Biographies & Memoirs

Daring To Drive   THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN. ? THE GUARDIAN:  'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN' ON WOMEN...

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary leader and his rise - from the...

Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal   A  New York Times  bestseller A  USA Today  bestseller The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class...

Miracle In The Cave: The 12 Lost Boys, Their Coach, And The Heroes Who Rescued Them Featuring never-before-reported details and exclusive interviews with the boys, their families, and rescue workers, the inspiring true story of how twelve members of the Wild Boar Academy Football Club...

Going Solo : My Choice To Become A Single Mother Using A Donor   Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives hope to anyone who wants children and to anyone who finds themselves single. Not to follow this...

Proud: Living My American Dream The inspiring all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, and Time"100 Most Influential People" honoree Ibtihaj Muhammad At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ibtihaj Muhammad smashed barriers as the first...

Harry's Last Stand: How The World My Generation Built Is Falling Down, And What We Can Do To Save It   'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer,...

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doctor, this time taking us deeper into the walls of Bronzefield, the UK's biggest women's prison. From the drug addicts who call Amanda 'the mother I never...

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947   Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory...

The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House "One of the most compelling stories I've seen about what it's actually like to serve the American people" - BARACK OBAMA A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency and a political memoir about the power of...

The Heat Of The Moment: Stories Of Life And Death Decisions From A Firefighter "One of the wonder women of our emergency services" - Glamour "An inspirational woman" - Good Housekeeping Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter for eighteen years. She decides...

The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan   An in-depth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work today, written with his full cooperation. A rare, revelatory portrait, "as close as you're...

Dadlife "This is the story of my journey into parenthood, from being a 24 year old man-child with no idea of what being a dad involved, to where I find myself today: the single male representative in a household of five women, or in other words, outnumbered. Our house is now known as...

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don’t know, I’m – what’s the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her -...

DK Life Stories Alexander Hamilton In this kids' biography, discover the amazing life story of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of the United States whose strong personality and work as an American statesman made him an icon of history and popular culture....