Biography & autobiography

The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold,

by Martin Dugard

The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and...

Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

by Larry Colton

In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by "counting coup" -- touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of...

COUNTING COUP

In this extraordinary work...

Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier

by J. Randy Taraborrelli

Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainier, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage.

Faster

by James Gleick

From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a...

Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu

The haunting memoir of a girl growing up in the Moso country in the Himalayas--a unique matrilineal society. But even in this land of women, familial tension is eternal. Namu is a strong-willed daughter, and...

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

by Julian Rubinstein

Part Pink Panther, part Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Slap Shot, this uproariously funny, exuberantly praised book tells the story of Attila Ambrus, a professional hockey goalkeeper (possibly the worst...

Love and Cherish

by Dorothy Garlock

17 years old and terribly alone, Cherish Riley runs into the Kentucky wilderness from the low-down family that dared to sell her. She meets a man named Sloan Carroll, who proposes to her, but he finds that it...

A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory

by Dennis Smith

A moving memoir of growing up Irish Catholic & poor in New York City. Told in the first person, this lyrical remembrance is a powerful odyssey of one young man coming of age in a confusing & sometimes hostile...

The Way Out: A True Story of Ruin and Survival

by Craig Childs

Craig Childs is lost. In a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing else is alive-barely any vegetation, few signs of wildlife, scant traces of any human precursors in this landscape-Childs...

Cancer Schmancer

by Fran Drescher

With her trademark humour, Fran tells of her indefatigable search for answers and the cancer diagnosis that she ultimately beat. But not before a goldmine of humorous insights were revealed to her about what...

You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival

by Wesley Gibson

A wonderfully original tale of the disintegration and mutation of an apparently ordinary American family.--Alison Lurie.

Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

by Phil Lesh, Sherri Flynt & Steve Halliday

In this ruthlessly honest bestseller, the bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead.

The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival

by Mona Golabek & Lee Cohen

Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura Golabek's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport. Jewish musical prodigy...

The Other Side of Me

by Sidney Sheldon

Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, Sheldon has seen and done it all, and now in this candid memoir, he shares his story...

Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir

by Dexter Scott King

Dexter Scott King was just seven years old when an assassin took his father Martin Luther King's life. In this memoir he reveals his shattered childhood in the shadow of the 'King legacy', as well as memories...

Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

by Leonard Mlodinow

For a young physicist struggling to find his place in the world, the relationship that would most profoundly influence his life was with his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom

by Brett Paesel

For young single women, every night is Ladies' Night. For Brett Paesel and her friends, Friday happy hour is all they get--if they can wrangle a babysitter. Like most mommies, they support each other through...

The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

by Howie Carr

Now with an all-new epilogue (with photos) about Whitey Bulger's capture and its aftereffects.

In this riveting "New York Times" bestseller, award-winning columnist Howie Carr reveals for the first time the true...

Camp

by Michael D. Eisner

Over the years, as a camper and a counselor, Disney CEO Michael Eisner absorbed the life lessons that come from sitting in the stern of a canoe or meeting around a campfire at night. With anecdotes from his...

I'm No Saint: A Nasty Little Memoir of Love and Leaving

by Elizabeth Hayt

From Sex and the City (Warner, 1997) to The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (Grove, 2002), literary tales of modern women's sexual escapades have never been more popular. Titillating details about the sexual lives...