Biographies & Memoirs

The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project)share the secrets of their lifelong ...

The Marvelously Compelling Biography Of Robert Ripley, The Enigmatic Cartoonist Turned Globetrotting Millionaire Who Won International Fame By Celebrating T...

What Happened To The Public Intellectuals That Used To Challenge And Inform Us? Who Is The Sartre Or De Beauvoir Of The Internet Age? General Intellects Arg...

The Veteran Comedian And Co-host Of The View Uses Her Trademark Humor To Examine The Growing Disrespect And Rudeness In Society And Discusses How A Loss Of ...

At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been ...

Jeff Ashton was part of the prosecution team in the Florida homicide trial of Casey Anthony, the single mother accused of murdering her little girl, Caylee....

Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography--with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy, and moments of high farce. Clever, witty, and sophistica...

One hundred years ago, in July 1916, an act of terrorism in New York Harbor changed the world."A gripping account of conspiracy."--New York Times"A ready-ma...

Product Description A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center ...

It never gets better, but it does get easier. That's the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who's fighting like hell, just hangi...

The Lives Of Three People Are Changed By An Old Man Who Insists That He Is Santa Claus.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable People Mi...

Art Monsters : Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Paperback) /anglaisCategories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

Here in one volume for the first time are three individual titles - Angels, How to Be Born Again, and The Holy Spirit - from Billy Graham, the foremost evan...

The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from identifying the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy. When Peter Piot was in medica...

A Transplant Surgeon Discusses The Pioneers, Science, And Ethical Challenges Of Organ Transplantation As Well As The Ways That Organ Transplants Have Revolu...

Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so p...

An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, writt...

In her powerful new memoir, the #1 bestselling author of Infidel tells the stirring story of her search for a new life as she tries to reconcile her Islamic...

From the earliest stages of our medical training, we experience unforgettable moments with our patients - inspiring, traumatic, joyful, and sometimes even...

Edgar True Crime Award winner! With a new introduction by best-selling true-crime author Ron Franscell. For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor i...

CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota's memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. ...

gala Opera Evenings. Sudden Wealth And Fame. Dangerous Undercover Missions Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany. Standing Up To The Perils Of The Blitz. No One ...

For almost sixty years, Thomas Jefferson kept a journal of his garden and his farms, recording his horticultural successes and failures, the progression of...

One of the NFL's most talented players, Strahan is also one of its most vocal personalities. His first book is a no-holds-barred account of life in the leag...

“America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files and featuring the riveting...

"Read this man's book." --James EllroyA harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels―the real ...

Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, sc...

Michael Beschloss. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 387-408) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Historical United StatesGeneral Lea...

The author of the poetry collection, Bandit Letters, recounts her upbringing in a three-hundred-year-old New England colonial home, a childhood marked by th...

In 1999, Bronx-born plumber Tommy Rosa died after being the victim of a hit-and-run incident. Lying by the road, he felt a tug whisking him off into a tunne...

A profile of American artist Edward Hopper is based on diaries by his wife Jo, revealing Hopper's dour and repressed personality, the sources of his creatio...

A comprehensive analysis of Donald Trump's legal history reveals his temperament, methods, character, and morality. Unlike all previous presidents who held...

there Was Only One Way To Please Her Father: Murder His Wife.... david Brown Was The Consummate Entrepreneur: A Computer Wizard And Millionaire By Age Th...

As Bringing Down the House did for card counters and Positively Fifth Street did for poker players, Dueling with Kings does for Daily Fantasy Sports fans in...

Psychopaths Are Manipulative, Remorseless. They Feel No Guilt. What Would Happen If You Thought You Might Be Married To One? Jen Waite Loves Her Husband. Ma...

The actor shares his memories of childhood and career, from his difficulties as son of the world-renowned Shakespearean actor to his devotion to the practic...

The devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, occurred on April 26, 1986. On April 29, Alexander ...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions...

A young scientist, Judyth Vary Baker, suddenly finds herself immersed in a life of espionage in New Orleans, involving two plots: the attempted assassinatio...

At Three Years Old John Stuart Mill Was Studying Arithmetic And Greek; By The Time He Was Six He Was Enjoying Hume And Gibbon And Writing Roman Histories. D...

A critical look at the life, work, and influence of the important and award-winning Spanish architect Rafael Moneo The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo (b. 1...

An account of the killing spree of Richard Chase describes how Chase murdered two men, two women, and a child and how homicide detective Lt. Ray Biondi spea...

Many musicians sing about heartache, despair, and confusion, but few have experienced those feelings more intensely than James Taylor, who rose from a child...

This extraordinary investigation of the death of the author's grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our ...

The Heartbreaking True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned For Having A Miscarriage-an Injustice That Galvanized A Feminist Movement And Became A Global Rallying Cr...

Berlioz. Vaughan Williams. Schubert and Schumann. Mozart after the Jupiter Symphony, Bach beyond the Brandenburg Concertos, opera after The Magic Flute. In...

The great leader as we've never seen him before. This is the extraordinary documentation of the evolving friendship between the Dalai Lama and the man wh...

in 1922, A College Student Began A Search That Led To The Bible, Jesus Christ, And Life As A Missionary In The Mountains Of China. Her Story Of God's Faithf...