Biography & Autobiography
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...
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...
Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
$21.15 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...
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe
$22.56 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...
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)
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
$11.28 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...
The End of Your Life Book Club
$21.15 USD
What are you reading? That's the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary...
The Escape Artist J. D. Salinger
$15.51 USD
Thomas Beller J.D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that has sold more...
The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
$18.33 USD
Hardcover From the mobbed-up steel city of Youngstown, Ohio, Mancini was cast as the savior of a sport: a righteous kid in a corrupt game, symbolically potent and demographically perfect,...
The Gun Smoke Still Lingers: A Memoir Through India, Jordan and Beyond
$28.20 USD
"During the celebrations held in Amman for my 80th birthday, my niece Christina read out a message she had brought from my brother, Colin. He wrote: 'In Jullunder we heard...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir
$11.28 USD
America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir-as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels-about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The...
The Last American in Damascus: An Autobiography
$19.74 USD
by : Thomas L Webber
The Last Communard Adrien Lejeune
$15.51 USD
by : Gavin Bowd Adrien LeJeune died in Siberia, 1942, fleeing Moscow from the invading Nazis. It was not until 1971 that his ashes were finally returned to Paris and...
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
$25.38 USD
by : Michelle Obama (Author)
the olive season
$11.28 USD
I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d'Azur the olive groves are...
The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
$16.92 USD
1856, a baying crowd of over 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford prison to watch the hanging of Dr. William Palmer, the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey...
The Scrapbook of My Life
$21.15 USD
Hey guys, I'm Alfie and welcome to The Scrapbook of My Life! Inside this book you'll read all about the day I was born and what it was like growing...
The Time of My Life
$14.10 USD
This is a used book in excellent condition. An entertaining and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood life and a remarkable love, told in the words of beloved actor Patrick...
The Woman I Was Born To Be
$19.74 USD
In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for "Britain's Got Talent" touched the...
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
$19.74 USD
by : Claire Tomalin (Author)
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
$16.92 USD
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of 2017 An...
Tom Cruise: All the World's a Stage
$11.28 USD
Tom Cruise is undoubtedly one of Hollywood's biggest stars and of the most powerful actors of his generation. He became a star in his first film, Risky Business, before he...
VII: David Beckham
$18.33 USD
David Beckham, captain of England’s 2006 World Cup soccer team, is arguably the best-known sports figure in the world. After a decade as a major star for Britain’s Manchester United,...
Warriors
$18.33 USD
The story starts off with the news on the troubles in Kosovo breaking out and then takes us into the preparation, training and deployment. Throughout all of this, my fathers'...