Biographies & Memoirs Books


Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with YouTwelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You
Best Price: $10.43
We have been studying this for the past few months slowly due to only meeting once a week. We...
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the WorldCod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Best Price: $5.99
An interesting perspective on not just the poor cod but of all of the great creatures in the sea...
Anything GoesAnything Goes
Best Price: $19.47
This autobiography makes him appear trite, petty and self-obsessed. Too bad since he's an...
In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and HealingIn an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Best Price: $8.00
This book tells the serious story of the tragedy and triumph shared by Bob Woodruff and his...
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadGhost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Best Price: $12.23
Thought provoking and insightful, this truly comes from the heart. It is difficult to imagine...


Survival In AuschwitzSurvival In Auschwitz
Best Price: $4.80
This book from bnpublishing contains serious multiple errors, sometimes five per page, that...
Man's Search For MeaningMan's Search For Meaning
Best Price: $2.76
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize...
Plan B: Further Thoughts on FaithPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Best Price: $4.19
I love Anne Lamott and this book is no exception. As always, she writes with honesty and humor...
If You're Happy and You Know It (Baby Board Books)If You're Happy and You Know It (Baby Board Books)
Best Price: $2.06
Was looking for the right books for the very little ones in the family, for Christmas. Saw this...
Stranger Than Fiction: True StoriesStranger Than Fiction: True Stories
Best Price: $7.48
Reading Chuck Palahniuk's collection of oddball 'strange-but-true' stories, articles written for...


Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to SeeCrashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
Best Price: $11.96
I really wanted to like this book, but Crashing Through turned into drudgery about half way...
The Liars' Club: A MemoirThe Liars' Club: A Memoir
Best Price: $5.00
Mary Karr's memoir winds all over the place, beautiful prose, but it's everywhere at once. I...
Drawing the Head and FigureDrawing the Head and Figure
Best Price: $6.50
I grew up reading and using Jack Hamm's "How to Draw Animals", like it was a bible. As...
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaZero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Best Price: $8.25
Not only has zero not always existed, numbers aren't quite as concrete as our math teachers...
Take This Bread: A Radical ConversionTake This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Best Price: $7.99
From the moment I began reading to the last page I was hooked. I think this is a book that every...

A Man Without a CountryA Man Without a Country
Best Price: $5.99
Not denying that KV was a giant of late 20th century American letters. This is like reading an...
EmbroideriesEmbroideries
Best Price: $5.61
I have read this book several times, it is the funniest Marja Satrapi wrote. If you are a female...
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
Best Price: $4.99
I saw this book as I was ready to leave at Barnes and Noble and the Title caught my eye- clearly...
Arnold: The Education of a BodybuilderArnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
Best Price: $7.91
Full of information on mental & physical training. Things even I would never have thought...
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and IdeasThe Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Best Price: $7.77
The format of this book is a little unusual, it's basically an abridged version of Gandhi's...

Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for TherapistsHandbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists
Best Price: $32.00
I have found this book to be an excellent resource and reference for any one in the...
The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source FamilyThe Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family
Best Price: $15.19
This book is most amazing. It has opened up a belief in me that there is some light on this...
Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of HopeStrong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope
Best Price: $12.29
Some people may "understand" chronic illness like they are watching news video of a...
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against LynchingIda: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Best Price: $20.45
In 1893, the "Chicago Inter-Ocean", a mainstream metro newspaper, commissioned 30 year...
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)
Best Price: $2.41
My husband(age 71)took this book with us to Hawaii. He couldn't put it down, which says a lot...

The Bishop's Daughter: A MemoirThe Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
Best Price: $17.13
"An unsparing portrait of a glamorous but elusive father and his daughter's search for the...
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds HistoryMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Best Price: $5.99
One (two actually since there are two volumes) of the best submissions about the Holocaust which...
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane ArbusHubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus
Best Price: $14.45
Greg Gibson has captured a moment in the slippy-slidey story of Times Square by ressurecting the...
The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone KnowingThe Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing
Best Price: $13.45
In 1988, Forbes magazine's annual list of America's most wealthy listed Charles F Feeney as the...
Road Map to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years With Down SyndromeRoad Map to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years With Down Syndrome
Best Price: $7.60
If you are an expectant mother of a child diagnosed with Down syndrome, or the new mother of a...

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a TimeLove Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Best Price: $6.94
It was 1988 and I was too young to know better. I picked up my girl from her pantyhose job at...
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and EmperorsA Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
Best Price: $7.07
As an avid reader of historical novels I bought this book out of curiosity and I found it to be...
My Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other Animals
Best Price: $2.99
All of Gerald Durell's writings are terrific, but the ones about his family are truly...
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick WintersBeyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Best Price: $13.94
Major Winters has written not only a fabulous memoir of his role as company commander of Easy...
Confessions of a Serial NovelistConfessions of a Serial Novelist
Best Price: $7.19
I can't remember when I have enjoyed a CD more than I enjoyed this one. Laughing out loud is so...

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual WorkplaceMaverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Best Price: $7.53
I have been strugling about how to have an organization or a corporation that are at the same...
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldThe Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Best Price: $6.95
A.J. Jacobs is a crazy guy. Crazy in an amusing and friendly way. Before reading this book, I...
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. ThompsonGonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
Best Price: $13.35
This book presents Hunter Thompson, the good and the bad. Everything in this guy's life was...
The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient WisdomThe Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
Best Price: $6.95
I have read a number of Coelho's books now and I still think this one is the best (with the...
Lucky: A MemoirLucky: A Memoir
Best Price: $4.75
Lovely Bones led me to this book. I really didn't want to read a book about rape, but I'm glad...

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest PeaksNo Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Best Price: $7.88
Excellent. Well written and takes you to the summit of some of the world's nost inhospitable places.
Inside InsideInside Inside
Best Price: $13.97
I bought this book for my sister as a Christmas gift. Not only did I get the expected reaction...
Secrets of the Monarch: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Living a Better LifeSecrets of the Monarch: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Living a Better Life
Best Price: $5.75
Just as great as the books before, Allison Dubois book is heart warming. I loved every minute of...
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)
Best Price: $11.70
Simply amazing book. The depth of research and objective look into WD's personality is an...
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IINo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Best Price: $4.65
Are there many Roosevelt lovers out there who are under 70? I'm one of them, but I can't for the...

The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary InstituteThe Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute
Best Price: $6.42
Ruhlman tries very hard to be neither a culinary student nor a journalist, so he ends up being a...
Teacher Man: A MemoirTeacher Man: A Memoir
Best Price: $2.75
I only picked up this book one day when I was bored at work and a co-worker lent it to me. After...
My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal StoryMy Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
Best Price: $15.65
This is a book about a living hero and yet he is humble. this book should be read by all, only...
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract KillerThe Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
Best Price: $8.43
A Book that is superbly written. Each page engrosses you more which has you not only trying to...
Summer at TiffanySummer at Tiffany
Best Price: $7.47
I absolutely loved this book. I read it and have now recommended it to my book club so we will...

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and AmericaCan't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
Best Price: $13.50
Although I am not a huge Beatles fan, I found this book rather interesting in the detail that...
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War IIQuartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
Best Price: $8.97
George MacDonald Fraser, who has written many successful fiction books based on well researched...
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Best Price: $3.53
I am not an accomplished reader so it has to really hold my attention to finish a book. This...
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady RochfordJane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Best Price: $14.49
I enjoyed Ms. Fox's writing style. She does a good job of converting non-fictional material...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)
Best Price: $8.37
I first read this book in High School. I was impressed but 8 years later re-read the book to my...
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