Biographies & Memoirs

Be prepared to be held hostage to the nail-biting suspense of a world-class thriller. High above the Rocky Mountains, a routine airline flight becomes a mid...

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When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

In the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm,an intensely gripping account of the round-the-world single-handed yacht race that claimed the life ...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about ho...

Out Of The Doubles Kitchen Is A Fascinating Memoir Of The First Family Of Doubles--the Number One Street Food Of Trinidad And Tobago. An Informative, Educat...

"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" (Publishers Weekly) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors in Letters...

In a world where addiction has become the epidemic of despair, Between Monsters and Mercy is an incredible story of hope. It follows the difficult journey o...

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memorie...

Originally titled Virunga, this is the story of Dian Fossey, the mountain gorillas’ greatest champion and martyr. Based on Fossey’s personal papers and on i...

Product Description Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household n...

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography Explores The Life And Career Of One Of Hollywood's Great Dames. She Was A Leading Film Personality For More Than Fift...

Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. ...

2016 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist. When most women go through a mid-life crisis, they start a diet, get plastic surgery, or have an affair. My l...

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals: to observe was to be accepted and to be...

The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the major...

In 1990, On A November Night That Hit Minus 28 Degrees Celsius, Seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild Disappeared Only Blocks From His Mother's Home. His Froze...

Sylvain Routhier Was A Remarkably Successful Police Sergeant With A Struggle That Would Uproot Everything. He Was Dedicated To His Career With The Ontario P...

Meet forty-five dynamic women — from Martha Washington to America's newest first lady. Here is a captivating, photo-filled guide to the extraordinary wome...

A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son’s quest to understand the mystery of his father’s death—a universal memoir about the secrets fam...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six ...

This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family’s pursuit of the American dream.NAME...

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades,...

Despite All The Gossip, The Larger-than-life Personality And Influence Of This Very Human Woman Has Never Been Captured. Biographer Mann Uses Untapped Sourc...

He is the most ornery, cantankerous rule-breaker the sports world has ever seen. Seventy million people witnessed his pioneering event. While his athleticis...

A Sixtysomething Schoolteacher Describes How, Tired Of Celibacy, She Placed An Ad In The Personals Section Of The New York Review Of Books And Embarked On A...

The first detailed and authoritative account of the life, career, stardom, and controversy of one of Hollywood’s most popular and gifted actors "I've alw...

I was a Family Doctor/Surgeon on the Fort Peck Indian reservation in Montana for four years in 1962-6. This book is a collection of stories about my exper...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice Domenica Ruta ...

the Acclaimed, First Comprehensive Biography Of The Most Successful Female Vocal Group Of All Time the Barnes & Noble Review the Lifespan Of The Supr...

For the past two years Pope Francis has enchanted and bewildered the world in equal measure with his compassion and his contradictions. Expanding greatly o...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024 'What Manchester thinks today, En...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless ...

The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly, ...

Exiles In Indian Country Weaves Together The Biographies Of Three Men Who Cast Their Fortunes With The Western Fur Trade In The First Quarter Of The Ninetee...

This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a y...

Chicago Bulls legend Bob Love was a great basketball player, but his story goes well beyond the court. It's a story about the rise and fall of a man who bec...

​"Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruel...

Barry Goldwater is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our century, a man whose influence on America conservatism ...

Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave t...

First U.S. edition. Contains a chronology of his life and a listing of all his published works. xii , 287 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..Categories: Biogr...

Discover the life and lines of Spartacus. . . He is Spartacus. And a whole lot more. That rugged chin. Those broad shoulders. A swag epitomized in epic fi...

Review\A man I like to call my father - football royalty―Ian Wright\Without David Dein there wouldn't have been a Premier League―Greg Dyke\Mr Dein will ...

The King Of The Pill Mills Was American Pain, A Mega-clinic That Served As A Prototype For The Rest. From A Pristine Former Bank Building, Doctors Distribut...

A Children's Book Author Relates How A Workshop For A Group Of Third Graders Grew Into A Three-year Relationship With The Class Of Mostly New Americans As H...

Carole Gene Marer Spent Her Girlhood Dreaming Of Meeting Rock Hudson, But When She Finally Had The Chance--on Her Second Date With Her Future Husband, Telev...

Yoohoo, Mrs. Goldberg! Faye Moskowitz is the modern Mollie Goldberg, with added pizzazz: wry, sardonic, but full of warmth. Categories: Biographies & Me...

The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazz...