Biography & autobiography

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

von Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg

[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice.

Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process...

The Rasputin File

von Edvard Radzinsky

From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of...

Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes

von Wendy Holden & Deana Martin

Charming, debonair, and impeccably attired in a black tuxedo, Dean Martin was coolness incarnate. His music provided the soundtrack of romance, and his image captivated movie and television audiences for more...

Animal Rescue Team: Gator on the Loose!

von Sue Stauffacher & Priscilla Lamont

Meet the Carters: Mr. and Mrs. Carter, 10-year-old daughter Keisha, five-year-old Razi, baby Paolo, and Grandma Alice. Together, they run Carters' Urban Rescue, the place you call when you've got an animal where...

Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

von Meghan Daum

From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four...

Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

von Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer

The author of The New York Times bestseller Escape returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she’d been raised in, her hard-won new identity and happiness,...

To Have Not

von Frances Lefkowitz

At the age of seven, Frances Lefkowitz began to realize other people had things that she did not and might never have. This was the moment when the world divided in two, between the Haves and the Have Nots....

Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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

von 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:

von 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...