Biography & Autobiography
My Kitchen Wars
$14.10 USD
A veteran of the era's domestic battles takes no prisoners in a fierce and funny memoir. My Kitchen Wars is a war story, but the warrior is a woman, and...
My Prison without Bars
$7.05 USD
PETE ROSE HOLDS MORE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER IN HISTORY. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously unbreakable record held by Ty...
My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery
$7.05 USD
by: Reinhold Messner In a terrifying moment during a solo climb in eastern Tibet, renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner confronted a large unidentifiable creature that moved upright with astonishing agility. Convinced...
Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
$16.92 USD
Perhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They...
Off the Record: A Reporter Unveils the Celebrity Worlds of Hollywood,
$14.10 USD
Off the Record is an insightful, funny, and oftentimes moving behind-the-scenes look at the boldfaced names of Hollywood, hip-hop, and sports. Featuring celebrities such as Whitney Houston, Eddie Murphy, Lil'...
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
$18.33 USD
Guided by a Kazakh aphorism-- To understand the wolf, you must put the skin of a wolf on and look through its eyes --adventurer Tim Cope undertook a journey not...
Other People: Takes & Mistakes
$16.92 USD
An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of...
Outside Looking in: Adventures of an Observer
$14.10 USD
One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative. - The New York Times Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy,...
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
$22.56 USD
by : Deirdre Bair (Author)
Paul Simon: The Life
$18.33 USD
A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's full participation--but without his editorial control--by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn....
Pope Francis: Untying the Knots
$14.10 USD
From his first appearance on a Vatican balcony Pope Francis proved himself a Pope of Surprises. With a series of potent gestures, history's first Jesuit pope declared a mission to...
Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
$14.10 USD
A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody...
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
$19.74 USD
by : Samantha Allen (Author)
Red Dust Road
$14.10 USD
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realises that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding...
Return: A Palestinian Memoir
$35.25 USD
The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking...
Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
$18.33 USD
Based on the Emmy award-winning documentary series of the same name, Ring of Fire is a first-person account of the adventures of two English brothers as they explore the astonishingly...
Rocking Toward a Free World: When the Stratocaster Beat the Kalashnikov
$23.97 USD
by : András Simonyi (Author)
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe
$16.92 USD
In 1921, one of the biggest movie stars in the world was accused of killing a woman. What followed was an unprecedented avalanche of press coverage, the original “trial of...
Samuel Beckett: Overlook Illustrated Lives
$11.28 USD
His plays broke all the rules by dispensing with traditional concepts of plot, scene, and character, concentrating instead on the experience of the drama itself. An intensely private man, Beckett's...
Sean Connery (Movie Icons)
$9.87 USD
by: Alain Silver Why is the only non-American winner of the AFI's prestigious Life Achievement Award a Scotsman? Perhaps because Sean Connery's career, though international in scope and global in...
Seiji Ozawa: Symphony Conductor (Picture-story Biographies)
$2.82 USD
by : Charnan Simon
Shockaholic
$14.10 USD
Infused with her trademark incisive wit, Carrie Fisher's Untitled takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scenes tour of the Star Wars phenomenon by : Carrie Fisher
Simon Cowell: The Unauthorized Biography
$14.10 USD
Love him or loathe him, Simon Cowell is arguably the most influential player in the British entertainment industry and one of Britain's most successful exports. After a humble start in...
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
$23.97 USD
by : Devoney Looser (Author)
Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
$16.92 USD
by : John Nathan (Author)
Spare
$35.25 USD
by : Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex (Author) It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s...
Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
$14.10 USD
by Raymond Sokolov Part autobiography, part culinary history, Steal the Menu is former New York Times food editor Raymond Sokolov’s account of four decades of eating. From his pathbreaking dispatches...
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
$21.15 USD
For half a century, Rolling Stone has been popular music's chronicle, and founder Jann Wenner has--for better or worse--been the magazine's driving force. Given access to Wenner's archives and to...
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
$14.10 USD
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to...
The Best Day of My Life
$14.10 USD
'The Best Day of My Life' is full of personal stories - ranging from the frivolous to the deadly serious - painting a picture of humanity at its most upbeat....
The Bradbury Chronicles
$7.05 USD
Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and...
The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
$28.20 USD
by : Benjamin Ehrlich (Author)
The Children of Lovers
$14.10 USD
'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' Proverb Bestselling novelist, author of "Lord of the Flies", William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be...