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Roy & Me

by Maurice Yacowar

Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar's relationship with Roy Farran-soldier, politician, author, mentor-and...


Ghost Pine: All Stories True

by Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller has published the zineGhost Pine (originally Otaku) since 1996. Whether documenting his youth in suburban Ottawa in the late 1990s, travels across North America or his current home of Montreal, Miller's...


A Very Capable Life

by John Leigh Walters

Written in his mother's unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family...


Remind Me Who I Am, Again

by Linda Grant

'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline ... It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that "Memory, I have come...


Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

by William Hjortsberg

Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others....


No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

by Carolyn Burke

Sympathetic . . . captivating . . . highly effective." Graham Robb, New York Review of Books Concise and gracefully written. . . . Burke surveys all [Piaf's] mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect." James Gavin,...


The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World

by Derek Chollet & Samantha Power

Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served...


Native Sons

by Sol Stein & James Baldwin

James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased...


Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh & Reeve Lindbergh

Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first...


The Mother Knot: A Memoir

by Kathryn Harrison

In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through depression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, and love,.

Spare and unflinching,...


My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

by Zach Wahls

A resounding testament to the power of family and a reassurance that there is no wrong way to be who you are

It has been almost two years since Zach Wahls (then 19 years old) bravely stood up in front of the...


Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way

First published in 1978, Jack's Book...


On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life

by Rupinder Gill

A memoir of a young woman, the product of a strict upbringing by conservative Indian parents, who decides to go on a Ram-Singha, her Indian version of the rumspringa, and learns how to dance, swim, drive, travel,...


Laibon: An Anthropologist's Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya

by Elliot Fratkin

Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to life the voices of those he met, Fratkin invites the reader to...


Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

by Sally Bedell Smith

“An excellent, all-embracing new biography.”—The New York Times

 

From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and...


How Great Women Lead: A Mother-Daughter Adventure into the Lives of Women Shaping the World

by Bonnie St. John & Darcy Deane

In boardrooms and lecture halls, on the field and at home, strong female leaders are making a statement around the globe. In HOW GREAT WOMEN LEAD Bonnie St. John and her teenage daughter, Darcy Deane, explore...


After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family--1968 to the Present

by J. Taraborrelli

For more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys - their joy and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, the dark side and the remarkable achievements. In this ambitious and sweeping account,...


Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

by Amanda Foreman

The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and...


The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod

by Cynthia Huntington

A woman writer's lyrical memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack


DSK May 16, 2011

by Francois Dufour

The astonishing fall of the, at that time, possible next President of France, on May 16, in New York.