Biographies & Memoirs

Carol Burnett spent most of her childhood in a Depression-scarred Hollywood neighborhood, where she lived in a single-room apartment with her endearingly ...

He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one...

Book by Merilyn SimondsCategories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalGeneral

As trusted pastor Dr. Charles Stanley comes to the later years of his life, he is ready to share his personal story—on a more intimate level than ever bef...

After 9/11, Alan Greenspan, Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Board, Knew, If He Needed Any Further Reinforcement, That We're Living In A New World--the World...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

On a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden...

To many people, Walter Gretzky is the ultimate dad, the father of the Great One, and the first inspired coach to a gifted young hockey player. Wayne Gretzky...

As Recipient Of The Nobel Peace Prize, President Of The African National Congress, And Head Of The Anti-apartheid Movement, Nelson Mandela Has Been One Of T...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Biographer Brings To Life The Most Intriguing Woman In The History Of The World: Cleopatra, The Last Queen Of Egypt. Though Her L...

The Page-turning, Never-before-told Story Of Kim Campbell's Rollercoaster Thirty-four-year Marriage To Music Legend Glen Campbell, Including How Kim Helped ...

For the first time, a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in...

Jay Ellis, star of HBO’s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget—part Dwayne Wayne from A Different ...

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I’s favorite, George Villiers, the first ...

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

A Memoir By A Uss Arizona Survivor Describes His Experience Of The Attacks That Left Him With Burns Over More Than Sixty-five Percent Of His Body, His Resol...

Omar Bradley: General at WarCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable People MilitaryWorld War II

Traces The Life Of The American Researcher Who Studied And Fought For The Survival Of The African Mountain Gorilla. Farley Mowat. Ill., Map On Lining Papers...

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel...

MY LIFE - PART B President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectu...

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than a...

The Hollywood Legend Shares The Wisdom, Stories, Insight, And Skills That Life-- And Over Six Decades As An Actor-- Has Taught Him. Coming From Humble Origi...

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The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspi...

Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and risin...

Tells The Story Of The Little-known Dr. John Brinkley And His Unquenchable Thirst For Fame And Fortune And Morris Fishbein, A Quackbuster Extraordinaire Who...

A Portrait Of Albert Einstein Shares Critical Insights Into Both The Genius And Hubris Of Modern Physics, Linking Einstein's Popular Downfall Through The Fi...

just As Henry David Thoreau “traveled A Great Deal In Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Sees Much Of The World From The Window Of Hi...

A World-class Oncologist Delivers A Devastating And Deeply Personal Examination Of Cancer, Offering A Searing Account Of How Both Medicine And Society (mis)...

From Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and rollWhile describing the impulse driving his life and work, Rik...

AUTHORS: Shirin Ariff, Pat Labez, CoCo Roper, LaCountess R. Ingram, Rowena Rodriguez, Shirley Gaudon, Niki Papaioannou, Tania Kolar, and Catherine ClarkCanc...

WINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best boo...

WINNER of CBC Canada Reads Finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the OLA Evergreen Award #1 National Bestseller When the Second...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau’s harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicl...

Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's ...

“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it...

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

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Recounts the brutal murder of four-year-old Dennis Jurgens in 1965 by his adoptive parents, and Dennis's birth mother's discovery of the truth more than twe...

The former coach of the Dallas Cowboys offers a personal look at his philosophy and faith, his management strategies, and his leadership standards, as well ...

Eric Davidson Was A Beautiful, Fair-haired Toddler When The Halifax Explosion Struck, Killing Almost 2,000 People And Seriously Injuring Thousands Of Others...

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 book is Winston Churchill recounting his youth in England before the turn of the 20th century.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notabl...

Two Children Under The Shadow Of Death In The Nazi-occupied Poland: Rachel, A Vivacious And Outgoing Music Lover, Lies Hidden And Silent In An Underground B...

For A Generation That Has Largely Said, Count Me Out, Church Represents A Complicated Relationship Of Both Longing And Apathy. There's A History There- A Pa...