Biography & autobiography

Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity

by Anna Broadway

Anna Broadway’s “Sexless in the City” blog has become a popular Internet destination, attracting readers with its amusing tales of romantic misadventures and candid, far-from-prissy reports on the difficulties...

Louis Armstrong

by Laurence Bergreen

Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told.

Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter...

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds

by Joel L. Kraemer

This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly...

Pray: Notes on a Football Season

by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the...

Forget About Today: Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Personal Revolution

by Jon Friedman

Forget About Today shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people—from fans to skeptics—have never seen. Rather than another gossipy account of his romances, finances, or family, journalist Jon Friedman offers...

The Liars' Club: A Memoir

by Mary Karr

When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s...

First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life

by Eve Brown-Waite

In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little-black-heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him—literally—to the ends of the earth.

Eve Brown always thought...

Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic

by Stuart Woods & Stephen Collins

Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this...

I'll Stand by You: One Woman's Mission to Heal the Children of the World

by Elissa Montanti & Jennifer Haupt

“The saint of Staten Island” (People magazine) shares the inspirational story of how she’s changing the world, one child at a time

Fourteen years ago, Elissa Montanti was reeling from the loss of several...

It Must Have Been Moonglow: Reflections on the First Years of Widowhood

by Phyllis Greene

In December 1998, after fifty-six years of marriage, Phyllis Greene went from being part of the lifelong unit of "Phyllis and Bob" to being just plain Phyllis.

To deal with her feelings, she began keeping a journal....

Dash: Bitch of the Year

by Andrew Dilger

A heart-warming memoir about the adoption of a champion greyhound and her transformation into ring-bearer at her new owner’s wedding Andrew had always wanted a dog—something you could mould into the perfect...

A Lizard In My Luggage: Mayfair To Mallorca In One Easy Move

by Anna Nicholas

Anna had never liked the idea of Mallorca, thinking it was for the disco and beerswilling fraternity. That was until her sister hired an au pair from a rural part of the island who said it was the most beautiful...

African Brew Ha-Ha: A Motorcycle Quest from Lancashire to Cape Town

by Alan Whelan

A 14,000 mile motorcycle journey through Africa that created memories to last a lifetime Alan Whelan was on a unique quest to find the people in the hidden heart of Africa. On the 14,000 mile solo journey...

Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking: The Emergence of Dialogical Self Theory

by Hubert J. M. Hermans

In this book, Hubert J. M. Hermans, the creator of Dialogical Self Theory, applies this theory to his own life and explains how readers can do the same. Through a series of thought-provoking questions, he invites...

Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives

by Peter Ackroyd

In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet’s works.

Geoffrey...

Normal Sara Jane Vol II

by Susan Engler

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

by Anne C. Heller

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States....

Ernie:

by Ernest Borgnine

"[Borgnine's] anecdotes are gleefully self-deprecating. . .he comes off as the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with."--NY Post

For more than fifty years, Ernest Borgnine--"Ernie" to his friends--has been...

The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church

by John L. Jr Allen

From the author of Conclave and All the Pope’s Men comes the story of Pope John Paul II’s last days, the behind-the-scenes dynamics within the College of Cardinals that led to the choice of Joseph Ratzinger...

Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography

by Burton Hersh

In this groundbreaking biography, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines extensive critical research with more than fifty years of never-before-told anecdotes and observations from his lifelong acquaintance...