Biografía y autobiografía / Literatura anglosajona

Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed

de Patricia Cornwell

Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.

In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror.  An elusive madman calling himself Jack the...

A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family

de Lou Ann Walker

From the time she was a toddler, Lou Ann Walker was the ears and voice for her deaf parents. Their family life was warm and loving, but outside the home, they faced a world that misunderstood and often rejected...

Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt

de Matt Diehl & Butch Walker

The artist named by Rolling Stone as one of America’s best singer-songwriters and the 2005 Producer of the Year shares the inside story of his music career

From his days with one-hit-wonder band the Marvelous...

Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

de Billy Graham

Hailed as "the world's preacher," Billy Graham has enjoyed a career that has spanned six decades and his ministry of faith has touched the hearts and souls of millions.

In Just As I Am Graham reveals his life...

On Wings of Eagles

de Ken Follett

When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands.

An Angry-Ass Black Woman

de Karen E. Quinones Miller

The autobiographical novel from the author of Uptown Dreams and Satin Doll

Karen E. Quinones Miller is AN ANGRY-ASS BLACK WOMAN

You’d be angry, too . . . if you grew up poorer than poor in Harlem in the 1960s...

Fast Girl: Don't Brake Until You See the Face of God and Other Good Advice from the Racetrack

de Ingrid Steffensen

Life in Ingrid Steffensen’s New Jersey suburb was safe, comfortable, and predictable. A college professor, wife, and mother of a preadolescent daughter, her carefully cultivated world was comprised of the...

Edwina Currie: Diaries 1992-1997

de Edwina Currie

Never far from centre stage, Edwina Currie falls comfortably into that category of celebrity you simply cannot ignore. Her first published diaries explosively revealed an affair with former Prime Minister John...

Roman's Journey

de Roman Halter

Roman Halter is an optimistic and boisterous schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gather behind net curtains to watch the Volksdeutsch neighbours of their small town in western Poland greeting the arrival...

The Upstairs Room (Winner of the Newbery Honor)

de Johanna Reiss

This Newbery Honor-winning book shows us that in the steady courage of a young girl lies a profound strength that can transcend the horrors of war. This is the true story of a girl's extraordinary survival during...

S.W.A.T.: Blue Knights in Black Armor

de Lt. Dan Marcou

This highly charged and entertaining novel will give the reader a sustained look inside the world of SWAT. Open the book, take a deep breath, and read the police novel that real cops read.

Lillian Gilbreth: Redefining Domesticity

de Julie Des Jardins

An accessible, engaging examination of Lillian Gilbreth, whose research in efficiency and human factors changed the way factories are run, how domestic tasks are completed, and how consumers are “sold” on...

Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

de Geoff Dyer

From a writer whose mastery encompasses fiction, criticism, and the fertile realm between the two, comes a new book that confirms his reputation for the unexpected.

In Zona, Geoff Dyer attempts to unlock the...

The Man Within My Head

de Pico Iyer

We all carry people inside our heads—actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know.

In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer...

Tony Hillerman's Landscape

de Anne Hillerman

A photographic journey through the landscape immortalized in bestselling author Tony Hillerman' s beloved mystery series featuring the legendary Navajo police officers Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim...