Biography & Autobiography
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 Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West: A Biography
$16.92 USD
Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth century literary scene. A passionate suffragist, socialist, fiercely intelligent, Rebecca West began her career as a writer with articles in The...
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 Importance of Music to Girls (Faber Poetry)
$14.10 USD
by : Lavinia Greenlaw (Author)
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 Measure of Her Last Marathon: Conversations with Deema Abu Ali
$28.20 USD
by Moïse Songolo HALAFU (Author), Dana Shalabi (Editor) This is the true and heroic story of Deema, a young lady in her early 40’s working for an international organization based in Amman, Jordan. She...
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 Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
$21.15 USD
From the author of In the Country of Men, a Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home...
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
$16.92 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...
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
$25.38 USD
by : Gail Crowther (Author)
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
$14.10 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
$11.28 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'...
Wave
$28.20 USD
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she...
Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life
$18.33 USD
A candid, entertaining memoir told through clothes for readers of Anjelica Huston, Diane von Furstenberg, and Nora Ephron. Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950 s and...
When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles'
$15.51 USD
by Larry Kane"Larry Kane was the only broadcast journalist to travel with the Beatles on their triumphant 1964 and '65 North American tours.... Combining the results of some deep digging...
When You Wish Upon A Star... Be Careful What You Wish For!
$7.05 USD
by: Karen Swanson | Jun 27, 2006
Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan
$14.10 USD
For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock's shifting sensibilities. Few American artists are as important, beloved, and endlessly examined, yet he remains something...
