Biographies & Autobiographies books

In this biography Dave Bohmer makes the case that Ford Frick was one of baseball history's most effective executives...  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 >>

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual...  Read More >>

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A literary collection honoring and memorializing Selena, the Queen of Tejano  Read More >>

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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 >>

A riveting Texas memoir of childhood on the storied Waggoner Ranch--where wild parties, eccentric characters, and...  Read More >>

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

For thirty years, Carolyn Dallmann held down various positions at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, in Sauk County,...  Read More >>

After giving up his phone for a year, Tommy Short confronts the identity and validation it fed. Told in letters...  Read More >>

One question can change everything. Answering the Hard Questions uses 70+ prompts to help you face doubt, shift...  Read More >>

Women have shaped the field of technical communication for over 50 years. Women in Technical Communication presents,...  Read More >>

What My Wife Taught Me About Life ""Phyllis was one of the most spectacular and magnificent human beings I have...  Read More >>

Gripping the reader at the beginning, Scars and Medals is the journey of Mohanad Alsayed from coming of age during...  Read More >>

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural...  Read More >>

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

On an August evening in 2002, two little girls named Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman set out to buy sweets, but...  Read More >>

A literary collection honoring and memorializing Selena, the Queen of Tejano  Read More >>

My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They...  Read More >>

An unprecedented picture of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West, Mollie Brumley's Civil War is also a remarkable...  Read More >>

Hugo O'Conor: A Shadow of Ireland in New Spain presents a comprehensive biography of Hugo O'Conor (1734–1779), the...  Read More >>

New narratives on the lived experience of the Revolutionary War through five case studies exploring the spectrum...  Read More >>

""This book examines how America's imagined frontier history shaped the thinking of philosopher John Dewey. It explores...  Read More >>