Biography & Memoir

Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewal
Richard Barrios
Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, Screened Out is for all film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater...

Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Howard Bryant
This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston.

For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut
Scott Carpenter and Kristen Stoever
The second American to orbit the earth tells the saga of his life as an astronaut and the inspiring story of his pioneering family.

It's a Long Way from Penny Apples
Bill Cullen
No matter what life throws you, life is great! This is the mantra of a heartwarming memoir about overcoming adversity in Dublin’s Summerhill slums...

Snowstruck
Jill Fredston
Having spent decades trying to keep avalanches and people apart, Fredston brings them together unforgettably in Snowstruck.

So Others Might Live
Terry Golway
So Others Might Live is a moving and original history of the city and the firefighting vocation as seen through the eyes of "New York's Bravest."

Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
Life on the Outside is the first major work of journalism on the subject of re-entry: the challenge of leaving prison and re-entering the free world, a journey that...

Positively 4th Street
David Hajdu
A mesmerizing account of how four young people gave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring sound and style of the 1960s.

Open Wide the Freedom Gates
Dr. Dorothy Height
A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement tells the remarkable story of her life, her work, and what it means to be both black and a woman.

Madness - A Bipolar Life
Marya Hornbacher
From the author of the bestselling Wasted, an utterly self-revealing and heart-stopping memoir.

When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir
Bob Kerrey
In Bob Kerrey's own words, the inspiring story of his journey from America's heartland to a fateful coming-of-age in the cauldron of the Vietnam War.

To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, A Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Dan Koeppel
From a well-known nature writer comes a narrative that explores a life-long obsession with competitive birding, and the love loss between a father and son.

American Ground, Unbuilding the World Trade Center
William Langewiesche
American Ground is the story-until now untold-of the people who responded to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Positively Fifth Street
James McManus
Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science - and eros - of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas. A New York Times Bestseller.

To Reach The Clouds
Philippe Petit
An "artist of the air" re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination.

Lessons for Dylan
Joel Siegel
Good Morning America's beloved movie critic shares with his son - and readers - what he's learned in fifty-four years of an extraordinary life in a poignant, funny, wise, and entertaining memoir.

Microthrills
Wendy Spero
MICROTHRILLS is a book of candid and profoundly funny essays about the smaller highs in life, by award-winning writer Wendy Spero.

The Turk
Tom Standage
Part historical detective story, part biography, The Turk relates the saga of the machine's remarkable and checkered career against the backdrop of the industrial revolution.

The World of Caffeine
Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer
Here is the first natural, cultural and artistic history of our favorite mood enhancer -- its discovery; its early uses; and its unexpected importance in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning and love.