Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

WEIGHT! He lost 17 lbs of it fifteen days?!Yes, he did! It’s the true story of how best-selling author Andrew…

How did Carl Panzram develop into one of the most terrifying killers in American history? This gripping read tells his chilling true story, from his harrowing childhood to his reign of terror.

“A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young…

An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2020The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,”…

The story of two siblings, two ‘illegitimate’ children bonded with love, ambiguous origins and a destiny determined to keep them…

A luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of…

Written between 1717 and 1790, and originally referred to by its author as simply Memoirs, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is considered…

It’s always somebody else’s kid–until it’s yours.When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, their…

A New York Times bestseller with nearly 3,500 five-star Goodreads ratings: The host of Food Network’s The Pioneer Woman shares stories about country living, marrying a cowboy, and more in a warmhearted memoir that’s “filled with candor and self-deprecating wit… A charmer” (People).

This #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection tells the remarkable true story of the Galvins, a mid-century American family with 10 sons — six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia. “A stunning, riveting chronicle” (Booklist) with nearly 30,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.