Biography & Memoir

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Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) - hardcover
By Don Felder - $28.95 - add to cart

The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever, and Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 is the bestselling album of all time in the United States. Through ...

 

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family - hardcover
By Paul Fishe - $38.50 - add to cart

An American odyssey that reveals the fascinating complexities of one of history's most brilliant, eccentric, and daring families The James family, one of America's most memorable dynasties, gave th...

 

I Am Hutterite - trade paperback
By Mary-ann Kirkby - $21.95 - add to cart

In 1969, Ann-Marie Dornn's parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba with seven children and little else, to start a new life. Overnight, the fam...

 

Life with My Sister Madonna - hardcover
By Christopher Ciccone - $28.99 - add to cart

Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his life and forty-seven years of growing up with and working with his sister - the most famous woman in the world.

 

Lives of Eminent Men - trade paperback
By John Aubrey - $16.95 - add to cart

Gentleman scholar John Aubrey spent his life collecting anecdotes, gossip, and biographical details about his contemporaries, and these biographical sketches are the result—a colorful evocation of ...

 

Loose Girl: A Memoir - hardcover
By Kerry Cohen - $23.50 - add to cart

Kerry Cohen is eleven years old when she recognizes the power of her body in the leer of a grown man. Her parents are recently divorced and it doesn't take long before their lassitude and Kerry's d...

 

Memories Dreams & Reflections - trade paperback
By Marianne Faithful - $19.95 - add to cart

This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her ...

 

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot - hardcover
By Anna Beer - $38.95 - add to cart

A fresh and engaging account of the life, times, politics, loves, and letters of the great English poet John Milton on the four hundredth anniversary of his birth. John Milton is one of the world’...

 

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - hardcover
By Jill Bolte Taylor - $27.50 - add to cart

On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her br...

 

Rickles' Book: A Memoir - trade paperback
By Don Rickles - $16.00 - add to cart

RICKLES' BOOK will help you win friends and influence people. RICKLES' BOOK will introduce you to all of his famous friends, from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Carson. RICKLES' BOOK will help you l...

 

Snowdon: The Biography - trade paperback
By Anne De Courcy - $34.95 - add to cart

The parents of Anthony Armstrong-Jones (he was given the title Earl of Snowdon in 1961) were very different. He was Welsh to his fingertips, she an exotic mixture of English and Jewish. They divorc...

 

Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve - hardcover
By Christopher Anderson - $25.95 - add to cart

By turns heartbreaking, uplifting, and compelling, "Somewhere in Heaven" is more than just a portrait of a marriage between Dana and Christopher Reeve. It is the profoundly human story of two souls...

 

sTORI Telling - hardcover
By Tori Spelling - $28.99 - add to cart

She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of t...

 

The Audacity of Hope - mass market paperback
By Barack Obama - $9.99 - add to cart

“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually li...

 

The Geography of Love: A Memoir - hardcover
By Glenda Burgess - $25.95 - add to cart

The Geography of Love is a book about believing in first instincts and second chances. It is a poignant exploration of the depths of the human heart and our ability to love and to trust no matter ...

 

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