Biography & Memoir

“My Inventions” is a candid and illuminating autobiography of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important technological innovators of the modern industrial age. Famous for the radio, robotics, and wireless energy, Tesla quickly gained international notoriety...

This volume presents one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of writings by Nikola Tesla, a founding figure of the modern electrical power industry and long-time rival of Thomas Edison. Included is Tesla's autobiography, My Inventions, and...

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion...

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his...

(Available after 3-20 days) The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.   Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and...

(Available after 3-20 days) Remembered primarily as an eccentric and deluded billionaire, Howard Hughes was once America's golden boy, a celebrated aviator and Hollywood legend who romanced hundreds of beautiful women. The scope of his life made him one...

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.   The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of...

“In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St. Domingue—it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.” These are Toussaint Louverture’s last words before being taken to...

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to fly solo across the Pacific. Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.   Number of...

"An instant classic." —Arianna Huffington"Will inspire people from across the political spectrum." —Jonathan HaidtLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good...

(Available after 3-20 days)First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the...

New York Times Bestseller!A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself --...

(Available after 3-30 days) Beloved actress and New York Times best-selling author Valerie Bertinelli returns with a heartfelt look at turning sixty, the futility of finding happiness in numbers on a scale, learning to love herself the way she is today,...

(Available after February 30th, 2022) In this intimate memoir, actress and musician Jamie Lynn Spears opens up for the first time, telling her unfiltered story on her own terms. You’ve read the headlines, but you don’t know Jamie Lynn Spears. The world...

A decades-long puzzle: Who betrayed the Franks to the Nazis in 1944, after two years hiding in an attic, behind a bookcase, in the heart of occupied Amsterdam? Enter a driven, former FBI agent and a team of historians, profilers, analysts and...

(Available after May 30th, 2022) The TV favourite and star of The Repair Shop opens up about his troubled youth and experiences of racism, and how he turned his life around to become a leading restorer and national treasure in this warm, inspirational...

“Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive, a memoir of the Holocaust, a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an unforgettable family chronicle, written in lucid prose by a truly remarkable woman about her life from Hungary to...

A stunning book from Amanda Owen - shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5’s Our Yorkshire Farm - that brings her world to life in glorious colour.In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda shares funny and charming stories...

(Available after March 30th, 2022)'A beautiful, inspiring book that will change the way you think about exercise. I only wish it had existed when I was younger.' - Bryony GordonIf you are the girl, the woman who feels like she is never enough, that she...

Swapping his usual highly unusual journalistic stamping grounds for the confines of his own home, the bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This delivers a hilarious, witty and frank account of a year of family life amidst the pandemic, sharing its...