Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America’s boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and…

Small Town Charm With Deadly Consequences “In her new true crime book, and the second in her original series, acclaimed…

LOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed…

Patrice Gopo grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, the child of Jamaican immigrants who had little experience being black in America.…

“If you love Sherlock Holmes, you’ll love this book…the best account of Baker Street mania ever written.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington PostWinner…

“Electrifying” (Library Journal): In this NPR Best Book of 2018, a Black feminist hailed as “one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African American thinkers” (Essence) explores Black women’s anger and its power to change society. A “funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed” memoir (The New Republic).

Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first!…

This inspiring memoir documents the coming-of-age of a young girl living aboard her father’s 45-foot sailboat — and enduring his abuse. On a nautical journey around the world, Leslie must navigate dangerous tensions and find power within herself.

Why would a father murder the mother of his four children? A New York Times bestselling author investigates the shocking truth behind the Elizabeth DeCaro case in a riveting page-turner that “grabs you by the throat and never lets go” (New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen).

An international bestseller: When Joan Anderson traveled to Cape Cod for a year of solitude, she met vivacious Joan Erikson — and found extraordinary friendship, boundless wisdom, and a fresh perspective on life. “Every encounter with [Erikson] is as much a treat as it was for Anderson” (Publishers Weekly).