Biographies & Autobiographies books

This book explores Thomas Edison's activities and influence in Fort Myers, Florida, over 45 years, an important...  Read More >>

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene’s verdict on the 41st...  Read More >>

Letters From the Front is a five volume book of Major Oscar R. Fladmark, Jr. Biography in World War II and the Korean...  Read More >>

Letters From the Front is a five volume book of Major Oscar R. Fladmark, Jr. Biography in World War II and the Korean...  Read More >>

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Harwood's spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions...  Read More >>

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self, Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's...  Read More >>

Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are...  Read More >>

Kenneth W. Noe's Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth...  Read More >>

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story...  Read More >>

Dans cet ouvrage poignant, l'auteur donne la parole à sa grand-mère, fidaïya engagée dans la lutte pour l'indépendance...  Read More >>

Loin des clichés d'une vie de privilèges et de confort, l'auteur expose sans fard les réalités souvent ignorées...  Read More >>

The full-career autobiography from one of Ireland's greatest ever jockeys  Read More >>

An evocative, insightful, and unflinchingly raw odyssey of addiction, recovery, and the criminal underworld of Waikiki....  Read More >>

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""Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James""--  Read More >>

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Teddy Peacock-Edwards was one of eleven young men from Southern Rhodesia recruited into the RAF in 1938. This book,...  Read More >>

Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is an audacious tale of an international fraud...  Read More >>

A biography of Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, revealing how for decades she endured not only the...  Read More >>

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‘Fascinating… written with clarity and rooted in deep affection' Observer ‘A timely and balanced book that offers...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

Offers a startling new vision of motherhood: wild, intimate, diverse; as contested and extraordinary as the world...  Read More >>