Biographies and Memoirs
_________ The uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD & WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER…
Biographies and Memoirs
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of…
Biographies and Memoirs
A gripping look at the life of the seventeenth-century sea captain and the never-before-told story of his hunt for the ruthless pirate Robert Culliford. "A richly detailed nautical thriller . . . combines exciting escapism with thought-provoking history." —James Bamford,…
Biographies and Memoirs
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across…
Biographies and Memoirs
In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. Born…
Biographies and Memoirs
"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." — Booklist The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious…
Biographies and Memoirs
New York Times–Bestseller: "A lush picture of the complicated relationship between . . . Jackie Onassis and Lee Radziwill. . . . Gossipy gems are studded throughout." — Vanity Fair When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue…
Biographies and Memoirs
"Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in…
Biographies and Memoirs
"Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country's leading political family ... In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When France fell…
Biographies and Memoirs
Em 15 de janeiro de 2009, o mundo testemunhou um pouso de emergência notável quando o comandante Chesley Sullenberger, um piloto com mais de vinte mil horas de voo, habilidosamente deslizou o avião da US Airways sobre o rio Hudson,…
Biographies and Memoirs
" Funny, elegiac . . . a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world." —NPR One of the Best Books of the Year—Amazon, Golf Digest , Minnesota Public Radio This is a story of the 1970s.…
Biographies and Memoirs
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age. “A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years. . . . Reading this…
