The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - The Real Life Sherlock Holmes by Christopher Sandford
Category: Biography
When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife, beginning Conan Doyle's ...Show more
My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Marlena Spieler
Category: Biography
Before extraterrestrial Trash Queen Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 rocketed to superstardom on RuPaul's Drag Race, Justin Andrew Honard was a small-town Pennsylvania boy searching for a stage. This dishy, visual memoir spills the tea on Alaska's meteoric rise to fame, from her childhood makeovers of Mickey Mou ...Show more
Becoming Forrest: One Man's Epic Run Across America by Rob Pope
Category: Biography
The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. Becoming Forrest is the incredible story of Englishman Rob Pope, a veterinarian who left his job in pursuit of a dream - to become the first person ever to ...Show more
Foucault in Warsaw by Remigiusz Ryzinski; Sean Gasper Bye (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: Polish Reportage Ser.
In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis--a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was there, he became involved with a number of members of the gay community, including a certain "Jurek," who eventually lead the secret police directly to Fo ...Show more
Nicci was here: A Memoir by Peta West
Category: Biography
Not a lot happened while growing up during the Sixties and Seventies. Or did it? A country town, an ordinary house, two parents and three children. A family like any other, until a series of events alters the course of their lives forever.
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
Category: Biography
This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-accla ...Show more
Vincent O'Brien by Jacqueline O'Brien
Category: Biography
Vincent O'Brien is a horse-racing legend. Recently voted horse racing's 'greatest of all time', ahead of familiar names like Lester Piggott, the Queen Mother and Sheikh Mohammed, O'Brien won every race that matters in Britain and Ireland over his fifty-year career and is without doubt the best and most ...Show more
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
Category: Biography
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince AlbertFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trus ...Show more
Mox by Jon Moxley
Category: Biography
A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the business--a nobody from nowhere who achieved his ambitions and walked away with the gold and the girl of his dreams. Ride alongside Jon Moxley as he retraces some of the highways traveled on his remarkable journey. Revel in the ne ...Show more
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
Category: Biography
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana . . . and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful ...Show more
Am I Black Enough For You?: 10 Years On by Anita Heiss
Category: Biography
The story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradyuri woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed ...Show more
Love in Action, Second Edition: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change by Thich Nhat Hanh
Category: Biography
Be inspired by 21 key writings on nonviolence and reconciliation by Vietnamese peace activist and refugee advocate Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh The essence of nonviolence is love, Thich Nhat Hanh says. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent ...Show more