Browsing the "Biography & Autobiography" category: 2536 books
The newest bestseller from biographer Andrew Morton, about the life of celebrity performer Madonna. Morton is the New York Times bestselling author of Diana, Princess of Wales and Monica's Story. ...more »
ISBN: 0312703309 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 328K
This in-depth biography on the innovative Latin blues-rock guitarist, Carlos Santana will follow his illustrious career from the late 1960's to the present. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276338 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 262K
No elite military commando unit since the darkest days of Korea and Vietnam has a more storied history than the U.S. Navy SEALs, a stealth fighting force legendary for its abilities to wage covert war on sea, air, and land. Now former SEAL Command Ma ...more »
ISBN: 0060085088 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 400K
Dr. Jones is a leading figure in the gospel music industry. He offers a revealing look at his career and friendships with other celebrities. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276427 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 205K
MINOOK is an adventure memoir and survival tale; this is the personal narrarive of Norma Cobb, who in 1973 became the last woman to homestead in the Alaskan wilderness. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276192 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 424K
Virtually no writer has so influenced American thought as Ralph Waldo Emerson--called the heart and soul of Transcendentalism. Here renowned Emerson scholar Joel Myerson distills the essential core of this great thinker's vast letter-writing endeavor ...more »
ISBN: 0231500327 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Dec 1997 / File Size: 877K
A delightful, from-the-media-trenches account of the day-to-day gossip wrangling and campaign combat that occurred during Hillary's run for the U. S. Senate. ...more »
ISBN: 0312702949 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 416K
ISBN: 0374701466 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 1096K
"PerfectBound e-book extra: My Head and My Heart (Jefferson's Letter to Maria Cosway; Paris, October 12, 1786) Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinx-like puzzles of his character -- famous champion of freedom yet lifelong s ...more »
ISBN: 0060084871 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 392K
A hospice volunteer shares her fears and the insights she learns in providing help and companionship to dying patients. She also shares what she learns about hope and comfort in the face of death. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276311 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 283K
E-book exclusive special feature: The first bilingual e-book! Enjoy paragraph-by-paragraph hyperlinks between the English and Spanish texts within this PerfectBound e-book. A daring memoir of love, magic, adventure, and miracles, Victor Villase±or's ...more »
ISBN: 0060086866 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 1299K
In the tradition of DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF comes a collection of life wisdom--with a "cookie" theme. ...more »
ISBN: 0312702876 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 685K
*Talk Stories* is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for *The New Yorker's* "Talk of the Town", composed during the years after she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. It is also a record of Kincaid's ...more »
ISBN: 0374700788 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 294K
Charles Darwin's great-great grandson, a highly successful Hollywood screenwriter, travels to Dayton, Tennessee. In 1925 this is where The Scopes Trial, the most famous trial of its day, put the teaching of evolution in schools in the dock, and each ...more »
ISBN: 0312702760 / St Martins / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 349K
Despite an abundance of literature on Richard Nixon, the man behind the most spectacular crash-and-burn career of modern political history has remained an enigma. What lay behind his obsessive hunger for power and control, his attacks against enemies ...more »
ISBN: 0231500459 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Apr 1999 / File Size: 426K
The story behind the man behind seven NBA championships Phil Jackson led Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles before joining the Los Angeles Lakers for the 1999-2000 season. Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey provides a ...more »
ISBN: 0071400028 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 499K
Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Intellectually, Ingrid was influenced by Pablo Neruda and other Latin ...more »
ISBN: 0060084855 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 326K
A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers. ...more »
ISBN: 0312264585 / St Martins / Pub Date: Mar 1999 / File Size: 396K
As a writer, businessman and magistrate, Henry Fielding was in a singular position to textualize eighteenth-century English cultural conditions and materially to author the text of his society. Not only did he extol employment, he co-owned an empl ...more »
ISBN: 0312299648 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 2380K
Recknagel's heart-wrenching and beautifully told story of how she saved her utterly damaged nephew from her own family's insanity and abuse. ...more »
ISBN: 0312702604 / St Martins / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 390K
Described as "an emotional genius" for her fiction, Ann Hood gives us her first nonfiction book, a poignant account of the search for miracles and transcendence during times of great need. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276389 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 742K
A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict ...more »
ISBN: 0374702527 / FSG / Pub Date: May 2002 / File Size: 313K
Born and raised in Harlem, Gloria Lynne lied about her age and won the Apollo Amateur Hour at the age of fifteen. Launched into a career that would span four decades, I Wish You Love is the stoty of roller coaster trouble filled life, the true story ...more »
ISBN: 0312700830 / St Martins / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 337K
Young Priscilla Buckley, member of the well-known and wealthy Buckley family, went to work for the United Press as a copy girl in 1944, fresh out of Smith. In the next two years she moved up to news writer, taking news off the wire and recasting it ...more »
ISBN: 0312701365 / St Martins / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 613K
A poet, novelist, and professor of English recounts her childhood in communist Romania and her coming of age in Western Europe and the United States. ...more »
ISBN: 0231500440 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1171K
