Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
Koba the Dread
Laughter and the Twenty Million
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience.
Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through...
by Brenda Mohammed
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Get a glimpse into life in the days of Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago.
Memoirs of Dr. Andrew Moonir Khan: Journey of an Educator, is an inspiring and motivational story. The book received four five-star reviews from Readers Favorite.
The foreword was written by a former Chief Justice of Trinidad...
by Andrew Bonar
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
An inspirational classic of the young pastor who shook Scotland. In 1843 his friend the Rev. Andrew Bonar writes this touching portrait of McCheyne, a man of God who died when he was only 29 years of age. His commitment to Jesus, his compassion for souls and his passion for revival continues to make...
by Mary N. Garrard
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This is the original, unabridged biography of Jessie Penn-Lewis, written by Mary N. Garrard, her successor as editor of the Overcomer magazine. Originally published in 1930, it has been completely re-typeset; spelling and punctuation has been updated, but otherwise the content has been left untouched....
The Life of Evelyn Underhill
An Intimate Portrait of the Groundbreaking Author of Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
"Margaret Cropper was the first to capture [Evelyn Underhill’s] life, which now in this new century can continue to inspire, challenge and point the way for those on the ancient quest for the holy."
—from the Foreword by Dana Greene, dean of Oxford College of Emory University
SkyLight...
by Rebecca Mead
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town...
The Unpunished Vice
A Life of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.
Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which...
by Henry Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Biography of the artist, first published in 1886, with 172 black and white illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly...
Chief Engineer
Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
"A welcome tribute to the persistence, precision and humanity of Washington Roebling and a love-song for the mighty New York bridge he built." -The Wall Street Journal
Chief Engineer is the first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story-Washington Roebling, builder...
by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
**The #1 New York Times–bestselling classic: A hilarious memoir of two parents, twelve kids, and “**a life of cheerfully controlled chaos” (The New York Times).
Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two...
Home Cooking
A Writer in the Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A delectable mix of essays and recipes from the critically acclaimed writer: “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking” (The New York Times Book Review).
In this delightful celebration of food, family, and friends, one of America’s most cherished kitchen companions...
Darkness Visible
A Memoir of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The New York Times–bestselling memoir of crippling depression and the struggle for recovery by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice.
In the summer of 1985, William Styron became numbed by disaffection, apathy, and despair, unable to speak or walk while caught in the grip...
The Corfu Trilogy
My Family and Other Animals; Birds, Beasts and Relatives; and The Garden of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume.
The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become...
No Ashes in the Fire
Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.
When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug...