The island is shy and exuberant, savage and fair, bold yet self-effacing. It is a woman in heat, a man in despair, a blonde horse at sunset, a riot of fig trees, a flaking white salt bed, an arid garden of thyme and oregano, a hundred...
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Author:MacEwen, GwendolynSummary:
- Author:Nelson, WillieSummary:
The untold story of Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie, who, over the course of their lives together, supported each other through personal tragedies and triumphs and forged an unbreakable bond through their shared love of music...
- Author:Gottlieb, LoriSummary:
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking...
- Author:Evaristo, BernardineSummary:
Bernardine Evaristo shares an account of life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. It's a manifesto for anyone who has ever stood on the...
- Author:Virji, AyazSummary:
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear. In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved...
- Author:Maupin, ArmisteadSummary:
Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Maupin reflects on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, sharing his candid search for his "logical family," the people...
- Author:Akins, LaurenSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it...
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The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler's year of self-discovery-featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and...
- Author:Douglas, KirkSummary:
Kirk Douglas is a born storyteller, and in this engrossing memoir he shares delightful tales, favorite jokes, and hard-won insights as he looks back on his storied life and explores the mixed blessings of growing older.
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a...
- Author:Kravitz, LennySummary:
"I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow." Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny...
- Author:Bundchen, GiseleSummary:
The instant New York Times bestseller Supermodel and philanthropist Gisele BUndchen shares personal stories, insights, and photos to explore lessons that have helped shape her life. Gisele BUndchen's journey began in southern...
- Author:Fuller, AlexandraSummary:
Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Alexandra Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation.
- Author:Kindred, DaveSummary:
Jared Kindred left his home and family at eighteen, choosing to wander America on freight trains and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred...
- Author:Lewis, MattSummary:
"A sinister version of The Perfect Storm ... Thrilling." -Sunday Times (UK). For readers of The Perfect Storm, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and Into the Wild There's nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping...
- Author:Scovell, NellSummary:
Nell Scovell blows the doors off the male-dominated writers' room and offers a scathingly funny account of Hollywood's sexual politics.
- Author:Endo, HomareSummary:
150,000 innocents died in Changchun at the end of WW2 when Mao's Revolutionary Army laid siege. Japanese girl Homare Endo, then age 7, was traumatized but survived to devote her life to telling the world of the atrocity China now...
- Author:Garcia, Amanda YatesSummary:
Traditionally, Wiccans are initiated through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia's mother, a practicing witch herself, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was...
- Author:Jolly, B. DenhamSummary:
A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly's personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic...
- Author:Goldsmith, JackSummary:
As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by...