Biographies/Autobiographies
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Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow
$17.99 Read moreA 2017 Michigan Notable Book
After World War II, the American automobile industry was reeling. Having spent years building tanks and airplanes for the army, the car companies would need years more to- Author: Lehto, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777737
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.
Brazen, incisive, and outra- Series: Gonzo Letters #02
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0684873168
- Language: English
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Not Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem
$19.99 Add to cartTHE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM, CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM’S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES… [more below]
- Author: Bozza, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0306922959
- Language: English
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Magic City: Trials of a Native Son
$18.99 Add to cart“A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.”
Trick Daddy was born a thu- Author: Trick Daddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2010
- ISBN10: 143914852X
- Language: English
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Blood in My Eye
$22.95 Add to cartBlood In My Eye was completed only days before it’s author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, G… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, George L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: December 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121237
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
$21.00 Add to cart“Finding Ultra blends Rich Roll’s story of superhuman personal transformation with an amazingly practical guide to plant-based living. It’s also an enlightened manifesto for anyone wanting to transfor
- Author: Roll, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0307952207
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade
$9.99 Add to cartThe dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope…
David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania h- Author: Wilkerson, David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0515090255
- Language: English
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Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
$26.99 Add to cartFor the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed t… [more below]
- Author: Koschorrek, Gunter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0760321981
- Language: English
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Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica
$24.00 Add to cartSprung from the roots of 70s hard rock, Metallica defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal, just as Led Zeppelin had for hard rock and the Sex Pistols for punk before them. Inventors of thrash
- Author: Wall, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250007313
- Language: English
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Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story
$20.00 Add to cartTom Hanks introduces the “remarkable” (Publishers Weekly) true story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO(R) miniseries Band of Brothers.
Look for the Band of Brothers miniseri- Author: Guarnere, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0425224368
- Language: English
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Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
$15.95 Add to cartMortuary Confidential does for the undertaker profession what Stiff did for cadavers–it manages to be as informative and heartwarming as it is irreverent and hilarious. This collection of real storie… [more below]
- Author: Harra, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0806541393
- Language: English
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Summary and Analysis of Man’s Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
$7.99 Add to cartSo much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man’s Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth- Series: Smart Summaries
- Author: Worth Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1504046773
- Language: English
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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
$21.99 Read moreAward-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle.
The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder wa
- Author: Leavy, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0060883537
- Language: English
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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
$17.00 Add to cart“Written from the heart and without restraint, alive.”–The New York Times
Vincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and com… [more below]- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0452275040
- Language: English
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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 – 73
$35.00 Read moreIn this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period
- Author: Kozinn, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063000709
- Language: English
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Mao: The Unknown Story
$28.00 Add to cartThe most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talk
- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0679746323
- Language: English
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Born Again
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1974 Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to Watergate-related offenses and, after a tumultuous investigation, served seven months in prison. In his search for meaning and purpose in the face of the Wa… [more below]
- Author: Colson, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0800794591
- Language: English
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.
“An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Ira
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0062431641
- Language: English
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Permanent Record
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he he- Author: Snowden, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250772907
- Language: English
