ISBN: 9781401324056 ABC Item: 406696 Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminu...
For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success, having an impact both on the ...
In 1989, Robert B. Oxnam, the successful China scholar and president of the Asia Society, faced up to what he thought was his biggest personal chal...
In his earlier books, TV news anchor Tom Brokaw has leaned heavily on the experiences of others to remember and define what he calls "the Greatest ...
At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. When she finds herself unex...
Florida Senator Marco Rubio electrified the 2012 Republican National Convention by telling the story of his parents, who were struggling immig...
The U.S. Open in June 2008 pro...
Parents are advised to approach this wrenching memoir with caution--it will evoke all their worst fears. It's not just that Martha Tod Dudman frank...
It was the murder that stunned even the most hardened New Yorkers. On May 23, 1997, affable realtor Michael McMorrow was strolling home through Cen...
In this tepid memoir, the 60 Minutes grand inquisitor appears rather manipulative, turning on a dime from unctuous insinuation to prosecutor...
The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie.
Confessions of a ...
When she lands a coveted nonpaying, nonspeaking role in a play going on a European tour, Rachel Shukert—with a brand-new degree in ac...
The Dodsons always knew where to go to solve their problems: the golf course. For decades, father and son took refuge there together; in the game, ...
College soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friend's pickup truck when his fr...
HER WAY has already sent shockwaves through the election season, influencing the decisions of voters, providing pundits with tons of ammunitio...
Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! Laurie Notaro survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony....
Don't come to this bitter, engrossing memoir for a quick and easy laugh. The material that Margaret Cho has turned to such riotous ends in her stan...
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