Posts Tagged ‘biography’
When you find out the world is against you
The bestselling author of #1 Canadian and New York Times bestseller Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar returns with a deeper and even funnier new collection of essays about the pleasures and perils of living in Kelly Oxford’s head. Kelly Oxford likes to blow up the Internet. Whether it is with the kind of…
Read MoreElon Musk
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.” Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision…
Read MoreHow to be a Bawse
From actress, comedian, and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh (aka Superwoman) comes the definitive guide to being a BAWSE–a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they’ve fought through it all and made it out the other side. Told in her hilarious, bold voice that’s inspired over 9 million fans,…
Read MoreCash
He was the “Man in Black,” a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and…
Read MoreEverything Is Perfect When You’re A Liar
“The Funniest Memoir You’ll Ever Read”* from one of the “Funniest People on Twitter”** “Will make you love her even more than you probably already do. . . . Truly hilarious, with a wonderful sense of sarcasm, intelligence and a healthy dose of irony mixed in. . . . I couldn’t put this book down–you…
Read MoreYou’ll Grow Out of It
Introducing Jessi Klein, a Nora Ephron for a new generation. Both a tomboy and a late bloomer, she grew up always feeling like more of an observer than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. YOU’LL GROW OUT OF IT is a funny and incisive collection of real life stories in which Klein explores…
Read MoreThey Left Us Everything
A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents–first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother–author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their knees with conflicted feelings of grief and…
Read MoreThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Soon to be an HBO� Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells–taken without her knowledge–became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first…
Read MoreCold War Warrior
Lawrence Fox was born and raised in Midland, Ontario and enlisted in the RCAF in 1952. Distinguished by his outstanding marksmanship from the beginning of his military career, he was selected immediately as a candidate for dangerous espionage work and formally recruited by MI-6 in 1956. He is pictured at age nineteen, two years before…
Read MoreOn Duty With The Queen
In this wonderful and honest book, former press secretary to the royal family Dickie Arbiter reveals the inner-workings of everyday life in side Buckingham Palace, and what it’s really like to be on duty with the Queen. With four decades of experience covering royalty as a journalist and as one of Her Majesty’s press secretaries,…
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