Biography & Autobiography
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
$24.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: “authoritative and enormously engaging…Eyman takes you through Wayne’s life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable
- Author: Eyman, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 1439199590
- Language: English
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Back in the Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur
$19.99 Add to cartA legend after a bullet killed him at the age of twenty-five, Tupac Shakur was the most riveting rap musician of his day. Far from being the insolent “gangsta” the press put forth, Shakur was fiercely
- Author: Bastfield, Darin Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: May 10, 2007
- ISBN10: 0306812959
- Language: English
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Donnie Brasco: Tie in Edition
$9.99 Read morePosing as jewel thief “Donnie Brasco,” FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia… [more below]
- Author: Pistone, Joseph D.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0451192575
- Language: English
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office, Revised Edition
$18.00 Add to cartUpdated and revised–the story of American rapper Jay-Z’s glass-shattering rise from the Brooklyn projects to the top of the business world.
Beyond the award-wining albums and chart-topping hits, Jay- Author: Greenburg, Zack O’Malley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1591848342
- Language: English
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
$19.99 Add to cartActor Rob Lowe’s memoir presents a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.
A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and found- Author: Lowe, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1250008859
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
$21.99 Add to cartIt has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786888415
- Language: English
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Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.’s Most Notorious Gang
$25.00 Add to cartInside the Crips is a memoir of Colton Simpson’s life as a Crip — beginning at the tender age of ten in the mid 70s — and his prison turnaround twenty-five years later.
- Author: Simpson, Colton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 031232930X
- Language: English
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
$16.95 Add to cartLooking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one … [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Sanchez, Reymundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556524277
- Language: English
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I Know I Am, But What Are You?
$16.00 Add to cartCandid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from much-loved Samantha Bee, host of TBS’s uproarious late-night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, executive producer and writer of TBS’s comedy tele
- Author: Bee, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439142742
- Language: English
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
$23.00 Add to cart“Profound, funny … wild and moving … heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood…. Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385471076
- Language: English
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The Book of Rock Quotes
$12.95 Add to cartSex, drugs, egos, money, fans, music, god and who we love and hate… the rock stars have their say. Featuring over 2,000 words of wisdom and stupidity from all your favourite rock stars and five deca
- Author: Heatley, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 1847724183
- Language: English
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90 Minutos En El Cielo: Una Historia Real de Vida Y Muerte
$21.25 Add to cartAhora disponible en espa ol. 90 minutos en el Cielo es el xito de librer a que relata la experiencia de un hombre ante la muerte y la vida. Cuando el ministro bautista Don Piper conduc a de regreso a… [more below]
- Author: Piper, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0800731743
- Language: Spanish
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Invisible Threads
$18.00 Add to cartWhat began as an ordinary January day in 2017 became every parent’s worst nightmare when Maureen and Doug Walgren’s sixteen-year-old son, Corey, died under shocking and tragic circumstances. Inv
- Author: Walgren, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 11 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218929893
- Language: English
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You Are STILL The Brand, Stupid! How To Avoid the Commodity Trap
$31.95 Add to cartIf You’re Invisible, You’re Replaceable: How to Stop Being Treated Like a Commodity and Become the Obvious Choice
In a marketplace defined by noise and comparison, competence alone no longer guarantees
- Author: Myers CMD, Tracy E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: May 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1977287522
- Language: English
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust
$9.99 Add to cartThe twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is
- Author: Perl, Lila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0062489968
- Language: English
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How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things
$18.99 Add to cartAn unflinchingly honest and sometimes hilarious look at hustle culture, exploring the forces that have shaped a generation of overachieving women who now find themselves in search of a better way forw
- Author: Williams, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1250340926
- Language: English
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Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John
$30.99 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
‘Outstanding’ – The Guardian
‘Superb’ – The Telegraph
‘A must read’ – Anne Sebba
‘Lively’ – The Times They seemed to be polar opposites . . . Augustus: v- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1529095840
- Language: English
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
$18.00 Add to cart“Astonishing…Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire” – The Telegraph
“sparkles with energy, insight and passion… difficult to put down.” Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Co- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1399417754
- Language: English
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Boy: When you find the boy, you discover the man
$22.99 Add to cartBoy
A true story of love, loss, survival and finding your voice.
Before the roads. Before the raves. Before the reputation. Before the man.
There was just the boy. A black child raised in a white seaside
- Author: Nwaka, Fredi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1919214607
- Language: English
