Biographies & Memoirs

The memoir everyone has been talking about and moved by now in paperback. Universally acclaimed around the world and a national bestseller in North America...

"A thrilling, coming-of-age journey that will make you yearn to go on your own adventures.” - RUNNER'S WORLD Anna was never anything like those ‘realâ€...

An oral history of the "New York Intellectuals"--political essayist Irving Kristol, critic Irving Howe, and sociologists Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer--capt...

Half A Life Is A Luminously Written Memoir That Will Stand Beside Such Autobiographical Classics As This Boy's Life, Stop Time, And The Liars' Club. A Scrup...

eleanor And Franklin Is One Of The Most Highly Acclaimed Biographies Written In Recent Times. Its Author, Joseph Lash, Won The Pulitzer And National Book A...

Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey… meet your new friend Gary Janetti. Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular t...

Richard Rodriguez.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

Shawn Thornton was an unlikely NHL success, to say the least. The Oshawa, Ontario native was picked late in the OHL and later thought he was being pranked w...

Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most ...

For over 50 years, we have watched as television has entertained, informed, comforted, and thrilled us. We watched as sitcoms evolved from I Love Lucy to Al...

Paris Hilton has a lifestyle most girls dream about. Her name is on everyone's lips — but can she help it if she was born rich and privileged? Now, with a...

"Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and c...

Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her hu...

How does a kid raised by atheists end up in a convent?In her forties, Celia McBride abandoned her worldly life to follow a “sense of call” and explore t...

Photographs trace the Great One's career from playing in his backyard rink in Ontario through his record-breaking career in professional hockeyCategories: S...

A rant-ish memoir by the veteran stand-up comedian and former cohost of That Metal Show, with a foreword by Jim NortonTwitter Trolls. Facebook Freaks. Inst...

An intimate, human and philosophical look at the life of the UFC world champion—his journey from years of bullying to the very top of the world of mixed ...

Song For A Raggy Boy -- Song For A Poor Boy -- Song For A Fly Boy. Patrick Galvin.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismCriticism &...

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

A New York Times Bestseller An Unlikely Political Star Tells The Inspiring Story Of The Two-decade Journey That Taught Her How Washington Really Works—and...

"Running with Scissors" meets "Bewitched" in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who o...

A Profound Rumination On The Concept Of Freedom From The New York Times-bestselling Author Of Tribe Throughout History, Humans Have Been Driven By The Quest...

A hilarious collection of essays, perfect for fans of Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham. A collection of hilarious, poignant and moving essays from the Number ...

Leonardo of Pisa-better known today as Fibonacci-was the first Westerner to recognize the power of the Hindu-Arabic number system (featuring the numerals 0 ...

A keenly and personally observed record of how a place can be so identified with an artist and so evocative of his life's work that it becomes his single gr...

Born A Creole In Martinique, Sent To France In Her Teens To Marry A Distant Relative In Order To Salvage The Family Fortunes, Josephine Was Adventurous, Amb...

The first-person story of Robert J. Middleton, an RCAF WWII No. 6 Group Bomber Command Navigator. It takes us from his childhood days in Toronto, through hi...

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forc...

A revealing account of Led Zepplin's 1975 North American tour including all- new interviews with-and insider information about-the band, from the bestselli...

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

In December 1998, after fifty-six years of marriage, Phyllis Greene went from being part of the lifelong unit of "Phyllis and Bob" to being just plain Phyll...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences t...

Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete ...

A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before ma...

1980 'Baker House' facsimile of original un-dated 1900 ca edition.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Cultural & Ethnic Studies I...

At the age of twenty, an Iranian student named Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals...

A Telegraph Best Book of 2025 'Ingenious' - ★★★★★ Telegraph 'Candid and compelling' - Guardian 'Wistful, sad and funny' - Spectator 'Working-class life pinn...

"For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, an American brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained sealed in the secret files of the KGB and...

Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci's grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci's decomposed body was found in the murky wat...

The twisted copycat who looked to the stars... He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting t...

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...

Tell No OneCategories: Science Fiction & Fantasy Science FictionCrime & Mystery

Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity ...

The Memoirs Of A Celebrity Costume Designer Describe Her Upbringing In The Fashionable Celebrity Circles Of Her Literary Parents, Her Family's Artistic But ...

When Sarah Glidden took a 'Birthright Israel' tour, she thought she knew what she was getting herself into. But when she got to Israel, she found that thing...

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understan...

The idea came up over lunch between two old friends. There was a need for a book that, eschewing sensationalism and simplistic answers, would examine the h...

"Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of...