Biography & Memoir

“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef’s Egyptian bookstore—the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failure and success are often lovers, the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHow can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with...

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' -- Stylist 'A beautiful timely and humane book' -- Alain de Botton 'Most failures can teach us something meaningful about...

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted upRequired to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy.More than fifteen years after its premiere, Grey’s Anatomy remains one of the most beloved dramas on television and ABC's most important...

This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gifts. The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all...

Hilarious and heartwarming, this memoir is the story of growing up in a strange land where you don't speak the language, everyone smells like milk, and to top it off, the Ayatollah wants you and your family deadIn the tradition of Nancy Mitford's The...

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life...

“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...

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 --...