Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
The Elfish Gene
Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
**In this witty memoir of nerd life, the author reflects on “how D&D twisted his teenage development—and about how twisted teenage development is in general” (The Seattle Times).
Summer, 1976. Twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had a chance to be normal. He blew it. While other teenagers...
I Will Not Grow Downward - Memoir Of An Eritrean Refugee
My Long And Perilous Flight From Africa's Hermit Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
I WILL NOT GROW DOWNWARD - MEMOIR OF AN ERITREAN REFUGEE
ONE MAN'S LONG AND PERILOUS FLIGHT FROM AFRICA'S HERMIT KINGDOM
Thirty years of conflict with a powerful enemy never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people. After winning their freedom from Ethiopia, a young man dreams of starting...
The Sixth Man
A String of Pearls
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
This is the memoir of an eighteen-year-old World War II Army Air Corp Cadet. Join him as he matures over his three years in the military learning to fly, handle success, failure, and love. If you`re looking for the usual war story, this isn`t it, but you will experience the military environment at...
Combat Reporter
Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
“No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”—from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson
Winner of two Pulitzer...
Backing into the Spotlight
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity' Daily Mail
Standing in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios,...
Empty Hands, A Memoir
One Woman's Journey to Save Children Orphaned by AIDS in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse...
Conduct Unbecoming – A Memoir by Desmond O’Malley
The Story of One of Ireland’s Most Extraordinary and Influential Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland’s most outspoken and respected public figures, Desmond O’Malley.
Born in Limerick in 1939, Desmond O’Malley went on to become the youngest Minister for Justice in Irish history and the founder of the Progressive Democrats,...
The Education of Eva Moskowitz
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America’s education system.
Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"— if that’s a...
The Glass Castle
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one...
Auto da Fay
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A New York Times Notable Book: The “wise and haunting” memoir from one of England’s most witty and beloved writers is “from first to last a wonder” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post).
From life as a poor unwed mother in London to becoming one of England’s bestselling authors, Fay...
Nobu
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa...shares lessons in humility, gratitude, and empathy that will stick with readers long after they’ve finished the final chapter.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A fascinating and unique memoir by the acclaimed celebrity...
Children of Dust
A Memoir of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“[Eteraz’s] adventures are a heavenly read.” —O, the Oprah magazine
“In this supremely assured, lush, and rip-roaring book, Eteraz manages to do the impossible, gliding confidently over the chasm that divides East and West. Wildly entertaining…memoir of the first order.” —Murad...
Poster Child
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations, had lost most of her leg, from just above the knee, and had become the smiling, indefatigable "poster child" for the...
by Gabrielle Selz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Luminous and revealing, a daughter’s memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father.
In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father, Peter Selz, would begin his job as the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the...