Book: The Glass Castle – A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle.
Author: Jeannette Walls
Book Description: Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....
Book: Swallow the Ocean – A Memoir by Laura M. Flynn
Swallow the Ocean.
Author: Laura M. Flynn
A compelling true story, written by Laura Flynn about the time of her childhood, her family and the deep...
Townie: A Memoir
Townie: A Memoir
Author: Andre Dubus III
"An unforgettable book, Townie is a riveting and profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of...
Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir
Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir
Author: Doron Weber
"Immortal Bird is a searing account of a father’s struggle to save his remarkable son, a story of...
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Author: Robert K. Massie
A narrative biography of a fourteen years old German princess who traveled to Russia to become...
Saul Bass
Saul Bass
Author: Jennifer Bass, Pat Kirkham
"This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century,...
On Canaan’s Side: A Novel
On Canaan's Side: A Novel
Author: Sebastian Barry
Nearly seven decades of Lilly Bere's life told as narrative in the first person. "From the Great Depression...
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Award: 2011 Pulitzer Prizes
A fascinating, informative and well written "biography" of cancer by the...
On an Irish Island
On an Irish Island
Author: Robert Kanigel
"On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the...
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Author: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Mahadev H. Desai (Translator), Sissela Bok (Foreword)
"Mohandas K....
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson.
"Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family...
Hard Ground
Hard Ground
Author: Tom Waits, Michael O'Brien (Photography)
"In Hard Ground, O'Brien joins with renowned singer-songwriter Tom Waits, described by the New York Times as "the...
