wired - Biography & Memoir 13

Sheryl Sanders has lived her life in Tampa Bay for over fifty years, Born and raised in the south she has traveled though out many countries. Her many experiences help her when writing. Sheryl puts ……続きを見る

“Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”ーCleveland Plain……続きを見る

Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and ‘60s, a place and time known for the brutal mur……続きを見る

IF LOVE IS WAR, MAY THE BEST WOMAN WIN! There's a battle brewing for love, the good life and the hearts of black men. Who will win? The answers are broken down between the pages of this how-to guide……続きを見る

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark v……続きを見る

Amelia Earhart was one of the most well known and admired woman of her age. And although she was more homely than pretty, there was an earthiness, a friendliness, and a passion for flying in her tha……続きを見る

'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando 'I should have been dead ten times over.……続きを見る

Eric Newhouse's diary tells what happens after winning a Pulitzer Prize: the honors, the travels, and the opportunities. And the other side of the coin: lost time and a desperate struggle to continu……続きを見る

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret… Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings……続きを見る

Wise Women is a collection of autobiographical essays by important and renowned teachers at mid-life. The essays, which are deeply personal, will focus on how these women negotiate the psychological……続きを見る

Medical training gave them the skills . . . Unfortunately evidence suggests that the medical profession is responsible for more serial killers then all other professions combined. Why is this so? Mo……続きを見る

Finding Mrs. Warnecke tells the inspiring story of Cindi Rigsbee, a three-time Teacher of the Year, and Barbara Warnecke, the first-grade teacher who had a profound and lasting impact on Cindi's lif……続きを見る

Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice……続きを見る

Water and Wilderness... Robinson's irreverent humor gets a workout in Missouri's back country. ...Beauty and Danger "I'd crossed a threshold, a no man's land scattered with rattlesnakes and rednecks……続きを見る

“Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to……続きを見る

More than 75 traditional Amish recipes, practical gardening tips, and firsthand accounts of traditional Amish events like corn-husking bees and barn raisings. The Amish Cook is based on a newspaper ……続きを見る

Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white c……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to bring you a selection of the best-loved stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring one of literature’s favourite detectives, Sherlock Holmes, from our range of timeless liter……続きを見る

British comedian Lee Evans was born on 25th of February 1964 in Avonmouth, Bristol and he has gone on to dominate the comedy circuit, becoming one of Britains most loved comedians. As well as a come……続きを見る

Joe Kita has had a good life. He has been happily married for more than 15 years and has two beautiful children. He is a successful journalist. He has lots of friends. Still, at 40, he wonders about……続きを見る

Professor George Jochnowitz and his daughter Miriam were teaching in China at the time of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. The experience drastically changed the author's way of thinking about Marxis……続きを見る

Follow an ordinary woman’s quest for answers to life’s most universally pondered questions… If you could chat with the creator of the universe, what would you say? Exciting, right? On second thought……続きを見る

This superb biography provides for the first time a candid look at the remarkable life of Walter Williams, the man who founded the world's first school of journalism and perhaps contributed more tow……続きを見る

In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the ‘gentlemen adventurers’ – the fur traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and loss as……続きを見る

Our hero, lets call him Freddy for the sake of confusion, treks to the land of his forebears ~ that unique land of many names, but to the confused and disillusioned, we know it as Mexico. Why is he ……続きを見る

“Now I know that every single day, the best and the worst, only lasts for twenty-four hours.” ーTricia Lott Williford, And Life Comes Back When your life falls apartーthrough a death, a lost relatio……続きを見る

This collection of writings presents a picture of what life was like on a South Dakota farm in the 1950s. It wasn't always easy growing up during that era, and I wouldn't want to be without running ……続きを見る

Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez’s never-before-told story of surviving a harrowing childhood and of how she found successーboth in and out of the Hollywood limelight. Rosie Perez first caught ou……続きを見る

Chi è stato davvero Al Capone? Gangster, mafioso, assassino, ma anche il filantropo, personaggio eccentrico e alla moda, benefattore dei poveri, uomo generoso che dava una possibilità a chi veniva d……続きを見る

What if you were locked in a confinement cell and forced to live with a psychopathic rapist and murderer because the guards wanted to teach you a lesson, or forced to live with a sick, perverted chi……続きを見る