Biography & autobiography

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

by Irene Opdyke & Jennifer Armstrong

IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.

“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read,...

Guys Like Us

by Sean Nolan

A son gives a father back his memory, one funny, painful, poignant moment at a time

Taxi Trips to Remember or Forget

by Kenneth Lundstrom

Synopsis: Based on the true adventures of author Kenneth Lundstrom, Taxi Trips to Remember or Forget is a lively and colorful portrayal of his wide-ranging travels across the globe. With taxi rides in various...

Terrible Terry Allen: Combat General of World War II - The Life of an American Soldier

by Gerald Astor

Terry de la Mesa Allen’s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen...

U.S. Presidents for Dummies

by Marcus Stadelmann

Forty-three Americans have held the job of President of the United States. Each has a story, be it one of vision, accomplishment, conflict, scandal, triumph, or tragedy. And each story is at the center of the...

Apprenticed To Spirit: The Education of a Soul

by David Spangler

An absorbing memoir of one man’s path to understanding how we can learn to lead lives of greater blessing and to be sources of blessing and service for the world as a whole.

For as long as he can remember,...

Humphrey Bogart, The Making of a Legend

by Darwin Porter

Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood. This radical...

Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

by Martha Beck

"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."

The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the...

Pop Princesses

by Beth Peters

THE GIRL'S CLUB

They're young, they're beautiful, and they're changing the face of pop music with their dazzling talent and style!

Christina Aguilera: This GENIE IN A BOTTLE is making all her wishes come true!...

Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees: One Thing Leads to Another

by Kathryn Tucker Windham

With sprightly humor and a lifetime spent observing Southern culture, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham shares memories of her childhood in Thomasville, Alabama. She affectionately recounts stories...

The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement

by Constance Curry, Bob Zellner & Julian Bond

Even forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors and classmates...

Last Man Out: A Personal Account of the Vietnam War

by James E. Jr Parker

"I WAS AMONG THE FIRST MEN IN,

AND I WAS THE LAST MAN OUT."

In Vietnam, at both the start and finish of the conflict, 2d Lt. James E. Parker Jr. saw the war as few men did. Now, with uncommon insight and raw...

The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane

by Randall Lane

"A delicious, salacious recounting of Wall Street's bloated decade . . . marvelously readable." -BusinessWeek

Randall lane never set out to become a Wall Street power broker. But during the decade he calls the...

David Bowie: Starman: Starman

by Paul Trynka

"Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie, the artist whose personas are indelibly etched in our pop...

For the Music: The Vince Gill Story

by Jo Sgammato

TO LOVE MUSIC IS TO LOVE VINCE GILL

His pure tenor voice, amazing guitar playing, and superb songwriting skills have earned Vince Gill eleven Grammies and seventeen Country Music Association Awards--making him...

The Ledge

by Jim Davidson & Kevin Vaughan

After Long Silence

by Helen Fremont

"To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is."

Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish--Holocaust...

Paris in the Fifties

by Stanley Karnow

In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay...

INTENSIVE CARE

by Echo Heron

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

Deadly Devotion

by Alysia Sofios & Caitlin Rother

Formerly published as Where Hope Begins, this book is now published under the title Deadly Devotion.

For decades, the family of Marcus Wesson—his wife, Elizabeth, and seventeen children—lived sequestered...