Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

The creative force behind Blackberry Farm, Tennessee’s award-winning farm-to-table resort, reveals how she found herself only after losing everything in…

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s…

In this Edgar Award–nominated read, an Arikara woman searches for answers after an oil worker’s mysterious disappearance on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. “A great true crime story… full of twists and turns and surprising choices” (Los Angeles Times).

Almost everyone with a pulse fears death, but not everyone fears life. With crippling social anxiety, I feared both. But…

As a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas, host of Planet Green’s Renovation Nation, developed…

“Gripping” (The New York Times Book Review): When his son disappeared in a Costa Rican rain forest, Roman Dial set out to uncover the truth — a journey that would take years. “A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out” (Jon Krakauer).

Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a former vice president at…

In 1927, Charley Braggs arrived home to a horrifying scene: Two of his children were dead — and according to his wife, Nannie, the culprit was food poisoning. But Charley knew better than to believe her… Meet the notorious real-life killer known as the Giggling Granny in this haunting true crime tale.

While vividly evoking Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William Burroughs, this celebrated Beat Generation biography focuses on Lew…

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of…