Biography & autobiography / Personal Memoirs

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin

by Frank Bailey, Ken Morris & Jeanne Devon – Howard Books (April 05, 2011)

This explosive, up-close view of Sarah Palin comes from an inner-circle confidant who shares surprising information about how Sarah dealt with staff and perceived ?enemies,? and the discrepancy between what...

An American Odyssey

by Bob Mathias & Robert Mendes – Sports Publishing (August 01, 2012)

Bob Mathias is a true 20th-century American hero. The youngest man ever to win the Olympic decathlon gold medal, and the only American ever to win it twice, Mathias was also a movie star, U.S. Marine, writer,...

Zen Encounters with Loneliness

by Terrance Keenan – Wisdom Publications (December 23, 2014)

Embark on a poignant and sometimes comic journey through Zen, poetry, and the transformative, personal practice of writing.

In Zen Encounters with Loneliness Terrance Keenan weaves together poetry, memoir, and...

My Misspent Youth

by Meghan Daum – Picador (December 22, 2014)

My Misspent Youth is an incisive collection that marked the start of a new millennium and became a cult classic, from the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed and the author of The Unspeakable

An essayist...

Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman To Ski Solo Across The Southern Ice

by Felicity Aston – Counterpoint (October 14, 2014)

In the whirling noise of our advancing technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never out-of-touch with the barrage of electronic data and information.

Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took...

Starve the Vulture: A Memoir

by Jason Carney – Kaylie Jones Books (December 15, 2014)

A stirring story of criminality, drug addiction, recovery, and unlikely fame.

"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age

by Anthony Slide & Jim Moore – Columbia University Press (November 25, 2014)

Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner...

White Dresses

by Mary Pflum Peterson – William Morrow Paperbacks (September 15, 2015)

In this riveting, poignant memoir of  three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle...

The Carry Home

by Gary Ferguson – Counterpoint (October 20, 2014)

The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience. He trekked 500 miles through Yellowstone to write Walking Down the Wild and spent a season in the field at a wilderness therapy program...

The Book of Luke

by Luther Campbell – Amistad (August 04, 2015)

Born in Miami's notorious Liberty City, Luther Campbell witnessed poverty, despair, and crime firsthand. His uncle Ricky did not want him trapped by the "invisible chains" of systemic racism, so Ricky schooled...

Rockers and Rollers: A Full-Throttle Memoir

by Brian Johnson – HarperCollins e-books (May 24, 2011)

From PinkCadillac to Low Rider to Little Red Corvette, rock music hasalways had a racy love affair with cars. And AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson isnot only a rock legend, second-to-none at infusing razor-sharp...

Fishing Stories

by Nick Lyons & Mari Lyons – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

All fishermen who have fished for a lifetime have baskets of great stories and reminiscences about the sport they love. Nick Lyons?s new collection is chock-full of them. From fishing a small Catskill creek...

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

by Viv Albertine – Thomas Dunne Books (November 24, 2014)

A feminist musician icon, Viv Albertine reveals the rocking, uncompromising story of her life on the front lines at the birth of the British punk movement and beyond in this exciting, humorous, and inspiring...

A Modern Marriage: A Memoir

by Christy Kidd & Mark Kidd – Gallery Books (November 18, 2014)

In this candid memoir about a marriage that risked everything to emerge stronger than ever, one couple takes us outside the bounds of monogamy and into one of the most fascinating and secretive subcultures in...

This River: A Memoir

by James Brown – Counterpoint (March 10, 2011)

Award-winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where Brown left off in his first...

Watch Me: A Memoir

by Anjelica Huston – Scribner (November 11, 2014)

Academy Award-winning actress Huston?s ?tireless fascination with the world is thrilling?? (Elle), and Watch Me is an ?elegant and entertaining? (Chicago Tribune) account of her seventeen-year love affair with...

The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5-Book Bundle: The Firebrand / Mrs. Simcoe's Diary / The Scalpel, the Sword / The Men of the Last Frontier / Pilgrim

by William Kilbourn, Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, Mary Quayle Innis & Sydney Gordon et al. – Dundurn (March 14, 2014)

Five books in the Voyageur Classics series celebrate the best in Canadian biographical letters, with two titles from the great Grey Owl, as well as books by or about Elizabeth Simcoe, Dr. Norman Bethune, and...

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

by Laura M. Flynn – Counterpoint (March 01, 2009)

When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn’t long, however, before Sally’s fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed...

Angels by the River: A Memoir

by James Gustave Speth – Chelsea Green Publishing (October 21, 2014)

Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change

In Angels by the River, James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one...

But We All Shine On: The Remarkable Orphans of Burbank Children's Home

by Paolo Hewitt – Jessica Kingsley Publishers (October 21, 2014)

After a childhood spent in care at Burbank Children's Home, Paolo Hewitt embarks upon a personal journey as an adult to discover whatever happened to his close childhood friends. He reveals their stories - from...

A Leg to Stand On: An Amputee's Walk into Motherhood

by Colleen Haggerty – She Writes Press (November 11, 2014)

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality-and no one would have blamed her...

Singing to A Bulldog

by Anson Williams – Reader's Digest (November 11, 2014)

Singing to a Bulldog presents the practical and motivational lessons Anson Williams, an accomplished actor, director, singer and producer gleaned from his life experience and words of wisdom from the head janitor...

The Woman I Wanted to Be

by Diane Von Furstenberg – Simon & Schuster (October 01, 2014)

One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business:...

Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life

by Jie Li – Columbia University Press (November 18, 2014)

In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants...

American Wife

by Taya Kyle & Jim Defelice – William Morrow (May 04, 2015)

The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose...

There Was and There Was Not

by Meline Toumani – Metropolitan Books (November 03, 2014)

A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use?and abuse?our personal histories

Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian...

Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa

by Ufrieda Ho – Ohio University Press (July 04, 2012)

Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese...

Daring to Date Again: A Memoir

by Ann Anderson Evans – She Writes Press (November 11, 2014)

Ann has two kids, two careers, two divorces, a pile of friends and sings soprano in the church choir. But after twelve years single, she is sick of celibacy. She's been through enough to know that marriage is...

1990: Russians Remember a Turning Point

by Irina Prokhorova – MacLehose Press (August 12, 2014)

Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This...

A Shot of Hope

by Zack Peter – Carrel Books (October 21, 2014)

Autism shakes up your world. It has changed my life and I wasn?t even the one diagnosed with it. My brother?s name is Ethan Wolfgang, but we call him Deets. He is one of the greatest gifts my family has ever...

What I Learned When I Almost Died

by Chris Licht – Simon & Schuster (May 24, 2011)

What do you learn when your brain goes pop?

Chris Licht had always been ambitious. When he was only nine years old, he tracked down an NBC correspondent while on vacation to solicit advice for a career in television....

British Voices: From the Irish War of Independence 1918 - 1921 - the words of British Servicemen Who Were There

by William Sheehan – The Collins Press (March 14, 2007)

?Ireland's War of Independence generated a wealth of published material but very little from a British perspective. Yet many British servicemen left accounts of their time in Ireland from 1918 to 1921. They...

Winners Dream

by Bill McDermott & Joanne Gordon – Simon & Schuster (September 10, 2014)

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today?s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.

In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott?the CEO of the world?s largest business...

Remembering my Miss Vicki

by Thomas Crochetiere – eBookIt.com (April 24, 2011)

This is a husband's heartfelt story about his wife and their journey during the last year of their life together. You will learn firsthand, how they embraced some of the most memorable and cherished moments...

From This Moment On

by Shania Twain – Atria Books (May 03, 2011)

Now in paperback from superstar Shania Twain, a poignant, heartfelt, and beautifully told account of her hard-scrabble childhood, rise to worldwide fame, and recent personal tragedies.

The world may know Shania...

I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else

by Danny Aiello – Gallery Books (October 14, 2014)

Beloved stage and screen actor Danny Aiello?s big-hearted memoir reveals a man of passion, integrity, and guts?and lays bare one of the most unlikely success stories ever told.

Danny Aiello admits that he backed...

Finding Dad: From "Love Child" to Daughter

by Kara Sundlun – Behler Publications (October 27, 2014)

73-year-old, war-hero-business tycoon-politician and a Midwestern high school girl survive the scrutiny of spotlights, and build a loving father-daughter relationship.

Saving Baby

by Jo Anne Normile & Lawrence Lindner – St. Martin's Press (October 20, 2014)

"If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." --Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty

Jo Anne Normile was not supposed to keep the foal, an...

Behind the Gates of Gomorrah

by Stephen Seager – Gallery Books (September 16, 2014)

A darker twist on Orange is the New Black, this true insider's account delivers an eye-opening look into the nation?s largest state-run forensic hospital, a facility that houses the real-life Hannibal Lecters...

The Mensch Handbook

by Max Gross – Skyhorse (October 21, 2014)

For years after college, Max Gross was a schlubby ne'er-do-well sporting an unwieldy Jewfro. He fought off double-chins and man-boobs. His style of dress was reminiscent of a stoned urban slacker. Young Max...

An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir

by Robert Lipsyte – HarperCollins e-books (May 03, 2011)

Celebrated sports journalist Robert Lipsyte—the New York Times’ longtime lead sports columnist—mines pure gold from his long and very eventful career to bring readers a memoir like no other. An enthralling...

Where Have I Been All My Life?: A Journey Toward Love and Wholeness

by Cheryl Rice – She Writes Press (October 07, 2014)

Where Have I Been All My Life? is a compelling memoir recounting one woman's journey through grief and a profound feeling of unworthiness to wholeness and healing. It begins with the chillingly sudden death...

Terra Incognita: A Psychoanalyst Explores the Human Soul

by Joseph Isaac Abrahams – UPA (September 07, 2014)

Terra Incognita provides an autobiographical account of Joseph Abrahams’ 75-year career as a psychoanalyst with extensive scientific data, life-altering discoveries, and insightful conclusions. Each chapter...

Weightless: My Life as a Fat Man and How I Escaped

by Gregg McBride & Joy Bauer – Central Recovery Press (August 18, 2014)

The inspiring true story of one man’s triumph in his lifelong struggle with his weight.

When Fraser Met Billy

by Louise Booth – Atria Books (September 23, 2014)

In the spirit of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey comes a mother?s touching, true account of how a rescue cat named Billy transformed her autistic boy?s life.

Louise Booth and her husband had always dreamed of...

Shorts: Stories about Alcohol, Asperger Syndrome, and God

by Tessie Regan – Jessica Kingsley Publishers (September 21, 2014)

Blunt, witty and honest, Tess Regan's collection of short stories, poems and illustrations tell a personal tale of alcoholism, Asperger's syndrome and an unusual spiritual journey. They will be invaluable reading...

Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life

by Cynthia Kim – Jessica Kingsley Publishers (September 21, 2014)

Based on research recorded in her popular blog, Cynthia Kim's humorous, insider guide to Asperger Syndrome (ASD) explores the 'why' of ASD traits. Full of personal anecdotes, Kim explores how her perspective...

Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians

by Linda Gray Sexton – Counterpoint (September 09, 2014)

The Sexton family's long love affair with the Dalmatian began in Linda's childhood. There, on a snowy morning in the family home just outside Boston, LInda heard a whimpering coming from the basement. She discovered...

Hyena

by Jude Angelini – Gallery Books (September 23, 2014)

Hyena is a collection of autobiographical stories by Jude Angelini, which takes the reader on his journey of heartbreak, depravity, and hilarity, deftly moving between his adult life and his childhood growing...

The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman

by William T. Sherman – HarperTorch (September 30, 2014)

First published in 1875, General William T. Sherman’s memoir was one of the first from the Civil War, and was offered to the public because, as Sherman wrote in his dedication, “no satisfactory history”...