Biographies & Memoirs

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his twenty...

A Life in Hiding When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger...

Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geogr...

In December 1942, A Team At The University Of Chicago Achieved A Milestone In Human History: A Nuclear Chain Reaction. At The Forefront Of This Breakthrough...

With The Publication Of The International Bestseller The Selfish Gene Some Thirty Years Ago, Richard Dawkins Powerfully Captured A Newly Emerging Way Of Und...

A Seasoned War Correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman Has Covered Every Major Conflict Over The Past Twenty Years, From Afghanistan To Iraq To The Congo. For The ...

Spencer West is many things. Accomplished speaker. University graduate. Natural prankster. Former cheerleader. And a young man without legs—something that...

Trailblazing filmmaker and powerhouse CEO Will Packer presents powerful and illuminating stories from the front lines of Hollywood to offer a clear vision o...

From his earliest days buying Canada’s first FM radio station, CHFI, to developing Rogers Cable, Media and Wireless, Relentless tells the true story of t...

The ultimate front-row seat to the rise, fall, and rebirth of a band that was--for a time--the biggest in the world, Hootie & the Blowish, and Jim Sonef...

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Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 “Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But ...

The Definitive Story Of One Of The Greatest Dynasties In Baseball History, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.when Joe Torre Took Over As Manager Of The Yankees I...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids fro...

Relates The True Story Of How Two Vicious Rape-murders In Small English Midlands Villages Were Solved Using The Revolutionary Technique Of Genetic Fingerpri...

From The Pulitzer-prize Winning Reporters Who Broke The News Of Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment And Abuse Comes The Thrilling Untold Story Of Their Inv...

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

An Original Six Nhl Member, The Broadway Blueshirts Boast One Of The Most Renowned Histories In The Last Hundred Years Of North American Professional Hockey...

The biggest untold story of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election... Finally, the no-holds-barred, 100% true story of Barack Obama's use and sale of cocaine; ...

this Time Together Is 100 Percent Carol Burnett -- Funny, Irreverent, And Irresistible. carol Burnett Is One Of The Most Beloved And Revered Actresses And...

A magnificent new life . . . [and] a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the bes...

This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the en...

Throughout her ground-breaking career in business and politics, Hurricane Hazel McCallion has seen it all. In 1978, she defeated a popular incumbent to win ...

John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with ...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

This book presents an overview of the prominent quantitative and qualitative data that exists on gangs. Academically sound, it synthesizes gang research ...

In The High-octane Atmosphere Of The Formula One Pit Lane, The Spotlight Is Most Often On The Superstar Drivers. And Yet, Without The Technical Knowledge, C...

steve Saint, Author Of The Best Selling Autobiography end Of The Spear (which Sold Over 100,000 Copies And Was Made Into A Feature Film), Returns With A Ser...

John Candy: A Life in ComedyCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureTelevision Performers

The Author, Former Chief Of The Investigative Support Unit Of The Fbi's National Center For The Analysis Of Violent Crime, Discusses How He And His Colleagu...

A Revelatory History Of The People Who Created The Computer And The Internet Discusses The Process Through Which Innovation Happens In The Modern World, Cit...

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons ...

Winner, 2017 Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States * From the historian who has been acclaimed as "doing for the Navy what po...

Live Your Life Full Throttle Behind every entrepreneur's success story, there's a never-ending list of gut-wrenching failures, missed opportunities, and ja...

At Age 33, Melvin Konner Entered Medical School. This Is An Account Of His Third Year When Students First Apply The Results Of Their Endless Book-learning A...

When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, la...

The six daughters of the eccentric Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney have inspired many books, but this group biography is widely considered to be the fine...

Have you ever thought about how your seemingly insignificant life events have formed who you are? How intriguing it is to look back and discover how your cu...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

Updated and expanded: A new edition of the inspiring memoir by one of Canada's most unusual, successful and socially conscious businesspeople."I am differe...

Catherine And Reg Hamlin Left Australia In 1959 On A Short Contract To Establish A Midwifery School In Ethiopia. Over 40 Years Later, Catherine Is Still The...

The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trau...

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 ...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

Peace Was A Talented Young African-american Man Who Escaped The Slums Of Newark For Yale University, Only To Succumb To The Dangers Of The Streets -- And Of...

Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime . Young...

A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years lat...

Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring HeistCategories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeEspionage