Biographie & Autobiographie

Albert Kesselring

de Pier Battistelli & Adam Hook

Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in...

Under the Red Blanket

de Bea Andersen Swedien

Under The Red Blanket is a memoir of a Swedish-American family living in a remote area of North East India among the Naga headhunting tribes. The book opens with the father of Bea, Bengt Anderson, immigrating...

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

de Saira Shah

Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born...

A Mind That Found Itself

de Clifford Whittingham Beers

An autobiographical account of his confinement in a mental institution of the time, by Clifford Whittingham Beers.

Confessions of a High-Priced Call Girl: Second Edition

de Dimitra Ekmektsis

Praise for Confessions Of A High-Priced Call Girl "With clients that included Oscar winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Dimitra became the Happy Hooker of the 1990s. Now she shares some of her juiciest anecdotes...

Question

de Lee Hoyle

Lee Hoyle - philosopher, man on the street or genius? Perhaps after reading this book you will make your own mind up. Unedited from his original manuscripts, this eBook contains a large number of 'mini articles'...

Dear Miss Landau

de James Christie

Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but...

Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town

de Chris Bohjalian

In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs....

Medic!: The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam War

de Ben Sherman

A conscientious objector who served as a medic during the Vietnam War offers an unflinching, compelling account of his experiences on the battlefield, describing his work with the injured and dying in the heart...

Girl [Maladjusted]: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood

de Molly Jong-Fast

Molly Jong-Fast grew up in a town house with a pink door and paintings of ladies playing naked Twister. There were world-famous therapists living in her cellar, a secretary with a brain tumor, a nanny who was...

Gurkha: The True Story of a Campaign for Justice

de Peter Carroll

The course of a life can be altered by the smallest decisions; the most innocuous events can turn out to have the greatest of consequences. On a Sunday afternoon in 2004, local politician Peter Carroll invited...

Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family

de Patricia Volk

Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’re never just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never just full–you’re...

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

de Janet Malcolm

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven...

Out of the Canyon: A True Story of Loss and Love

de Art Daily & Allison Daily

On a crisp winter’s day in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, Art Daily suffered a terrible tragedy. While driving home with his family from a youth hockey game, a large boulder dislodged from the canyon wall and...

Loving the Tasmanian Devil: Reflections on Marriage and Asperger Syndrome

de Maureen McCarthy Bartlett

Loving the Tasmanian Devil combines research on autism spectrum disorders and the author's knowledge of literature, pop music and philosophy with accounts of daily life on a large dairy farm with three sons...

An Irish Country Childhood: A Bygone Age Remembered

de Marrie Walsh

This is the heart-warming story of Marrie Walsh, growing up in the 1930s and 40s as part of an idyllic community in the beautiful County Mayo, West Ireland. Her memoirs take the reader to a time and a way of...

Kirby's Way: How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built their Company on Kitchen-Table Values

de Angie Klink

The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself "a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash." He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free enterprise....

No Room for Error: The Story Behind the USAF Special Tactics Unit

de John T. Col Carney & Benjamin F. Schemmer

“John Carney is one of the few heroes I have.”

–LT. COL. L. H. “BUCKY” BURRUSS, USA (Ret.)

Founding member and Deputy Commander of Delta Force

When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special...

The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan

de Edward Seidensticker

Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji. This frank autobiography diary reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage...

Courageous Christians: Devotional Stories for Family Reading

de Joyce Vollmer Vollmer Brown

Our kids need Christian heroes, but sometimes parents feel they lack Christian role models outside the home. This is a family reader created to fill that gap with stories of believers who demonstrated sacrificial...