Biography: general books

Keith Hale, editor of Friends & Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914, here...  Read More >>

Fred was born in Kettering in 1915 and he lived for 92 years. He started his own plumbing and heating business in...  Read More >>

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The real succession story of the Murdoch empire is more shocking than the fictional TV series.  Read More >>

""Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking . . . told with stunning originality. Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent.""...  Read More >>

What defines you--the pain of your past or the strength of your survival? Raised in a shattered family and abandoned...  Read More >>

First published in 1928, The Development of Sacramentalism traces the history of the fundamental presuppositions...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this book (now with a new preface by the author) analyses the reasons for the rejection...  Read More >>

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These 100 sonnets tell the story of Mary Shelley, an extraordinary young woman who had an immeasurable impact on...  Read More >>

You've heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean's side of...  Read More >>

Rancho del Llano Seco, an original 1844 Mexican land grant, stands as the last intact Mexican rancho in California...  Read More >>

From a toddler's fall into a puddle on the K-Dam in Thirties Berlin to the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11, Felicia...  Read More >>

CNN anchor Carol Lin is at the height of her career after becoming the first network journalist to break the news...  Read More >>

Love, Loss, and Life between the Biobío and the Danubio This anthology embraces a physical stretch of land, sea,...  Read More >>

This is a reader-friendly biography of 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell, that includes an appendix of...  Read More >>

Two voices from WWII-era England and Illinois share a tender, handwritten memoir of love, resilience, and family...  Read More >>

In 1969 England, an American woman and her British husband navigate cultural contrasts while building a family....  Read More >>

From Foster Care to Freedom. From Survival to Strength. 5% of America's children are in foster care. But who...  Read More >>

From Foster Care to Freedom. From Survival to Strength. 5% of America's children are in foster care. But who...  Read More >>

The story of a woman who has never stopped aearching for beauty, never stopped creating, and even when life has...  Read More >>

During the war's worst fighting in 2006 and 2007, a handful of Iraqi interpreters put their lives on the line to...  Read More >>

Boomerist Fred Lavner has been making people laugh since the day he was born. According to Lavner family lore, he...  Read More >>

The Roberts Family Legacy continues the Anderson Family Legacy Series with a heartfelt tribute to the strength and...  Read More >>

Amelia's story begins at seventeen, growing up in a loving family on the wrong side of the tracks. Despite hardship,...  Read More >>