New Biography & Memoir Books
My Father at 100
February 6, 2011, is the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan has written My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of…Click to compare book prices
Les Dernieres Annees
Le journaliste d'investigation et auteur à succès, Ian Halperin, expose les secrets bien gardés de celui qui a été elu "artiste du millenaire" en l'An 2000. Fin…Click to compare book prices
Chinaberry Sidewalks
From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking…Click to compare book prices
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Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets
New York Times best-selling author Nick Trout has captivated audiences with his books that take us behind the scenes into the heartwarming - and sometimes…Click to compare book prices
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering…Click to compare book prices
Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows
"Outside were stray animals and people, each about some pursuit. Sometimes it was a beggar at the door, sometimes a leprous hand reaching for a handout with a plea…Click to compare book prices
Mornings on Horseback
From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of John Adams Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant…Click to compare book prices
A Box of Darkness: The Story of a Marriage
Upton and Sally Brady were a rare breed: cultivated and elegant, they lived a life of literary glamour and high expectations. Sally a debutante, Upton a classics…Click to compare book prices
A Confession
At this time I began to write, from vanity, greed, and pride. In my writings I did exactly as in life. In order to possess the glory and the wealth for whose sake I…Click to compare book prices
The Professor and Other Writings
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From one of America¹s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short…
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II is an informative introduction to the life of this major historical figure. Pope John Paul II led the Catholic Church during a time of great…Click to compare book prices
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer's, comes an impressively researched…Click to compare book prices
Twin: A Memoir
A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two years old, Mary began…Click to compare book prices
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley…Click to compare book prices
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir
This is a stunningly perceptive, hilarious memoir of the transformative humiliation of childhood - and adulthood - from a truly original, already beloved voice. When…Click to compare book prices
Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer
Blindness became Captain Scotty Smiley's journey of supreme testing. As he lay helpless in the hospital, he resented the theft of his dreams, but with his wife's love…Click to compare book prices
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston grew up in two worlds. There was "solid America", the place her parents emigrated to, and the China of her mother's "talk-stories". In…Click to compare book prices
The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters
In researching his acclaimed true-crime books, Philip Carlo interviewed some of the most infamous criminals and killers of our times in prisons and on death rows…Click to compare book prices
Known and Unknown
Like Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown pulls no punches. With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with…Click to compare book prices
An American Childhood
A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir…Click to compare book prices
The Memory Palace
When piano prodigy Norma Herr was healthy, she was the most vibrant personality in the room. But as her schizophrenic episodes became more frequent and more…Click to compare book prices
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is…Click to compare book prices
Das Leben des Friedrich Schiller. Eine Wanderung
Sigrid Damm schaltet einfach das Licht an. Und schlagartig wird es hell um den Menschen Friedrich Schiller. Mit viel Gespür rückt sie die Umstände und Bedingungen…Click to compare book prices
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to 'The Blind Side', and Beyond
The football star made famous in the hit film The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher is the young man at the…Click to compare book prices
Bird Cloud: A Memoir
"Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she…Click to compare book prices
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story
"That's when I saw him - the cowboy - across the smoky room." "I'll never forget that night. It was like a romance novel, an old Broadway musical, and a John Wayne…Click to compare book prices
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still…Click to compare book prices
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
From the author of the national best seller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not…Click to compare book prices
Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses
"The studio was decorated in the style of Don't Be Afraid, We're Not a Cult. All was white and blond and clean, as though the room had been designed for surgery, or…Click to compare book prices
My Father's Fortune: A Life
In this memoir, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile…Click to compare book prices
