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Rodney Crowell
Chinaberry Sidewalks
From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyh...
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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
Chris Stewart
Chris Stewart continues his account of life on a remote Spanish farm in this sequel to his autobiography, Driving Over Lemons. He ...
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You Know When the Men Are Gone
Siobhan Fallon
In this terse and bold book of eight interconnected stories featuring Fort Hood army wives, breakout author Siobhan Fallon i...
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The Life of
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses ...
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The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry
Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a hu...
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Downing Street Years
Margaret Thatcher
Not since Winston Churchill has any British head of state had as close or as influential a role in U.S. politics and world events ...
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The Path to Power
Margaret Thatcher
In her international bestseller,The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher provided an acclaimed account of her years as Prime Mi...
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Born Round
How a man with a lifelong battle of the bulge landed the job as the restaurant critic for the New York Times, the most influ...
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Chickenhawk
Robert Mason
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by...
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Born Round
Frank Bruni
The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decade...
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A Lotus Grows in the Mud
Goldi Hawn
Goldie Hawn's life is an ongoing tableau of stories, and she has a born knack for telling them. In this candid and insightful book...
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Chronicles - Volume One
Bob Dylan
Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and ra...
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Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors...
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The Life of Elizabeth I
Alison Weir
The Life of Elizabeth I
(1998)
A non fiction book by
Alison Weir
The long life and powerful personality of England's beloved Virgi...
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The Invention of Air
Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson's latest book, The Invention of Air, is a wide-ranging, learned, engrossing biography of the polymath pioneering sc...
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Goodbye Soldier
Spike Milligan
In 'Goodbye Soldier' the central pool of artists, now rechristened the combined services entertainment, complete with Gunner Milig...
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Peace Work
Spike Milligan
In this sequel to his war memoirs Milligan is now on Civvy street and a jazz trumpeter in the Bill Hall Trio, playing at venues ra...
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I Sank The Bismarck
John Moffat
In the early hours of the 27th of May, 1941, the German warship Bismarck scourge of the Atlantic ocean was sailing towards a fat...
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Bonobo Handshake
Woods was an Australian primate lover, flitting from job to job while she tried to decide what to do with her life. Brian Ha...
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Shanghai Tango
Jin Xing
Jin Xing is a former prima ballerina, one of the brightest stars of the Shanghai Ballet. But her journey to her international fam...
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Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson
hat's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventur...
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Into Thin Air - 5 Discs
Jon Krakauer
The author was commissioned by Outside Magazine to cover a climb up Mt. Everest. The story unfolds with a convergence of unc...
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Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon
monumental and originalLiberating the woman known to Jefferson's smirking enemies as "dusky Sally" from the lumber room of scandal...
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Never Give Up
Donald J. Trump, Meredith Mciver
During his long business career, Donald Trump has known astonishing highs and lows. In Never Give Up, the world's most famous busi...
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Roots
Alex Haley
Alex Haley's Roots is the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him. By tracing back ...
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On the Edge: My Story
Richard Hammond
Richard Hammond is one of our most in-demand and best-loved television presenters. In September 2006, he suffered a serious brain ...
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Confessions of Saint Augustine
Saint Aurelius Augustinus
The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiograph...
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The Anglo Files
Sarah Lyall
In the early 1990s, New York Times publishing reporter Lyall transferred to London for love. Now she produces the latest in a seem...
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Queen Noor
Leap Of Faith
Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Najeeb Halaby became the fourth wife of King Hussein at age 27. With he...
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Telling Tales
Alan Bennett
Anyone who doesn't appreciate Alan Bennett should sit down with a cup of tea and a custard cream
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Disgraced
Saira Ahmed
DISGRACED is the heart-breaking true tale of a girl who had the courage to break free. It is a story of escape, adventure and surv...
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Dark Genius of Wall Street
Edward J. Renehan
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius...
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Tokyo Vice
Jake Adelstein
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club: a unique, firsth...
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Star Trek Inside
Gene Roddenberry
Gene Roddenberry Tells us how it all began etc
quality aint super though sounds like its off a lp?
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The Forgotten Highlander
Alastair Urquhart
During WWII, Urquhart managed to survive several near-death incidents. Serving in a battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, he was ca...
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The Last Boy
Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, returns with a biography of an A...
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Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong
In Every Second Counts, Armstrong confronts the challenge of moving beyond his cancer experience, his first Tour victory and his c...
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debr...
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Rusty Young
Marching Powder
This memoir of a British drug dealer's nearly five years inside a Bolivian prison provides a unique window on a bizarre and corrup...
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