During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Patricia Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Wilson, AndrewSummary: - Author:McNamara, CraigSummary:
Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of...
- Author:Gabriel, BrigitteSummary:
Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. In 1975 she was ten years old and living in Southern Lebanon when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against the Lebanese...
- Author:Taylor, SylviaSummary:
A rich and diverse tapestry weaving together the many voices, narratives, skills, and talents of women up and down the coastal Pacific Northwest who devote their lives and careers to the sea. Beckoned by the Sea celebrates coastal women...
- Author:Obama, MichelleSummary:
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and...
- Author:Stein, AbbySummary:
Abby Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She made a personal exodus from ultra-...
- Author:Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, Obstfeld, RaymondSummary:
Like many kids, Kareem, known then as Lew Alcindor, struggled to fit in, please a strict father, and deal with severe shyness. Unlike most, he had to grapple with a growth spurt that shot him up taller than everyone else. Also, the...
- Author:Haff, Stephen, Sierra, SarahSummary:
At an after-school program, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids push together tables piled high with books so they can reimagine Don Quixote, the story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain who traveled around trying to right the...
- Author:Krawec, PattySummary:
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all 'home.'...
- Author:Yalom, Irvin D.Summary:
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. Not simply a man's life story, this is Yalom's...
- Author:Nutt, Amy EllisSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and...
- Author:Straczynski, J. MichaelSummary:
With an introduction by Neil Gaiman! In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to...
- Author:Popoff, MartinSummary:
"MotOrhead, remember me now, MotOrhead, alright!" Lemmy, Phil, Fast Eddie and the Rise of MotOrhead is the first book to celebrate the classic-era MotOrhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and Phil...
- Author:Stroh, FrancesSummary:
Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company was the largest private beer fortune in America. But when Detroit's economy collapsed, the Stroh family found their wealth and legacy disappearing. They could not...
- Author:Swafford, JanSummary:
Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living,...
- Author:Goldberg, MyrnaSummary:
In this first Azrieli Foundation anthology, twenty-five women reflect on their experiences of survival – from the heart-stopping fears of hiding to the extreme risks of “passing” as non-Jews, and from the terrors of the Nazi camps to...
- Author:Smith, B.Summary:
Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 64 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She's not alone. Every 67 seconds...
- Author:Fung, AmySummary:
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a...
- Author:Town, FloridaSummary:
Sixty years ago, Britannia was the home of the largest copper mine in the British Empire, where several thousand people lived in its two main communities; the Beach and the Townsite. Although it was a scant 50 km. from Vancouver, it was...
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