Biographies & Memoirs

This memoir takes you through the rookie years of being in uniform, patrolling the Ghetto on second shift, making some terrible mistakes-apprehending a felon and luckily coming out uninjured, then...

In this honest and engaging memoir, translated from the Italian, Bocelli talks as never before about his blindness, his early life, the importance of his family, stage fright, and the pressures of...

This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front...

This is an historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught on Rome during the Punic Wars. One of the few generals of history to be...

A celebration of success in the face of adversity, this biography tells the story of the young Australian star: a singer, pianist, actress, and cancer survivor who is much in the global public...

A luminous portrait of the Prophet, in the Islamic tradition.<BR><BR><I>Muhammad</I> is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet, composed from the words of Muslims throughout the...

A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s<i>Remembering Denny</i>...

If you have not had the pleasure of losing your sincerity to collegiate cynicism, Stephen Akey gives you a marvelous crash course, tuition-free. If...

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From the author of the runaway <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Running with Scissors</i> comes a hilarious, irreverent, and twisted memoir of becoming a manWith unconventional wit and a...