Biography: general books

An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag-covering everything from...  Read More >>

In recent years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly...  Read More >>

A significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter,...  Read More >>

In this penetrating biography, Daniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley’s evolving thoughts on race and slavery,...  Read More >>

THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER At the end of his memoir Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer...  Read More >>

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At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy,...  Read More >>

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Part personal chronicle and part political journey…a candid assessment of...  Read More >>

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From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one...  Read More >>

Like its prequel, the bestselling Get It On, Go To War draws heavily on the recollections of the footballers and...  Read More >>

""This book offers a vivid look at the wartime experiences of a Southern Jewish white woman, a slaveholder who was...  Read More >>

Elmer Thomas (1876-1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state's first legislature and in Congress. This...  Read More >>

In recent years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly...  Read More >>

Delirium Diaries is a gripping medical memoir that chronicles Pete Mackenzie Hodge’s unlikely survival in the ICU...  Read More >>

What do Chanel, Sherlock Holmes, Salvador Dali, and the world’s richest heiress have in common? …they were all part...  Read More >>

Using the ""Parallel Lives"" approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William...  Read More >>

This book shows that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west. It studies...  Read More >>

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This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism,...  Read More >>

From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one...  Read More >>

Raw tour stories from beloved rock and roll bands, an inside view of life on the road, the highs and the lows.  Read More >>

'Witches: A Compendium maps the landscape of witchcraft and occult practices, past and present. Within these pages,...  Read More >>