Biography & autobiography

Assata: An Autobiography

by Assata Shakur & Angela Davis

This presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard.

Courageous Christians: Devotional Stories for Family Reading

by Joyce Vollmer Vollmer Brown

Our kids need Christian heroes, but sometimes parents feel they lack Christian role models outside the home. This is a family reader created to fill that gap with stories of believers who demonstrated sacrificial...

All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings

by George W. Bush

The most intimate and revealing look at one of America's most private public figures.

Though reticent in public, George Bush has openly shared his private thoughts in his correspondence throughout his life....

Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

by Robert Mondavi

In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi-then fifty-two years old-was thrown out of his family's winery. Far from defeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superior wine. What has...

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi

by David Maraniss

More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high...

A Man Named Dave

by Dave Pelzer

A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy....

Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir

by Catherine Gildiner

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of  stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the course of aboriginal politics. Elvis and cocktails and...

Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood

by Horton Foote

For more than five decades, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the changes in American life -- both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's...

Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel: A Memoir of Becoming Whole

by Steve Fiffer

What would you do if you were seventeen years old and broke your neck? It's tough enough to stand on the verge of adulthood without the extra burden of not being able to stand at all. Steve Fiffer had his whole...

Tis: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself...

Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party

by Shawn Levy

For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank Sinatra brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas.

January 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme...

David Boreanaz

by Chris Nickson

Sink your teeth into Hollywood's hottest young actor.

As the intense, brooding Angel on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, David Boreanaz is a 243-year-old vampire struggling with the forces of good and evil within himself....

Lindbergh

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography 1998

by A. Scott Berg

Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn...

Monica's Story

by Andrew Morton

Behind the headlines, there was one fascinating woman. This is her story.

Monica Lewinsky. You know her name, you know her face, and you think you know her story: the pretty young intern who began an illicit...

Front Row At The White House: My Life and Times

by Helen Thomas

"I'm still here, still arriving at the White House in the wee hours of the morning, reading the papers and checking the wire, still waiting for the morning briefing, still sitting down to write the first story...

1185 Park Avenue

by Anne Roiphe

In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast...

Drinking: A Love Story

by Caroline Knapp

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way...

The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman's Midlife Journey into Judaism

by Lee Meyerhoff Hendler

As we come to recognize the need to nurture our spiritual lives as adults, The Year Mom Got Religion offers sensitive and intelligent wisdom from a woman who learned how awakening to religion can transform-and...

No Ordinary Joe

by Michael O'Brien

Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Paperback includes...

James Van Der Beek

by Leah Furman

No wonder this sexy, shy-guy actor is landing the coolest roles in young Hollywood--from Dawson Leery on the WB's Dawson's Creek to quarterback Jonathan "Mox" Moxon in the hit movie Varsity Blues--he's got that...