Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

With over 2,500 five-star Goodreads ratings: A forensic anthropologist reveals how her career has shaped her understanding of life and death — and how she’s helped solve numerous crimes. “A perceptive study of a subject both deeply uncomfortable and uncommonly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly).

Jan Risher took the long way to get from Mississippi to Louisiana with stops in between in Slovakia, Mexico, China,…

Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it’s probably just a…

On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite’s El Capitan–to scale the wall without…

Harbour Ways is the sequel to Watery Ways, Valerie Poore’s first memoir about living on a barge in Rotterdam’s Oude…

In this account of her first year of living on a barge in Rotterdam’s Oude Haven, Valerie Poore’s overriding impression…

This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons society of…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk)…

A behind-the-scenes look at the egomaniacs, geniuses, and canny promoters who shaped the world of modern art and created the…

The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his ferocious twenty-year…