Biographies & Autobiographies books

Oswald Mosley and A Short History of Fascism is an engrossing examination of Britain's flirtation with fascism and...  Read More >>

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Born into the shadows of Victorian London, Mary Carr began her criminal career as a pickpocketing flower-girl, rising...  Read More >>

Revisiting the Six: Reconsidering the Lives of Henry VIII's Wives examines some of the small details about the six...  Read More >>

Clever, charismatic and daring, Mathilde Carré lived up to the image of the intrepid female spy. Codenamed ""The...  Read More >>

How did a petite dancer from a Welsh mining town become a killer in wartime London? Set against the chaos of the...  Read More >>

Wyndham Ward grew up with a determination to fly whatever the odds. Starting out as boy mechanic in the RAF, he...  Read More >>

As the civil rights movement roils the nation, in a quiet Illinois city, Wilbert Walters goes solo to uplift his...  Read More >>

What if the most bitter seasons of your life are actually the source of your greatest strength? Jerry M. Herrin...  Read More >>

I sometimes wonder what could have happened to me if circumstances were different, if my family members weren't...  Read More >>

A young police officer, shattered by his girlfriend's suicide, transforms into Donny, an undercover agent. As he...  Read More >>

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Personal recollections of time spent with the musicians Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth. Separately, they did...  Read More >>

This is the remarkable memoir of Lidia Lukes-Hitchcock, a film production manager who fled communist Prague to forge...  Read More >>

'There is a thread that ties mothers together, invisible but ancient-a continuum of women who have loved, lost,...  Read More >>

In a country where systemic racism is embedded in every institution, and in a city like Milwaukee-known for its...  Read More >>

A historical sociopolitical analysis of working-class women's writing.  Read More >>

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The 20th century is littered with the ruins of states that were once thought to be impregnable. From the sudden...  Read More >>

Before she became a woman-with responsibilities, battles, hopes, and disappointments- she was just a girl. In...  Read More >>