Biographies/Autobiographies
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
$19.94 Add to cart“My purpose,” Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, “is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am.” Satyagraha, Gandhi’s nonviolent protest movement (satya = true,
- Author: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1684117232
- Language: English
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The Man I Was Destined to Be
$13.99 Add to cartMichael’s lengthy battle with drug addiction resulted in a seven-year prison sentence. After three years and the death of his father, he realized that his choices prevented him from becoming the man h
- Author: Tandoi, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1490802169
- Language: English
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Gladys Aylward: A Life for China
$17.99 Add to cartWounded by a Japanese bullet as she led nearly a hundred refugee children to safety over the mountains of China, Gladys Aylward’s story has been immortalised through the film ‘The Inn of the Sixth Hap… [more below]
- Author: Purves, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1909281492
- Language: English
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My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician
$19.95 Add to cartA rare glimpse into the fascinating, sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious world of a modern ceremonial magician. Hailed by critics as the most entertaining author and one of the most widely respe… [more below]
- Author: DuQuette, Lon Milo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1578631203
- Language: English
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Black and White: The Way I See It
$17.00 Add to cartThe fascinating, “upfront and unapologetic” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, subject of the major motion picture King Richard, and father to two of the greates… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 147670421X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography and Other Writings
$5.95 Add to cartA comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father.
Benjamin- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0451469887
- Language: English
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Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
$18.99 Add to cartSome people are born to lead and destined to teach by the example of living life to the fullest, and facing death with uncommon honesty and courage. Peter Barton was that kind of person.
Driven by the
- Author: Shames, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 006073731X
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant
$19.99 Add to cartThrough her own gripping story of escape from human trafficking, Rebecca Bender reveals the inner workings of the underground world of modern-day slavery and helps us learn how we can be a catalyst fo
- Author: Bender, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0310356857
- Language: English
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Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion
$28.99 Add to cartThe first-hand account of the author’s six years as a professional soldier and member of the French Foreign Legion’s elite Group Commando Parachutistes.
In Appel, Joel Struthers recounts the dangers an
- Author: Struthers, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 177112105X
- Language: English
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartWritten in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 190
- Author: Haffner, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421133
- Language: English
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cart“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Leavy, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0061779008
- Language: English
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Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father’s Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons–one whom he is raising and the ot… [more below]
- Author: Senghor, Shaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238036
- Language: English
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Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth
$23.00 Add to cartThe first book in the Cosmic Trigger trilogy reveals the enlightening secret of the Illuminati while presenting the daunting metaphor of Chapel Perilous where the unprepared can get lost in a spirited… [more below]
- Series: Cosmic Trigger #2
- Author: Wilson, Robert Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: February 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0998713465
- Language: English
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
$38.99 Add to cart“The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true.”–The New
- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080066
- Language: English
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Dark Days: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartLamb of god vocalist D. Randall Blythe finally tells the whole incredible story of his arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic over the tragic and accidental… [more below]
- Author: Blythe, D. Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0306825090
- Language: English
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A Circle of Quiet
$21.99 Add to cartThe beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals.
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My speci- Series: Crosswicks Journals #1
- Author: L’Engle, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1504064461
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie I: King of All Kings and Lord of All Lords; My Life and Ethopia’s Progress 1892-1937
$34.99 Add to cart- Series: My Life and Ethiopia’s Progress (Paperback) #1
- Author: Sellassie, Haile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0948390409
- Language: English
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process)
$19.99 Add to cartSlipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor’s New York Times bestselling journey into the world of ghosts and the supernatural
Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things. However, many of hi- Author: Taylor, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 030682292X
- Language: English
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Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend
$30.00 Add to cartA rare biography of a California Indian leader that weaves together the story of a legendary figure.
It’s a little known fact that the San Francisco Bay Area’s Marin County is named after a Coast Miwok
- Author: Goerke, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597140538
- Language: English
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Blood and Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel
$37.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the man who created America’s most famous whiskey
Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate d
- Author: Krass, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: April 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0471273929
- Language: English
