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...

 

Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea - hardcover
By Chelsea Handler - $28.99 - add to cart

THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFE When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power --...

 

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...

 

Big Russ and Me : Father and Son: Lessons of Life - trade paperback
By Tim Russert - $14.95 - add to cart

Now in paperback -- the #1 best-selling Father’s Day book of 2004, with over half a million copies sold in hardcover. Tim Russert, one of America’s most watched and trusted news anchors‚ connected ...

 

Books: A Memoir - hardcover
By Larry Mcmurtry - $28.00 - add to cart

In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narr...

 

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...

 

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger - hardcover
By Lee Israel - $23.50 - add to cart

Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputat...

 

Circling My Mother: A Memoir - hardcover
By Mary Gordon - $30.00 - add to cart

In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughte...

 

Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See - trade paperback
By Robert Kurson - $17.00 - add to cart

Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entre...

 

Delusion: The True Story of Victorian Superspy Henri Le Caron - hardcover
By Peter Edwards - $32.95 - add to cart

I have a Son who is 1st Lieut. and Adjutant in the Army of the U.S. of America station at Nashville Tennessee from where I am continually receiving communications on general events some of which co...

 

Elizabeth & Leicester - trade paperback
By Sarah Gristwood - $19.95 - add to cart

What was the exact nature of the relationship between Elizabeth Tudor and her favorite, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester? And how did this relationship affect Elizabeth's actions as monarch? Gristw...

 

Epilogue: A Memoir - hardcover
By Anne Roiphe - $26.95 - add to cart

Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roip...

 

Family Romance: A Love Story - trade paperback
By John Lanchester - $19.99 - add to cart

A memoir by the acclaimed novelist The Wall Street Journal called “blessed with a sense of history, a feeling for place, an observant eye for detail, and an elegant no-frills style.” After three...

 

Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari - trade paperback
By Pat Shipman - $17.25 - add to cart

Executed as a German spy by the French in 1917, the notorious Mata Hari was born Margaretha Zelle in 1876, the spoiled daughter of a prosperous Dutch merchant who would later abandon her to the car...

 

First Corinthians - hardcover
By Joseph Fitzmyer - $50.00 - add to cart

This new translation of First Corinthians includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusse...

 

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