Biographies & Autobiographies books

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) is known as the great investment banker-entrepreneur of Meiji Japan, credited with...  Read More >>

From a childhood marked by instability, addiction, and generational trauma to surviving teen motherhood, homelessness,...  Read More >>

A warm invitation to slow down and connect, Smile Trinidad's Let's Have A Cuppa is a beautifully illustrated coffee...  Read More >>

All about the man and the director behind The Exorcist and The French Connection.  Read More >>

Music reviews and criticism by a long time music critic.  Read More >>

In ""Memoir of a White Sheep,"" Ina shares her life as a biracial woman, starting with a turbulent childhood. Her...  Read More >>

Inside the walls of Angola State Penitentiary, survival isn't about rehabilitation. It's about becoming someone...  Read More >>

Mothers, Sisters, Soldiers, Spies restores the record of women's participation in American warfare-across battlefields,...  Read More >>

A Smithsonian Best Book of the Year A true crime tale of unbelievable friendship, loyalty, criminal genius, and...  Read More >>

On January 22, 1927, Baylor University's basketball team set out by bus for Austin to play the University of Texas....  Read More >>

Born in 1939 and raised in the rural south, other than his time in the Navy and a brief sojourn working in the factories...  Read More >>

A memoir of magic, rock and roll, and becoming who you are  Read More >>

A political memoir of a life lived in service that’s a testament to fairness and bipartisanship. A native of Leavenworth,...  Read More >>

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Available again in paperback, Going to Cincinnati takes readers into the Queen City's long-overlooked blues scene....  Read More >>

Samuel Pepys's famous Diary records only a short period of his life. This book highlights his wider significant...  Read More >>

Let's Play Pickleball! is for anyone interested in learning how to play pickleball. It's a guide for beginners,...  Read More >>

In Kǒngmíng, Brant von Goble reflects on his unprepared leap into teaching English in Hunan, China, during the late...  Read More >>

She had the life most people dream of - the mansions, the yachts, the designer everything. But behind the photos...  Read More >>

Behind Closed Doors - The Truth About Abuse is a nonfiction memoir that examines the hidden realities of family...  Read More >>

Edmund Burke fue el hombre que discutió con reyes, revoluciones y amigos sin perder la elegancia. Esta biografía...  Read More >>

A memoir chronicling the frustrating, absurd, uncanny process of re-entering life after a bike accident results...  Read More >>

Page after page, Dalasia reveals the truth behind the headlines: the pain, the courage, the fight, and the breakthrough...  Read More >>

Volume III presents diaries and accounts written at the time of the events, illustrated with contemporary photographs....  Read More >>