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Biography & Memoir

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Alfred and Emily - hardcover
By Doris Lessing - $27.95 - add to cart

I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done with...

 

American Prince: A Memoir - hardcover
By Tony Curtis - $30.00 - add to cart

“All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies.” He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in ...

 

American Widow - hardcover
By Alissa R. Torres - $25.00 - add to cart

On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The next morning, he said goodbye to his 7½-months-pregnant wife, Alissa...

 

Audition: A Memoir - hardcover
By Barbara Walters - $34.00 - add to cart

Now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads...

 

Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy - trade paperback
By Jacques Poitras - $19.95 - add to cart

Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2...

 

Beneath My Feet: The Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson - trade paperback
By Phil Jenkins - $21.00 - add to cart

George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a c...

 

Big Bear - hardcover
By Rudy Wiebe - $26.00 - add to cart

Big Bear (1825-1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to ...

 

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity - hardcover
By Bill O'reilly - $30.00 - add to cart

The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least ...

 

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - trade paperback
By Steve Martin - $17.50 - add to cart

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the st...

 

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist - trade paperback
By Roger Lowenstein - $22.00 - add to cart

Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business W...

 

Call Me Ted - hardcover
By Ted Turner - $33.00 - add to cart

These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing per...

 

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession - hardcover
By Anne Rice - $29.95 - add to cart

An intimate memoir of Anne Rice’s Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church – what she calls a decision of the heart. Moving from her New Orleans childho...

 

Champlain's Dream - hardcover
By David Hackett Fischer - $37.00 - add to cart

David Hackett Fischer’s Champlain’s Dream is the enthralling story of an adventurer who was also an able leader with a rare vision for a new world founded on harmony and respect – where Europeans a...

 

Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World - trade paperback
By Samantha Power - $18.50 - add to cart

In this perfect match of author and subject, Pulitzer Prize–winner Samantha Power tackles the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N. before his 2003 death in Iraq was emblematic of...

 

Che: A Graphic Biography - trade paperback
By Spain Rodriguez - $21.00 - add to cart

Since his death in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and exte...

 

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