Biography & autobiography

It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

by Luis J. Rodriguez

IN A HARROWING JOURNEY FROM DRUGGED-OUT GANG MEMBER TO ONE OF THE MOST REVERED FIGURES IN CHICANO LITERATURE AND AMERICAN LETTERS, LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ CONTINUES THE REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS BESTSELLING MEMOIR,...

This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House

by Herman Cain

When Herman Cain speaks, people listen. When he debates, he wins.

If you care about the future of America, you have heard of the down-to-earth political newcomer running for president, the straight-talking man...

Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir

by Terry Helwig & Sue Monk Kidd

Even if others abandon you, you must never abandon yourself.

This simple truth became Terry Helwig’s lifeline as she was forced to grow up too soon.

Terry grew up the oldest of six girls in the big-sky country...

The Last Blind Date

by Linda Yellin

A fun, charming memoir about a woman who falls in love, packs her bags, and starts over in the city that eats its young.

No Turning Back: One Man's Inspiring True Story of Courage, Determination, and Hope

by Bryan Anderson & David Mack

The word conquer has changed meaning for Bryan Anderson. As a U.S. Army Sergeant in Iraq, it meant taking down the enemy. After becoming Iraq’s fourth triple amputee from a roadside explosive, what he had...

The Puppy That Came for Christmas: How a Dog Brought One Family the Gift of Joy

by Megan Rix

Marley, Oogy, Huck-and now, Traffy, the "forever dog" that changed one couple's life.

All Megan Rix ever wanted was a baby. Yet, month after month, Megan's dreams were dashed. Would her life ever feel complete?...

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark

by Brian Kellow

The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth century

Pauline Kael was, in the words of Entertainment Weekly's movie reviewer Owen Gleiberman, "the...

Book All The Teachers!

by James Bartlett Parry

Book All the Teachers! is a bittersweet account of James Parry's 35-year teaching career. In this humorous yet poignant memoir he reminds us that middle school/junior high is where and when the hormones hit...

The Hidden Passport

by Phyllis Pilgrim

Phyllis tells of her childhood experiences from five to nine years old, when she was interned as a prisoner of war of WWII in Java with her mother and brother in Japanese internment camps for women and children....

Happy Accidents

by Jane Lynch

In the summer of 1974, a fourteen-year-old girl in Dolton, Illinois, had a dream. A dream to become an actress, like her idols Ron Howard and Vicki Lawrence. But it was a long way from the South Side of Chicago...

Sex, Love and Sweet Suicide

by Chin

Chinese by birth but spiritually Italian, Chin's strength and tenacity to overcome drugs, liquor, promiscuity and the very real attraction of suicide is a compelling read. Survival is innate as her abandonment...

Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox

by Charles D. Ellis & Joel M. Podolny

"Charley Ellis has written a magnificent portrait, capturing the indomitable spirit of Joe Wilson and his instinctive understanding of the need for and commercial usefulness of a transforming imaging technology....

Survivor: The Autobiography

by Jon E. Lewis

This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th century, in a period...

A Fish in the Moonlight

by Sidney Homan

The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50s accounts of Bruzzy the Bully; of John Crapp, the television salesman;...

The Journals of John Cheever

by John Cheever & Robert Gottlieb

In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into...

Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine...

Mao: The Unknown Story

by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday

“Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation...

A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster

by Ted Morgan

The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist...

Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption

by Janine Di Giovanni

An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.

Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of...

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

by Hunter S. Thompson

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book...