Biographies & Memoirs

An English man, William Crimsworth, takes on the job of a teacher in Brussels and falls in love with his beautiful colleague Fances Henri, an Anglo-Swiss girl.A novel that flouted the conventional ethos of the contemporary times, The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's first completed novel, published ... More

For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried t... More

This is the third memoir from the author of the 'Angela's Ashes' and ' 'Tis'. In 'Teacher Man', Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.... More

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and ... More

Living History is Hillary Rodham Clinton's revealing memoir of her White House years-of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty year adventure in love and politics. Hillary Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. She charted her own course as the on... More

Praise for My Life as a Quant "My Life as a Quant, by Emanuel Derman is, indeed, a perfect memoir, as Derman, a South African-born physicist turned financial engineer, is a perfect memoirist." --Grant's Interest Rate Observer "That sense of being an intruder in outlaw territory lends an intriguing... More

In this book Michael Lynch presents an engaging and thoroughaccount of Mao's life and politics, making use of a wealth of primary andsecondary sources. He locates Maoism in the broader context of twentieth-centuryChinese history, discussing the development of the Chinese Communist Party, thecreation... More

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling memoir by President Clinton--the top-selling presidential memoir of all time--arrives in a two-volume mass market release. Concentrating on his early life, this first volume contains new photographs and new material by the author. "My Life, Vol. 2: The Presidentia... More

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, is the story of Stephen Dedalus, and the narrative provides an oblique self-portrait of the author himself. Divided into five sections, Joyce's first novel follows Stephen's life from childhood through adolescence to the first flush of manh... More

In March 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India, with the mandate to hand over "the jewel in the crown" of the British Empire within one year. Mountbatten worked with various leaders to devise a plan for partitioning the empire into two independent sovereign states. During the ... More

Gottlieb's lovingly written, emotionally gripping book of letters to his grandson offers unique--and universal--insights into what it means to be human.When his grandson was born, Daniel Gottlieb began to write a series of heartfelt letters that he hoped Sam would read later in life. He planned to c... More

In the tradition of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founds in the middle of the Afghan city of Kabul, and lifts the veil of secrecy about the vibrant women who were her students there.Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went t... More

Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.... More

A revelatory account of Tony Blair's tumultuous leadership, "The Blair Years "gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair Campbell--Blair's spokesman from 1994 to 2003, his press secretary, strategist, and closest confidant. It is a compelling chronicle of contemporary B... More

In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketballs most respected referees. 16-page b&w photo insert.Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before b... More

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. New Book... More

Dr. Cerminara examines how the famed psychic penetrated the "previous lives" of his subjects and performed cures and prophecies that made him a notable clairvoyant. Connecting issues such as reincarnation, spiritual healing, past life regression, hypnosis, karma and parapsychology, Cayce's work is p... More