Biography & Memoir 100

When unexpected grief brings two families together, how do they start their journey to healing? Join Michael and Gina Spehn--bestselling authors and founders of the New Day Foundation--as they tell ……続きを見る

Barbara “Bobbe” Belmont, the girl from Midnight Express, grew up on suburban Long Island. After graduating from a convent college in 1968, she turned her back on tradition and roamed the globe, imme……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS NOTE: INTRODUCTION THE BORGIAS THE CENCIー1598 MASSACRES OF THE SOUTHー1551-1815 MARY STUARTー1587 KARL-LUDWIG SANDー1819 URBAIN GRANDIERー1……続きを見る

From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, a……続きを見る

Հրատարակությունն ընդգրկում է հայ ժամանակակից արձակագիր Վանո Սիրադեղյանի պատմվածքները («Գառ-ախպերիկ», «Ամեն տարվա գոճին», «Մի ճապրուկ փող», «Սեր առ սառնարան……続きを見る

A former racist skinhead examines his past: How did a teenaged alcoholic become a central figure in the white power movement of the early 90s? What happened to bring about his drastic change of hear……続きを見る

The famous letters written by prominent Javanese and Indonesian national heroine Raden Ajeng Kartini to her friends in Europe, originally published as ‘Door Duisternis tot Licht’ (Out of Dark Comes ……続きを見る

"A Family Like a Prairie." Our families and communities serve as the threshold we cross into our lives. Whether it’s a metaphorical threshold or the actual physical threshold that marks our front do……続きを見る

Featuring the real-life experiences of contemporary African women who tell of atrocities, pain, motherhood, marriage, love, and courage in their daily life, this gripping collection brings greater a……続きを見る

At the start of this haunting memoir, Ruth McLaughlin returns to the site of her childhood home in rural eastern Montana. In place of her family's house, she finds only rubble and a blackened chimne……続きを見る

What is it like to be a young mother threatened with deportation to the country whose government has imprisoned you and whose soldiers have raped and tortured you? You don't want to leave your child……続きを見る

"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, a……続きを見る

Inhalt Einiges von meiner Familie Meine Kadettenzeit Eintritt in die Armee Erste Offizierszeit Kriegsausbruch Überschreiten der Grenze Nach Frankreich Wie ich auf Patrouille zum erstenmal die Kugeln……続きを見る

This book was written to give hope to everyone stricken with a cancer diagnosis. It is the factual account of artist, teacher, and horsewoman, Marilyn Hartness. Her battle for survival took her into……続きを見る

The correspondences included here shed light on the political situation of Great Britain. Bolingbroke wrote these after his exile and his deep sentiments are portrayed in these pages. Besides the re……続きを見る

From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a n……続きを見る

Jolly hockey sticks, and constant scoring… The CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook. Rosie Dixon needs a break from men, men, men – but ……続きを見る

Renowned American humorist Mark Twain turns his incisive wit loose on his own life story in this unique take on the nineteenth-century memoir. Originally composed in a format that studiously ignored……続きを見る

A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly) For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used ……続きを見る

A look at the emotional side of medicineーthe shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to det……続きを見る

Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic. Determined on a literary career at a time when no African American had yet been able t……続きを見る

A heartwarming short story from bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson. A digital-exclusive short story from Casey Watson, plus a sneak peek chapter from Casey’s highly anticipated next ti……続きを見る

Biographical profile of Steve Jobs the founder of Apple Computers and the man who led an evolution in American technology and culture. He ushered in the world of personal computing with the Apple an……続きを見る

A generational account told by each generation in the first person. George E Kennedy, came West in search of adventure in 1898. Starting as a street car operator in Albuquerque, he was recruited to ……続きを見る

On the last day of May 1902 the signature at Pretoria of the conditions of peace brought to an end a war which had lasted for nearly three years, and had among other things destroyed a government, ……続きを見る

Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional counterpa……続きを見る

Don't we all have a big, scary dream? Mine was to own a coffee shop in the Caribbean! For seventeen long years I told myself I was either too young, the timing wasn't right, or the money wasn't enou……続きを見る

Both an artist and activist, Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1990. This recognition was the culmination of decades of work, as Paz strove to marry traditional Mexican poetry with d……続きを見る

Jeanne DeTellis shares her life experience of starting a mission in Haiti by pitching tents on a beachfront property with limited resources. Today in Haiti thousands of children are educated daily t……続きを見る

This hilarious memoir touches all bases of what can and does go wrong with yachts at sea! In a fit of madness the Author bought a 45 foot 15 ton ocean yacht to go cruising round the world. This trac……続きを見る