Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

“Masterful . . . The collaboration completes the Churchill portrait in a seamless manner, combining the detailed research, sharp analysis…

A New York Times bestseller with over 14,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In 1986, Christopher Knight left home for the woods of New England — and spent nearly 30 years there in complete isolation. “An extraordinary story about solitude, community, identity, and freedom” (The Guardian).

Hot Art traces Joshua Knelman’s five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft, where he uncovers a devious game…

A “compelling” account (Library Journal starred review) with over 2,600 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Napoleon Bonaparte still towers over modern European history. This New York Times bestselling biography offers “a fully human portrait of this larger-than-life figure” (The Wall Street Journal).

In this “astonishing… wonderfully welcome” (Publishers Weekly starred review) New York Times bestseller, a son and his dying mother form a makeshift book club to cope with the pain of illness. “Tender, moving, and honest” (Cecelia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You), with nearly 10,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

When Sam Amirante was a young lawyer just opening his practice, he had no idea his first client would be the vicious, infamous John Wayne Gacy. This shocking true story “will illuminate the case for anyone fascinated by the inner workings of a serial killer” (Publishers Weekly).

From the outside, Nancy Cooper’s life with her husband and children in a beautiful North Carolina town seemed perfect. But when her body was discovered one summer day, it would reveal the darkness beneath her marriage’s seemingly tranquil surface.

As “one of modern literature’s most creative minds” (Library Journal), Roald Dahl created beloved works like James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Discover the man behind the words with this “fair-minded and revealing” biography (The New York Times).

Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of…

Marcia L. Gates was an Army nurse and prisoner of war during WWII. As an “Angel of Bataan,” she spent…