Biographies & Autobiographies books

From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore’s journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary....  Read More >>

The Viennese Paul Ehrenfest and the Kiev-born Tatiana Afanassjewa built a home in Leiden, Netherlands, which became...  Read More >>

A riveting work of historical merit and storytelling that tells the untold tale of what happened at Belsen concentration...  Read More >>

Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people; A collection of narrative non-fiction,...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award A dominating spirit of public service...  Read More >>

For fans of Kwame Alexander's Why Fathers Cry At Night,a searing expose into the interior of fatherhood, husbandhood...  Read More >>

Forty-five years have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the misery, death and...  Read More >>

An addictive, tell-all memoir which is also a love letter to Korea: the story of a young British K-drama fan who...  Read More >>

Rabbi Philip Lazowski, 95, survived the Holocaust as a child to become a rabbi in America. In Transforming Darkness...  Read More >>

Royal laundresses, corset-makers and professional feather curlers- the hidden story of the people who designed,...  Read More >>

Written in Fagan's clear, popular style, this volume will provide direction for younger archaeologists who wish...  Read More >>

Kimberly shares not only her personal path of survival and rebirth but the universal spiritual truths that were...  Read More >>

The full story (in unnecessary detail) of a seven-figure exit by a solo founder for a bootstrapped SaaS business-start...  Read More >>

An astonishing maritime adventure: the true story of a Captain’s wife forced to take the helm in the most perilous...  Read More >>

The first 45 years of Walter Dexter’s life read like adventure fiction. What credible author would have dreamt up...  Read More >>

With more than 250 historic images and excerpts from Hemingway's letters, journals, and stories, Picturing Hemingway's...  Read More >>

What really makes the royal family tick?  Read More >>

Gearoid Mor Fitzgerald's supremacy bridged the worlds of Gaelic Ireland, the English lordship of Ireland and the...  Read More >>

A delightful collection of anecdotes, musings, and stories from the desk of a herbalist who dedicated four decades...  Read More >>

Harvey Ball, a communications sergeant in the 96th Infantry Division, fought from Leyte to Okinawa in World War...  Read More >>

Presenting Poepoe’s funerary narrative in Hawaiian and in English, this work features a kanikau (mourning chant)...  Read More >>

Tells Fred Harris's many stories: some serious, some funny, and all true. Each story forms a part of this report...  Read More >>

In the powerful and haunting lands of the Southwest, rainbows grow unexpectedly from the sky, mountain lions roam...  Read More >>

The dramatic life and death of Libya's eccentric leader.  Read More >>

Memories and insights of a lifelong social justice advocate as she searches for """"true"""" freedom as an African...  Read More >>