Biography & autobiography

Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me

by Jerry Mcgill

The idea to write to you was not an easy one.

The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.

Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East...

Both of Us: My Life with Farrah

by Ryan O'Neal, Jodee Blanco & Kent Carroll

Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award–nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie’s Angel, whose poster adorned...

My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir

by Garry Marshall

With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall has...

The Grace of Silence: A Memoir

by Michele Norris

In the wake of talk of a “postracial” America upon Barack Obama’s ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered,...

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

by Jennifer Lauck

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary...

It Was Out of Love

by James S. Marr

A true love story of deception, grace, and forgiveness. A husband learns valuable lessons about love, forgiveness, and God's perfect timing, when his dying wife confesses a thirty-year deception and rededicates...

Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams

by Tina Cassidy

Defined in the public eye by her two high-profile marriages, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis faced a personal crossroads on the eve of 1975. Her relationship with Aristotle Onassis was crumbling while his health...

Laura Secord: Heroine of the War of 1812

by Peggy Dymond Leavey

More than many figures in Canadian history, Laura Secord has come to represent courage and perseverance at their finest. During the War of 1812, she helped to avert disaster by warning the British of an imminent...

Keep Up If You Can: Confessions of a High School Teacher

by Bill Sherk

Bill Sherk taught history to Toronto high school students for over thirty years. With his dynamic, creative teaching style, he instilled in his students a love of history and learning. Keep Up If You Can is...

Eugene Forsey, Canada's Maverick Sage

by Helen Forsey & Roy Romanow

Eugene Forsey was an activist scholar, labour researcher, constitutional expert, and senator who fought all his life for the common good. His speeches, articles, and letters informed and provoked Canadians for...

The Best Little Boy in the World

by Andrew Tobias

The classic account of growing up gay in America.

"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports...

A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice

by Richard Russo

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal...

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the love

by Kate Bornstein

A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman...

Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom

by Bay Buchanan

Conservative leader Bay Buchanan shares the real meaning of family values—the joys, struggles, and lessons she experienced as a single mother to three sons 

A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa

by Roger S. Levine

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary,...

Ivan the Terrible

by Isabel de Madariaga

Ivan IV, “the Terrible” (1533–1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing...

After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back

by Nancy Venable Raine

"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when...

Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan

by Donald Keene & Akira Yamaguchi

In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet...

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

by Phyllis Rose

In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.

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While in Darkness There is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune

by Louella Bryant & Howard Dean

A book about Charles Dean, his brother Howard Dean is writing the introduction.