Biography & Memoirs

A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature.

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.

The vivid story of a hippie, a carpenter, a Vietnam vet, analcoholic, a marine engineer, and agreat dad who battled his demons on the Buddhist path.

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve itMost important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life (The New Yorker).

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.

A lifetimes worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son (Kirkus Reviews)the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking projectconstructing, with his father, his own coffin.

How often do you hear a doctor saying doctors need to be more accountable, Medicare needs more support and family medicine deserves more respect?Dissident Doctorbristles with refreshingly frank criticisms from inside the health sector, and its author is not just any doctor but a distinguished scientific researcher, veteran medical admin