Posts Tagged ‘biography’
Love Warrior
#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah’s Book Club 2016 Selection “Riveting…a worthy investment…this book has real wisdom.” —New York Times Book Review “A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who’s ever married or plans to marry should really give it a read.” — Chicago Tribune “Provocative… I adore…
Read MoreDown and Out in Paris and London
An empty purse leads an English writer to find lodgings in the slums of two great cities
Read MoreFreedom
In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus…
Read MoreThe Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children’s imagination,…
Read MoreJustin Trudeau Common Ground
The national bestseller Justin Trudeau has spent his life in the public eye. From the moment he was born, the first son of an iconic prime minister and his young wife, Canadians have witnessed the highs and the lows, sharing in his successes and mourning with him during tragic times. But few beyond Justin’s closest…
Read MoreA Moveable Feast
In a vibrant study of Paris in the 1920s, Hemingway records his own five years in the French city, describing his creative struggles and sharing portraits of such fellow expatriates as Fitzgerald, Pound, and Stein. Reprint.
Read MoreFall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
A follow-up to its bestselling predecessor, The Reason I Jump opens an extraordinary, rare window into the mind and world of an autistic, non-verbal person–now coping with a young man’s life. Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump as a 13-year-old boy with severe autism, giving us all insight into a world never before open…
Read MoreA Paris all of Your Own
While all of the women writers featured here have written books connected to Paris, their personal stories of the city are wildly different. These Parisian memoirs range from laugh-out-loud funny to wistfully romantic to thoughtfully sombre and reflective. Perfect for armchair travellers and veterans of Parisian pilgrimages alike, readers will delight in these brand-new tales…
Read MoreThe Reason I Jump
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida’s astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and translated by his wife, KA Yoshida.…
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