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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1958

by Douglas Southall Freeman

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Reinventing Myself in Beijing

by Alan Paul

The inspiring story of a man, a family, a band, a foreign country, and a new beginning

When Alan Paul's wife was offered the job as the Wall Street Journal's China bureau chief, he saw it as an amazing opportunity...


The Pastor

by Allison Gilbert & Eugene H. Peterson

In The Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson, the translator of the multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty books, offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly neglected question:...


Michael Servetus, Heartfelt: Proceedings of the International Servetus Congress, Barcelona, 20-21 October, 2006

by Juan Naya

This book is a tribute to Michael Servetus and his legacy as a humanist, Renaissance scholar, and standard-bearer of freedom of conscience. The Servetus International Congress in 2006 brought together prestigious...


Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer

by Mireya Mayor & Jane Goodall

A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective...


Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings

by Virginia Morell

This biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind.

In this fascinating and authoritative...


In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures

by Helen Mirren

 

Helen Mirren has been an internationally acclaimed actress--and the recipient of many awards, transferring between stage, cinema and television--for over 40 years.

Known in her youth for a forthright style,...


My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm

by Manny Howard

For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal...


The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett

by Tony Bennett

He's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of young girls to wear black outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on his wedding...


I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing

by Kyria Abrahams

I'm Perfect, You're Doomed is the story of Kyria Abrahams's coming-of-age as a Jehovah's Witness -- a doorbell-ringing "Pioneer of the Lord." Her childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and...


Portrait of an Artist

by Laurie Lisle

Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of ninety-eight. Her vivid visual vocabulary -- sensuous flowers, bleached...


Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Enhanced E-Book: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox

by Greg Fitzsimmons

With a foreword from Howard Stern, the enhanced e-book features a total of nineteen videos lasting approximately 30 seconds each, with Bob Saget, Adam Corolla, Kyle Gass, Pete Yorn, Zach Galifianakis, and...


Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain

by Natalie Cole & David Ritz

IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE.

In 2009 Natalie Cole was...


Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

by Buddy Valastro

In this heartfelt memoir, master baker and star of the #1 hit TLC show, Buddy Valastro tells his inspiring story—and recounts his family’s warm memories from a lifetime of living, loving, and cake making....


Dealings: A Political and Financial Life

by Felix G. Rohatyn

It was a German soldier’s chance decision to reach for a cigarette and absently wave a car through a checkpoint outside Marseille in 1940 that allowed Felix Rohatyn and his Jewish family to escape from Nazi-occupied...


The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed

by Susan Whitman Helfgot & William Novak

Joseph Helfgot, the son of Holocaust survivors, worked his way from a Lower East Side tenement to create a successful Hollywood research company. But his heart was failing. After months of waiting for a heart...


Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement

by Carl Oglesby

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. Oglesby's report argued that the conflict...


Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation

by Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they...


From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy

by Terry Lee Rioux

In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise...


Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 2000

by Frances FitzGerald

Way Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prize­winning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald...