I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds. Around me fell the shadow of the viaduct that carried a highway over the railroad yards. From the edge of the yards, I squinted as I watched the railroad cars being switched from track to...
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Con...
The WaiterAccording to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server's unique point of view,...
Rich Brother, Rich Sister: Two Remark...
Robert KiyosakiTwo lives. Together, then apart, then together again, as a brother and sister discover the riches of life. Rich Brother, Rich Sister combines the inspirational true life stories of Robert Kiyosaki and his sister Emi into one book that...
A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Dou...
Reza KahliliThe true story of a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran while serving as a member of the secretive and feared Revolutionary Guards.
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraor...
M. D. DosaAn otherwise ordinary cat he'd sooner give you his back than curl up on your lap Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people are about to die. Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the th...
A personal portrait of a mother and a daughter, Who Do You Think You Are? Explores the profound and poignant revelations that so often can come to light only after a parent has died. Balancing childhood memories with adult observation...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt StewartTold with vivid gusto by a young, fiercely determined widow, this towering classic of American frontier life paints a candid portrait of her work, travels, neighbors, and harsh existence on a Wyoming ranch in the early 1900s.
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of O...
Chelsea HandlerIn this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.
When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother—a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him—slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash ...
John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they develope...
A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep ...
Mark FeltIn his own words, the man who was 'Deep Throat' reveals how and why he became the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein back in the days of Watergate. How could a career FBI agent reveal the i...
In the blink of an eye, Mom ran up behind me and pushed me into the fence. Instinctively, I reached out my arms to stop my fall and ended up grabbing the live fence. My hands clamped around the thin wires, and my body collapsed to the...
[*Read by the author - Helen Macdonald] When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of t...
Diary of a Submissive: A Modern True ...
Sophie MorganIn Diary of a Submissive, Sophie Morgan candidly explains what exactly an independent, twenty-first century woman gets out of relinquishing her power and personal freedom in a submissive relationship with a dominant man for their mutu...
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Att...
Charles OsgoodThe year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily route, riding the trolley to the loca...
Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Wors...
Mary PipherIn Seeking Peace, bestselling author Mary Pipher turns her attention inward, and with her characteristic honesty, humility, and humanity, explores the lessons of her own life: as a daughter, a mother, a wife, a therapist, and a seeker...
A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless
Danielle SteelIn her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain...
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at Wa...
R. V. BurginAn unvarnished and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the Pacific Theater of World War II and whose story is featured in the HBO series The Pacific.
Call of Duty: My Life Before, During,...
Lt Lynn "Buck" ComptonAs part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in the critical battles of Normandy and Market Garden and in the freezing cold of Bastogne. Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers,...
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission ...
Greg MortensonGreg Mortenson recounts his experiences as co-founder of the Central Asia Institute, a nongovernmental organization that, since the 1990s, has done exemplary work in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where it has built and operated schools an...
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing...
Elissa WallIn September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fo...
Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
Delia EphronIn Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, writing, movies, and family. In "Sister," she deftly captures the rivalry, m...
Divorced from the Mob breaks the mob code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Mafia and her courageous escape. A view of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, this is an inspirational true...
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyf...
Dean R. KoontzIn a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life. A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerd...
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Eart...
Mitch AlbomBestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.Chika Jeune was born t...
Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New Yor...
Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living.Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that...
Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey ac...
Brian Benson“Let’s hope Benson has more travels in mind. He is a gifted writer, an observant human with an eye for the telling detail and how to tell it.”—Booklist Brian has a million vague life plans but zero sense of direction. So wh...
Finding Peter: A True Story of the Ha...
William Peter BlattyWilliam Peter Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood. His son Peter, born over a decade after The Exorcist, grew from an apple-cheek...
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and ...
Adrienne BrodeurA daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was 14, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with fi...