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Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Ki...

Mike Rothmiller

Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Murdered Marilyn Monroe tells the essential truth of the death of Marilyn Monroe at the hand of Robert Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States. Drawing on unseen police files, Marilyn Mon...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2021

Being George Washington: The Indispen...

Glenn Beck

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host offers a unique spin on the life and legacy of founding father George Washington. If you think you know George Washington, think again. This is the amazing ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2012

Hank Williams: The Biography

Colin/Merritt Escott

In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' 'Hey, Good Lookin',' and 'Jambalaya' sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country m...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2004

My Own Words

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2018

Cut: The true story of an abandoned, ...

Cathy Glass

In her latest paperback, the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2009

Pre: The Story of America's Greatest ...

Tom Jordan

The story of America's greatest running legend.For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1997

The World I Live In

Helen Keller

Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work—one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted ...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2003

Somebody to Love: The Life, Death, an...

Matt Richards

For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Some...

Paperback
Published: May 2018

Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Linda Ronstadt

In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and '70s.Tracing the timeline of her remar...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2014

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and t...

Sandy Tolan

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his sur...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2007

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls’s memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2006

On Writing

Stephen King

In this combination memoir and writing guide, best-selling author King tells of how he came to be a writer and, in the process, explores many aspects of writing, from plot and character construction through some of the nuts and bolts ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2002

No Disrespect

Sister Souljah

Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manu...

Paperback
Published: Jan 1996

Who Was Johnny Appleseed? (Who Was......

Joan Holub

The perfect biography to 'bite into' at the start of a new school year! Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and legendary Johnny Appleseed, a man who is best known for bringing apple trees to the midwest. Over John Cha...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2005

On Gold Mountain

Lisa See

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneuria...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2012

Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Editi...

John Howard Griffin

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

Paperback
Published: Oct 2010

Mrs. Kennedy and Me

Clint Hill

An enthralling, tragic, and intensely private portrayal of the captivating first lady from a man who knew her like no one elseWhen Secret Service agent Clint Hill was initially assigned to guard First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, ...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2012

Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Be...

Valerie Plame Wilson

On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, 'What I Didn't Find in Africa,' appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Nova...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2008

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on ...

Bill Bryson

Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are Bryson's hallmarks, I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF recounts his sometimes-disconcerting reunion with his homeland....[It] chronicles the quirkiest aspects of life in America, right down to o...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2000

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl...

Anne Frank

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942,...

Paperback
Published: Jun 1993

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Alison Weir

"WEIR'S BOOK OUTSHINES ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES OF HENRY. Beautifully written, exhaustive in its research, it is a gem. . . . She succeeds masterfully in making Henry and his six wives . . . come alive for the reader."–Philade...

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Published: Oct 2002

The Last American Man

Elizabeth Gilbert

In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's co...

Paperback
Published: May 2003

Traci Lords: Underneath It All

Traci Elizabeth Lords

The moving, gripping, and tell–all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star. At 14, Nora Kuzma ran away from home and ended up on the dirty streets of Hollyw...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2004

Victoria's Daughters

Jerrold M. Packard

Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's peop...

Paperback
Published: Dec 1999

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection ...

Deborah Feldman

Now a Netflix original series Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infideland Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the aut...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2012

Here We Go Again: My Life In Televisi...

Betty White

The beloved actress currently enjoying a huge wave of popularity brings her account of her life and career up-to-date with new material and photos.

Paperback
Published: Oct 2010

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and ...

Luis Carlos Montalvan

* Now a New York Times bestseller * A heartwarming true dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, transforms a former soldier's life forever Excerpt: "Tuesday combines a golden retriever's innate playful...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Sto...

Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.  Richard L...

Paperback
Published: May 2012

Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma

Jeremy Bernstein

A study of the great nuclear physicist is an intensely interesting biographical profile, both personal and historical, Oppenheimer brings the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. an extraord...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2005

Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The Tru...

Mark Mathabane

The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South AfricaMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his r...

Paperback
Published: Oct 1998
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