Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of...
The Water Is Wide
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
New York Times Bestseller: The “miraculous” memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek).
Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the southern mainland, they can’t name the US president...
by Andre Dubus III
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice Awards
Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011
"Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness."—Vanity Fair
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus...
What Remains
A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.
What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince,...
The Book of Separation
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of...
Moonlight on Linoleum
A Daughter's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Now in paperback—in the bestselling tradition of The Glass Castle and The Liar’s Club comes the captivating memoir of a young girl forced by her mother’s instability to care for her siblings.
E******ven if others abandon you, you must never abandon yourself.
This simple truth became...
The Seven Good Years
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry....
Romantic Outlaws
The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous...
The Peabody Sisters
Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times).
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - All 213 Plays, Poems, Sonnets, Apocryphas & The Biography
Including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Tempest & Othello
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - All 213 Plays, Poems, Sonnets, Apocryphas & The Biography". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices....
Storyteller
The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
THE FIRST AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF ROALD DAHL, STORYTELLER IS A MASTERFUL, WITTY AND INCISIVE LOOK AT ONE OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS AND ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS OF THE MODERN AGE.
In his lifetime Roald Dahl pushed children’s literature into uncharted territory, and today his popularity around the...
by Donna Birdsell
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
What is a Jersey girl? "A love of an unpretentious good time, and a certain sense of style. Jersey girls are about attitude. They're about eating pizza, drinking beer, having great hair - and enjoying it all. She's got a mouth on her. She says what she means. And she's got a nice, cheerful...
All Is Grace : A Ragamuffin Memoir
A Ragamuffin Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
It has been over twenty years since the publication of The Ragamuffin Gospel, a book many claim as the shattering of God’s grace into their lives. Since that time, Brennan Manning has been dazzingly faithful in preaching and writing variations on that singular theme –
“Yes, Abba...
When We Were the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award
“Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form…With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!”—Andre Dubus III, author of House of...