Biography & autobiography

Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir

by Bill Bradley

During his terms in the U.S. Senate, Bill Bradley won a national reputation for thoughtfulness, decency, and a willingness to take controversial positions on issues ranging from tax reform to the rights of Native...

Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas

by Tom Callahan

In a time “when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money,” John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers,...

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861

by Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls & John Stilgoe

Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one...

Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

by Sophia Raday

Berkeley peace activist Sophia Raday never imagined she would fall in love with an Oakland police officer and major in the Army Reserve, much less marry one. Barrett is loving and loyal, but in his world a threat...

Fiddle

by Vivian Wagner

Fiddling suddenly seemed vitally important, even necessary, for me to learn. Perhaps it had to do with grief for my mom's death, and with the fact that I was just starting to feel the inklings of a midlife crisis...

Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: The War Time Letters of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer

by Donald Klopfer, Bennett Cerf & Robert D. Loomis

Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after...

Breaking Blue

by Timothy Egan

“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.” 

—TONY HILLERMAN

On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in...

Blue Nights

by Joan Didion

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter,...

Tesla: Man Out of Time

by Margaret Cheney

In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and...

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

by Barbara Leaming

MRS. KENNEDY: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years is a poignant and deeply sympathetic account of Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1,000 days of the Kennedy presidency. Critically acclaimed biographer Barbara...

Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer

by Chely Wright

Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America’s heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely...

Ellen G White: Prophet of Destiny

by Rene Noorbergen

In April, 1906 Ellen G. White was granted a vision foreseeing the destruction of the city of San Francisco. Two days later, an earthquake struck, leveling the city. Once again, Ellen G. White had somehow seen...

Mortuary Confidential:

by Todd; McKenzie, Ken Harra

When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy.

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway...

After Hours : Adventures Of An International Businessman

by Gene Myers

Book Synopsis: Author Gene Myers has experienced many interesting and unexpected events during the course of his professional life. The most memorable of his exploits did not always have to do with his career,...

Dyslexia - An Amazing Discovery

by Jacqui Vittles

Synopsis: Inspirational, moving and truly uplifting are perfect words to describe author Jacqui Vittles' memoir, Dyslexia - An Amazing Discovery. This book is not just about dyslexia, but about Jacqui's personal...

The Dark Journey , Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

by Hoa Minh Truong

Synopsis: Two days after Saigon fell to the communists, Hoa Minh Truong walked along the path leading to the Tan Xuyen village council. He had been there many times during his army service but this time he was...

The Complete Verse of Noël Coward

by Noël Coward & Barry Day

Three volumes of his verse were published in Coward’s lifetime, but while The Complete Verse features all of the work from these three volumes it also presents previously unpublished material for the very first...

When I Fell From the Sky

by Juliane Diller (Koepcke)

She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into...

Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life

by Lisa Chaney

The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon.

Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary...

Duty, Honor, Country

by Mickey Herskowitz

Prescott Bush is the only person in U.S. history to be father of a U.S. President, grandfather of a U.S. President, and grandfather of a state governor. Duty, Honor, Country is more than a biography of the U.S....