Historia och memoarer
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10% Happier : How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story
Harris, DanHarperCollins 2019 RevisedIn celebration of its 10th anniversary, a revised and updated edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller that changed the way we look at meditation, expanded with ne...
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz : The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Adlington, LucyHarperCollins 2021A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the...
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Eat a Peach : A Memoir
Chang, David; Ulla, GabeClarkson Potter/Ten Speed 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl, Viktor E.Beacon Press 2006Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 19...
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Herweck, DonaTriangle Interactive, LLC 2018Martin Luther King, Jr. used peaceful protests to become one of the world's greatest African-American Civil Rights leaders. Readers will learn all about his interesting and inspiri...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt, JohnKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that m...
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : An American History
Ferrer, AdaScribner 2021WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweep...
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Martin Luther King Jr. : Walking in the Light
Fishman, Jon M.Lerner Publishing Group 2019Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential and inspiring leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. His life, work, and death are brought to life for readers like n...
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Too Much and Never Enough : How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Trump, Mary L.Simon & Schuster 2020In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a b...
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Wavewalker : Breaking Free
Heywood, SuzanneHarperCollins Publishers 2023THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand m...
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Dylan, BobSimon & Schuster 2022The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who beg...
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Shoe Dog : A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Knight, PhilScribner 2016In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the s...
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Messy Roots : A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
Gao, LauraHarperCollins 2022"Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to find themself—as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a queer person, a...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, RebeccaCrown 2010#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOT...
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So Help Me God
Pence, MikeSimon & Schuster 2022The New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence. Loyalty is a Vice President's first duty; but there is a greater one—to God and the Constitution....
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All Boys Aren't Blue : A Memoir-Manifesto
Johnson, George M.Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) 2020In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Je...
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Fen, Bog and Swamp : A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Proulx, AnnieScribner 2022*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the...
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Year of the Tiger : An Activist's Life
Wong, AliceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2022NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the conti...
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Meditations
Aurelius, MarcusDuke Classics 2012Dive into a collection of thought-provoking essays from one of the most remarkable figures in history, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius lays out his p...
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I'm Still Here : Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Brown, Austin ChanningThe Crown Publishing Group 2018NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female...