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A Memoir of My Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now.
In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving,...
Patti LuPone
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.
With nearly...
The Rainman's Third Cure
An Irregular Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An “unforgettable” memoir of searching for enlightenment, from the actor, Zen teacher, and bestselling author of Sleeping Where I Fall (San Francisco Chronicle).
With a title inspired by a Bob Dylan lyric that Peter Coyote considers representative of two competing forces—the transcendental,...
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A memoir from the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live writer that is “funny, spiky, and twistedly entertaining” (Entertainment Weekly).
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider’s view of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live,...
by Anne Heche
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
A beautifully written and evocative memoir of pain and redemption, of hurt and healing, from an actress whose private life and personal choices have made her a household name.
"My life is a life movies are made of," wrote Anne Heche in the proposal for her memoir. Yet what is truly surprising...
by Stefan Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Benjamin W. Huebsch and Helmut Ripperger, introduction by Harry Zohn, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life, bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 156,000 words and 34 illustrations)
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The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service
The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
A coin flip likely saved the life of Kenneth C. Ruiz. It was August 1942 and he was fresh out of the U.S. Naval Academy. He and a classmate flipped a coin to see who would stand watch on the bridge of their heavy cruiser, the USS Vincennes, off Savo Island as the Marines were landing on Guadalcanal....
My Losing Season
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
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During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team...
Marilyn & Me
A Photographer's Memories
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published.
"With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching...
Smash Cut
A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City—a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions—with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary...
by Steve Bluestein
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Steve Bluestein is articulate, and funny, and incredibly insightful. You will laugh as you completely identify reading this book.
– Henry Winkler, Actor best know as
Arthur Fonzarelli on Happy Days
Steve Bluestein has always been able to make me laugh out loud, and now his book…...
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
“Some books celebrate the human condition; others commiserate with us. This memoir does both.” —Helen Oyeyemi, NPR
This spellbinding memoir by the National Book Award–nominated author of The Bird Artist begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a midwestern boy’s summer...
by Sebastian Haffner, Oliver Pretzel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Oliver Pretzel; 78,000 words and 15 photographs)
Defying Hitler was written in 1939 and focuses on the year 1933, when, as Hitler assumed power, its author was a 25-year-old German law student, in training to join the German...
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
“Evocative and beautifully written, House of Stone . . . should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
“In rebuilding his family home in southern Lebanon,...