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Think and Grow Rich

By Napoleon Hill

Biographies and Memoirs

EXTREMELY USEFULL! IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years.

The Wingmen

By Adam Lazarus

Biographies and Memoirs

CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history.…

The Way of the Hermit

By Ken Smith

Biographies and Memoirs

The International Bestseller 'A love story to the mountains in the mist, the pulsating northern lights and the red deer at dawn. And to independence' – The Washington Post 'A Thoreauvian account of solitary life in the Scottish Highlands .…

The Speechwriter

By Barton Swaim

Biographies and Memoirs

From 2007 to 2010 Swaim worked for Mark Sanford, South Carolina's governor, as a communications officer and speechwriter. Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system and its ways, but thinks he doesn't…

The Pursuit of Happiness

By Jeffrey Rosen

Biographies and Memoirs

"The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John…

The Pale-Faced Lie

By David Crow

Biographies and Memoirs

David Crow presents a riveting account of his experience growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation with a mentally ill mother and violent father, an ex-con from San Quentin who groomed David to be his partner in crime. Raw and…

The Operator

By Robert O'Neill

Biographies and Memoirs

New York Times Bestseller A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard…

The Money Kings

By Daniel Schulman

Biographies and Memoirs

The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the New York Times best-selling…