becomes A Real Value Investor. In This ...

The Light That Was Dark is a sober warning to the world and to the Church. Author Warren Smith learned some hard lessons as a spiritual seeker. Smith’s sp...

Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian le...

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...

An Incredible, Revolutionary True Story And Surprisingly Simple Guide To Teaching Your Dog To Talk From Speech-language Pathologist Christina Hunger, Who Ha...

Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (18...

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of ...

"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete indepe...

A Collection Of Whimsical Autobiographical Essays By The Academy Award-nominated Actress And Star Of Up In The Air Recounts Memorable Milestones From Her Ne...

#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive, most comprehensive account of Queen Elizabeth II's legendary reign. Painfu...

Bravely Addresses A Gender Transition From The Parent's Perspective In Ways That Will Resonate With Anyone Who Loves A Child Who Is DifferentCategories: Par...

A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music iconsboth the tale of his life and legacy and a t...

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bus...

Rona Maynard. A Douglas Gibson Book.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

In Her Most Revealing And Powerful Book Yet, The Beloved Activist, Speaker, And Author Of The Bestselling Sensations Love Warrior And Carry On, Warrior Expl...

As A Child, Victoria Spry Was Brutally Beaten, Neglected And Starved By The Woman She Called Mummy. To The Outside World Eunice Spry Was A Devoted Parent, B...

Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chapli...

One of the most influential hockey books of all time, and the runaway blockbuster that changed the way we look at the sport Finalist for the CBA Libris Awa...

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured un...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...

Alanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military advi...

the Ultimate Insider Rock Memoir About Life And Love With The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Crosby, Stills And Nash, And More. the New York T...

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the cour...

How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habi...

From Waco To Heaven's Gate, The Past Decade Has Seen Its Share Of Cult Tragedies. But None Has Been Quite So Dramatic Or Compelling As The Jonestown Massacr...

The Definitive Ranking Of The Greatest Football Players Of All Time-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: HistoryUnited States

A Young Russian Soldier Offers A Harrowing Chronicle Of His Experiences In The Chechen Wars That Captures The Fear, Chaos, Hardship, Drudgery, And Brutality...

After The Sudden Death Of Her Husband, Sheryl Sandberg Felt Certain That She And Her Children Would Never Feel Pure Joy Again. I Was In 'the Void, She Write...

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben ...

Includes The Diary Of A Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, By Anne Frank ; Edited By Otto H. Frank & Miriam Pressler ; Translated By Susan Massotty, Ne...

New York Times bestsellerHow do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for?When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally f...

national Bestseller“the Most Lacerating Tale Of Drug Addiction Since William S. Burroughs’ junky.” —the Boston Globethe Introduction, Discussion Questions,...

A Guide To The Famous Crimes And Notorious Gansters Of The 1920s, 1930s, And 1940s Includes Biographies, Chronologies, And Glossaries Of The Origins Of Outl...

An Account Of The Horrendous October 2009 Attack On The American Combat Outpost Keating In Afghanistan, Told In A Frank, Engaging Vernacular By The Staff Se...

As Justine Picardie shows in this elegant book, the figure who introduced simplicity into women’s wardrobes was far from simple ... the Chanel uncovered ...