Biographies & Autobiographies books

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 >>

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A powerful memoir about one young woman's survival against the odds, and how the love of her mother saved her. When...  Read More >>

The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia...  Read More >>

The untold story of Nat Bass, one of Australia's most loved entertainers.  Read More >>

Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and...  Read More >>

Errol Flynn was one of the first larger-than-life celebrities, an icon of the screen. This major biography uncovers...  Read More >>

A revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future - and what it means...  Read More >>

A spiky and delicious new literary biography of the great twentieth-century writer Muriel Spark  Read More >>

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

In Anthropomorphosis , a post-divorce escape becomes and opportunity to explores the spectacular wilderness of the...  Read More >>

A powerful blend of WWII history and personal discovery, this memoir traces a son’s search for his father’s forgotten...  Read More >>

G. M. ‘Tom’ Bunning helped to drive the ascent of Bunnings as one of the great successes of Western Australian private...  Read More >>

J. C. Raulston, described by the New York Times upon his untimely death as “a generous-spirited giant among horticulturists,”...  Read More >>

The first biography of A.D. Hope, one of Australia's greatest poets. Alec Derwent Hope (1907-2000) was one of Australia's...  Read More >>

An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota's first modern architect 2024 Docomomo US Modernism in...  Read More >>

John David Gregory did not lose his identity once. He lost it piece by piece. A former University of Kentucky...  Read More >>