Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
by Brian C. Melton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Robert E. Lee: A Biography takes one of the best known and least understood figures of the American Civic War down from his pedestal as an iconic, legendary hero and transforms him into a human being that 21st-century readers can easily relate to. Author Brian Melton clearly separates fact from the...
Lucie Aubrac
The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Brilliant, intensely political, and inseparable for nearly 70 years, Lucie Aubrac and her husband, Raymond, are legendary figures of the French Resistance. Founding leaders of Libération-Sud, one of the most important resistance movements in France, they ran the underground newspaper Libération...
Chris Matthews Complete Library E-book Box Set
Tip and the Gipper, Jack Kennedy, Hardball, Kennedy & Nixon, Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, and American
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The complete works of Chris Matthews, from his penetrating biographies—Jack Kennedy; Kennedy and Nixon; & Tip and the Gipper— to the trenchant political analysis of American; Hardball; & Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think.
Tip and the Gipper is a magnificent personal history of a...
Albert Camus: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
When Albert Camus died in a car crash in January 1960 he was only 46 years old - already a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a world figure - author of the enigmatic The Stranger, the fable called The Plague, but also of the combative The Rebel - which attacked the politically correct’...
Thomas Jefferson
American Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Originally published in 1898, Thomas Jefferson is a classic biography of the man who so deeply ingrained the republican ideals of the Founding Fathers into American society.
As such, it is the kind of work that avoids the trap of noticing everything that went unnoticed in the past while failing to...
by Russell Hart
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Biographers and historians have lionized Heinz Guderian as the legendary father of the German armored force and brilliant practitioner of blitzkrieg maneuver warfare. As Russell A. Hart argues, Guderian created this legend with his own highly influential yet self-serving and distorted memoir, which remains...
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth
An early years biography of a pioneering environmentalist
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.
Born in East...
Bitter Spring
A Life of Ignazio Silone
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
One of the major figures of twentieth-century European literature, Ignazio Silone (1900–78) is the subject of this award-winning new biography by the noted Italian historian Stanislao G. Pugliese. A founding member of the Italian Communist Party, Silone took up writing only after being expelled...
Bolano
A Biography in Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, the author of the international bestsellers The Savage Detectives and 2666
How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain...
Ann Dvorak
Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Possessing a unique beauty and refined acting skills, Ann Dvorak (1911--1979) found success in Hollywood at a time when many actors were still struggling to adapt to the era of talkies. Seemingly destined for A-list fame, critics touted her as "Hollywood's New Cinderella" after film mogul...
by Book List Guru
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
JAMES LEE BURKE BOOKS IN ORDER
How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better!
2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive James Lee Burke book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes:
• Dave Robicheaux books in order
• Hackberry...
Girl By Sea
Love, Life and Food on an Italian Island
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The conclusion to Penelope Green's bestselling trilogy about her life in Italy that includes When in Rome and See Naples and Die
From her rooftop terrace, Penelope looks out across the sparkling waters of the Bay of Naples, and into a garden of lemon trees and magnolias. Has her Italian dream...
Rage for Fame
The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Her technique was simple: aim for the top,” an envious colleague wrote of Clare Boothe Luce. No American woman of the twentieth century aimed so accurately, or rose so far, as this legendary playwright, politician, and social seductress. Born in New York’s Spanish...
by Madeleine L'Engle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time contemplates the true meaning of faith in the third installment of her series of memoirs.
Upon her death, the New York Times hailed Madeleine L’Engle as “an author whose childhood fables, religious meditations and fanciful science fiction transcended...