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Confessions of Saint Augustine
Saint Aurelius Augustinus
The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiograph...
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The Anglo Files
Sarah Lyall
In the early 1990s, New York Times publishing reporter Lyall transferred to London for love. Now she produces the latest in a seem...
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Queen Noor
Leap Of Faith
Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Najeeb Halaby became the fourth wife of King Hussein at age 27. With he...
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Telling Tales
Alan Bennett
Anyone who doesn't appreciate Alan Bennett should sit down with a cup of tea and a custard cream
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Disgraced
Saira Ahmed
DISGRACED is the heart-breaking true tale of a girl who had the courage to break free. It is a story of escape, adventure and surv...
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Dark Genius of Wall Street
Edward J. Renehan
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius...
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Tokyo Vice
Jake Adelstein
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club: a unique, firsth...
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Star Trek Inside
Gene Roddenberry
Gene Roddenberry Tells us how it all began etc
quality aint super though sounds like its off a lp?
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The Forgotten Highlander
Alastair Urquhart
During WWII, Urquhart managed to survive several near-death incidents. Serving in a battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, he was ca...
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The Last Boy
Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, returns with a biography of an A...
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Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong
In Every Second Counts, Armstrong confronts the challenge of moving beyond his cancer experience, his first Tour victory and his c...
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debr...
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Rusty Young
Marching Powder
This memoir of a British drug dealer's nearly five years inside a Bolivian prison provides a unique window on a bizarre and corrup...
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Trail of Crumbs
Kim Sunee
Abandoned at age three in a Korean marketplace, Sunee is adopted by an American couple who raise her in New Orleans. I...
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Shawn Levy
Paul Newman
As many diverse roles as Paul Newman played on the silver screen, he occupied nearly as many roles in his real life. Levy, in this...
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Bonnie and Clyde
Paul Schneider
Almost 75 years ago, the four-year murder and robbery spree of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ended in a hail of bullets on a deso...
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The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt
A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel Ne...
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Always Looking Up
Michael J. Fox
The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself s...
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Collection
Gerald Durrell
Beasts in my Belfry
Durrell's account of his early years as a keeper at Whipsnade Zoo filled with the usual assortment of animal c...
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Love, Alice
Audrey Meadows
Frequently Hilarious Memoir, Audrey Meadows Recalls the Years She Spent Playing Alice Kramden Opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph. Thi...
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Bravo Two Zero
Andy Mcnab
On the night of 22nd January 1991, at a remote airfield in Saudi Arabia, under cover of darkness and in conditions of the utmost s...
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Night
Elie Wiesel
Night is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager ...
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The Bedford Boys
Alex Kershaw
This accessible and moving group biography portrays the men of Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, who wer...
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