Biography

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfect ingredients for a happy and funny life."-Amy Poehler...

This definitive handbook, written by one of the world's leading authorities on C.S. Lewis, is a meticulous, informative and enjoyable resource for study and general reference. It includes: A chronology...

In her mid-twenties, rudderless and unsure, Michelle moved into her step- great-grandmother Shan-Yi's Sydney apartment just after her passing. Shan-Yi had been part of Michelle's family since long before she...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz. Within thirty minutes,...

p>From his humble beginnings on em>The Mike Walsh Show/em> as the snake boy of St Ives , Craig Bennett really has seen, done and reported on it all./p>p>In this delightfully...

An uplifting memoir about a mother's journey with cancer, the solace of community and the power of food to bring people together. When Alison, a mother of five school-aged children,...

A SENSATIONAL TRUE AUSTRALIAN 'WHODUNNIT' It's 1964 when a crazed firebug begins torching properties in the once tranquil Hamilton Valley in NSW Australia. Night after night, the wail of sirens...

A man. A game. A life. A shambles. In this brutally honest, hilarious and forensic examination of both himself and the game he loves, Greg Bruce tells the story of...

You Will Find Your People is a narrative work of self-development that uncovers the complex, frightening, and mystical world of friendship. Author Lane Moore takes readers on a journey that...

A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago's North and South SidesAs a multiracial household in Chicago's North Side community of Rogers...

Breaking Free is more than just a story of survival. It is a lesson. A reminder that our past does not define us, and that the cultural barriers that oppress...

Tracing the shifts and moods of four seasons along Scotland's River Tweed, Andrew Douglas-Home weaves a story of a close relationship with nature and one of its most iconic denizens;...

'It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors... But there...

An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times . Featuring 100 color photographs, Growing Up Underground takes readers...

When Natasha Fennell's mother was diagnosed with a progressive illness, she wasn't ready to do deal with the inevitability of what this would bring. Sitting outside the hospital after visiting...

It's not easy being kind of famous. Fortune. Younger men. Exclusive invites. Being mistaken for different actresses who are slightly prettier and more famous than you. It's all part of...

From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found...

" In the old days, the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal. Today things are very different. I cannot...

The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and...

I want to have slow sex, work out what to do with a penis, and experience the fourteen different types of female orgasm.In her mid-thirties, Lucy-Anne Holmes still felt like...

Jane Cornelius lived and worked in Bali, until she met and fell in love with the wrong man, who abandoned her in the UK, leaving her five months' pregnant and...

In her first book, There's A Bear In There , Merridy Eastman led us into the forbidden world of a Sydney brothel where she once worked as a nervous receptionist....

This is more than just a sports book, although the author is an accomplished Test cricketer. Justin Langer was a member of one of Australia's greatest sporting teams for nearly...

By the bestselling author of A YEAR IN THE MERDE MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES SOLD OF A YEAR IN THE MERDE IN EUROPE! Merde is hot. Merde hot! French women...

The Fascinating and Inspiring True-Life Story of One of America's Most Successful Clairvoyants! 'PSYCHIC, MEDIUM, CLAIRVOYANT, CHANNEL-these are all words used to describe Sylvia Browne's unique power. I would prefer...

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen....

Michael and Helen Whelan believed that life after the birth of their first child would be the most amazing adventure. But at 14 months of age, their precious son Charlie's...

From acclaimed literary talent and New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Harrison comes a collection of provocative and illuminating essays. In True Crimes, conventional ideas of love, loss, forgiveness, and...

As a poet and novelist in nineteenth-century Scotland, George MacDonald became an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer whose work has inspired such prominent writers and artists as C. S. Lewis...

For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within... Despite what appeared to be a glamorous...

This comprehensive biography of the great 19th-century novelist combines extensive research and documentation, including much new speculation on the nature of his affair with Ellen Ternan, with imaginative reconstruction of...

This is the inspiring account of a family s struggle to break into their son's autistic world - and how a dog made the real difference. Dale was still a...

Anthony Trollope was a giant of Victorian letters whose works are still read avidly today. Now, in what is surely the definitive biography, the world's leading expert on Trollope provides...

Somerville and Ross were two extraordinary Irish writers. Cousins and products of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy world, they reacted both with and against their environment to present in their books a...

James Cameron's Titanic chronicles the cinematic re-creation of the most legendary ocean disaster of all time as seen through the eyes of a master storyteller. Set against the ship's fateful...

Stand-up comedian Luisa Omielan's story of how she turned her life around with one simple mantra- What Would Beyonce Do?! You know when you find yourself approaching thirty and your...

When his cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions Kevin Bloom had been asking as a journalist about the troubling political and social changes in this country...

Accelerated Resolution Therapy-or ART for short-may be one of the most important therapies you may not know about. This book weaves information about the therapy with the Developer, Laney Rosenzweig's...

Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced...

In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and...