Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

A story so sensual, so unconventional, and so shocking… it could only be true.After a series of life-changing and terrible…

“Erudite and devastating… Crawford’s writing is astonishing… Notes on a Silencing is a purposefully named, brutal and brilliant retort to the…

From the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA’s history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space…

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast†‘moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music…

How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the…

Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her…

A New York Times bestseller, this raw and powerful memoir traces the story of a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, including her mother’s shocking murder by her stepfather and its lasting impact on her writing. “Luminous and searing” (The Boston Globe).

In this New York Times bestseller, legendary actor and star of the acclaimed documentary Val shares the stories behind his…

During World War II, a Jewish woman — along with her husband and newborn — fled from the Warsaw Ghetto. This read is the published edition of her diary, in which she recorded their harrowing struggle to survive the Holocaust.

Laura Bradbury recounts the joys and challenges of restoring a 13th-century French wine cellar with her husband, Franck — all while raising their newborn daughter. A charming memoir!