Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
In Search of Bisco
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
In this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled South
Five decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend—a friend lost to him through the culture of...
Patriot Pride
My Life in the New England Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
A biography of one of the greatest players in New England Patriots history
Spotlighting a New England sports icon, this authorized biography chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Troy Brown, the talented athlete who played 15 seasons with the New England Patriots. Brown demonstrates how...
The American Heroes Collection
Hal Moore, Shadow Commander, and American Guerrilla
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Three stirring military portraits—including a biography of the Vietnam War hero who wrote the New York Times bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.
Hal Moore: A heroic commander in the Vietnam War, Harold G. Moore cowrote the New York Times–bestselling memoir of the battle at...
Counselor
A Life at the Edge of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.
Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary...
by Penelope Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The second book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful When in Rome and Girl by Sea.
After three years living and working in Italy, Australian journalist Penelope Green needs a reason to stick around - true love or gainful employment.
When a...
Bluestocking in Patagonia
Mary Gilmore's Quest for Love and Utopia at the World's End
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In the 1890s in a bizarre social experiment, a band of over 500 Australians - mostly men and just three single women - sailed to South America to create a communal Utopia, a New Australia, in the jungles of Paraguay. One of them was a red-headed schoolteacher Mary Cameron, a poet and feminist, who...
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
In the foregoing volumes of this series of English Men of Letters, and in other works of a similar nature which have appeared lately as to the Ancient Classics and Foreign Classics, biography has naturally been, if not the leading, at any rate a considerable element. The desire is common to all readers...
Retold Tales
A Collection of Treasured Memories
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
In Retold Tales, author C. J. Barnes keeps the treasured, family memories alive. She shares a collection of stories featuring tales, events, and anecdotes from her growing-up years in Faison, North Carolina.
This memoir reminisces about holidays, relatives,...
Me and the Biospheres
A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time. Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight...
Love Imagined
A Mixed Race Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.
"Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota...
by G. M. Godden
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Biography of the 18th century comic novelist, author of Tom Jones. The Preface begins: "New material alone could justify any attempt to supplement the _Fielding_ of Mr Austin Dobson. Such material has now come to light, and together with reliable facts collected by previous biographers, forms the subject...
by Lawrence M. O’Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This memoir reveals information ORourke acquired through conversations with presidents from Johnson to Obama and other national and international fi gures. ORourke is the author of the biography Geno. The memoir covers ORourkes Irish Catholic childhood in Philadelphia, military service in Puerto Rico,...
The Partisan
The Life of William Rehnquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
As a young lawyer practicing in Arizona, far from the political center of the country, William Hubbs Rehnquist’s iconoclasm made him a darling of Goldwater Republicans. He was brash and articulate. Although he was unquestionably ambitious and extraordinarily self-confident, his journey to Washington...
Interventions
A Life in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
"[A] resolute, detailed, and unflinching review of [Annan’s] most difficult hours…No one ever came closer to being the voice of “we the peoples” and no one paid a higher price for it. The world still needs such a voice, but the next person who tries to fill that role will want to reflect...