Memoir & BIOGRAPHY
Memoir and biography titles from Thomas Allen Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Black Dog & Leventhal, Workman Publishing, and Skyhorse Publishing.
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A Life in the Balance
Billy Wayne Sinclair's powerful tale about his time at one of the worst prison systems in America.

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A Quiet Courage
Based on Paula Todd's widely viewed television program Person to Person, an intimate biography show about human behaviour, "A Quiet Courage" shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us. Todd explores the ...

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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

It is the story of a boy growing ...

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All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa
How one woman raises three autistic daughters, loses one at Disney world, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor . . .

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Beautiful Boy
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family?What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff ’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward ...

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Bin Laden
The definitive biography of the man behind the September 11th attacks.

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Born Again

The search for meaning in our time of change and upheaval continues unabated. Tom Harpur, the bestselling author of The Pagan Christ and Water Into Wine, has been at the forefront of this modern challenge to humankind's spiritual ...


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Burning Down the House

Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare. Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience ...


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Burning Down the House

Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare. Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience ...


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Cardboard Gods
The 1970s was a decade marked by Vietnam, Watergate, counterculture, sexual liberation, and stadium rock. For author Josh Wilker, it was a time spent navigating a challenging childhood in which only his prized baseball card collection could give him ...

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Chaplin
A penetrating psychological perspective on the life of Charlie Chaplin.

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Dear Dad

The Marley surname perpetuates Jamaican royalty, resonates from worldwide recognition and represents the pioneer of a cultural, political and social revolution.

In the near-thirty years since the death of the world's greatest reggae-music ...


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Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!
Jesse Ventura—former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL—on what's wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.

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Einstein Wrote Back

John W. Moffat was a poor student of math and science. That is, until he read Einstein's famous paper on general relativity. Realizing instantly that he had an unusual and unexplained aptitude for understanding the complex physics described in ...


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Flavor Flav: The Icon The Memoir
From his twenty-five years as a member of one of the most influential hip hop groups of all time, to his career as a television personality, the word that best describes Flavor Flav is 'iconic.'  Clock-wearing, colorful and sometimes ...

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