Biographies & Autobiographies books

This book provides a new understanding of Jürgen Habermas by focusing on his work as a public intellectual, showing...  Read More >>

A moving look at the challenges and triumphs of caregiving, told through candid literary accounts by more than 60...  Read More >>

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The compelling story of the only German-Jewish translator to work with the psychiatrists in Nuremberg prison   Read More >>

The Only Way Out is Through chronicles queer heartbreak and yearning.  Read More >>

Danielle Mills Walden began tennis at three, became Western New York's #1 at ten, and trained at IMG Academy. Through...  Read More >>

After Myanmar's 2021 coup, a U.S. Marine-turned-entrepreneur stays through civil war to lead a stranded business...  Read More >>

Roger McDowell dishes on everything from the New York Mets to Seinfeld in this lively new memoir Over the course...  Read More >>

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Own Your Life Story is a reflective self-development book that explores how identity, culture, and personal narratives...  Read More >>

In post-WWII America, a lively Irish Catholic family of ten navigates the joys and challenges of life in Elmira,...  Read More >>

The tumultuous life and radical science of a thinker ahead of his time, and the history of an idea that changed...  Read More >>

A spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia-among them, Queen Marie...  Read More >>

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Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, and influential...  Read More >>

The book highlights the biographies and contributions of women to editing, writing, and policymaking in the Canadian...  Read More >>

The gripping, richly researched and highly entertaining story of the great historian whose career was made and unmade...  Read More >>

A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age Who on earth is Elon Musk...  Read More >>

The Immortal Jim Crow tears the mask off what it's like to grow up as an African American in Florida. Author Richard...  Read More >>

This new edition answers questions you might have been left with after reading the first edition. Over 80 pages...  Read More >>

Kathryn is autistic and is a very determined woman, but this year will test her resilience. As her isolation feeds...  Read More >>

My Memoirs - Volume I (Iran) is a powerful and deeply personal account of a woman's life shaped by love, literature,...  Read More >>

From letters to librettos, this collection offers an intimate glimpse at a significant Australian creative partnership...  Read More >>

From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Pumpkinflowers and Spies of No Country, comes the harrowing...  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>