Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
by James A. Chisman PhD
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This memoir is a domestic follow-up to my book Travels and Tribulations: A Memoir, which is a collection of short stories based on my adventures and observations from extensive foreign travel. This book is a collection of short stories about domestic adventures and observations in the process of growing...
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Voted the UK’s Favourite Nature Book
The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger’s and Me
Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live...
Manson, Sinatra and Me
A Hollywood Party Girl's Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girl's memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign dignitaries, celebrities, sports stars, businessmen - you name it - including the likes of Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack. The average man or...
The Imaginary Girlfriend
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
“Detail[s] Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling . . . with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels” (The Denver Post).
Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving’s candid...
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo
A Frontier Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in...
by Stephanie Allen-Early
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Entangled in Yugoslavia - an Outsider's Memoir is a compelling combination of personal memoir as well as a portrait of a collapsing society.The author is a foreign service wife returning to Belgrade - the scene of a previous posting - to find that the city she had known as a stable peaceful place,...
by Victor Weisskopf
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Victor Weisskopf (126,000 words, 57 illustrations)
In the 1930s, Victor Weisskopf worked with leading European physicists such as Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli. His memoir recounts in simple language how quantum mechanics...
In Deadly Combat
A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2000
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures the sights, sounds, and smells of the war as it vividly portrays an army marching on the road to ruin.
A...
The Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front
An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People's Army. His new draft called into service all remaining able-bodied men, including those whose civilian labor had previously been deemed indispensable. Among the latter was an East Prussian...
by Cory Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**"Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and 2017 Critics' Pick
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2017**
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer....
by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four accomplices, only one—Blanche Caldwell Barrow—lived...
Let's Take the Long Way Home
A Memoir of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A near-perfect memoir: beautiful, humble, intimate and filled with piercing insights. Meant to be savored and shared.”—Time
They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story)became best friends, talking about everything...
The Cap
The Price of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A Polish survivor’s “brutal and beautifully written” Holocaust memoir. “The power of his portrayal of one man’s instinct for survival . . . cannot be denied” (The Boston Globe).
The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul...
No Kids, No Money and a Chevy
A Politically Incorrect Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
PRAISE FOR CHUCK MANSFIELDS
NO KIDS, NO MONEY AND A CHEVY
A Politically Incorrect Memoir
A New Book by a Former Marine and Vietnam War Veteran
Of Chuck Mansfields No Kids, No Money and a Chevy award-winning novelist and essayist Cynthia Ozick writes, "Chuck Mansfield is a...