Moving Memoir

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heroes and Nashville star Hayden Panettiere reclaims her story in a remarkably candid memoir. Read by the author. Hayden Panettiere’s career in entertainment began before she was old enough to walk. From early commercials to film and...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN. Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth? Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on...

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family...

An enthralling journey into the world of chess--a story of heartbreak, obsession, failure, and the hunger for greatness Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First...

It's never too late to chase your dreams: Before she discovered running, Nita Sweeney was 49-years-old, chronically depressed, occasionally manic, and unable to jog for more than 60 seconds at a time. Using exercise, Nita discovered an inner strength she didn't know she possessed, and with the help of her canine companion, she found herself on the way to completing her first marathon. In her memoir, Sweeney shares how she overcame emotional and physical challenges to finish the race and come back from the brink. 

How can an average climber do the hardest route in the world? Dave MacLeod wasn’t even the best among his fellow rock climbers in Glasgow, until a sequence of key decisions and influences catalysed his progression from an unremarkable intermediate to one of the best all-round climbers in the world. Dave shows that much of his advantage came from easily trainable skills or behavioural traits that could be replicated by any climber.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient...

This New York Times bestselling memoir is a raw and riveting portrait of a youth spent wild in Los Angeles, from the iconic bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "Virtuostic vulnerability." —The Atlantic In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the complex man and controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy. Preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest conflict.

The extraordinary, inspiring, and enthralling life story of the legendary grandmaster Judit Polgár, the greatest female chess player of all time Judit Polgár was born in communist Hungary in 1976. Her family lived modestly, but her father, László, had very unconventional, exceptional ideas...

*****Audiobook format of All My Knotted-Up Life - ECPA's 2024 Christian Book of the Year Award WINNER***** An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. “It’s a peculiar thing, this...

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy...

Power is changing. Private corner offices and management by decree are out, as is unquestioned trust in the government and media. These former pillars of traditional power have been replaced by networks of informed citizens who collectively wield more power over their personal lives, employers, and worlds than ever before. So how do you navigate this new landscape and come out on top? Adam Grant, Wharton organizational psychologist, went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the epicenter of power, and sat down with thought leaders from around the world, to find out.

From the bestselling author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, an insightful memoir that begs the question: what if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey...

Day 1. I wrote "Move to Italy" on a Post-it note at 2am after watching a YouTube video. I don't know what I was thinking.When Bob Henderson, a recently retired actuary from Columbus, Ohio, buys a one-euro farmhouse in the mountains of Abruzzo, he expects a project. What he gets is a life.Told in ninety daily diary entries spanning October to March, I Bought a Farm in Italy is the record of a man learning — how to prune an olive tree, make a correct ragù, lose gracefully at Scopa, and understand the specific patience of a hill town that has been watching outsiders arrive and leave for six...

This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, and many more.

Moving On Without Them: The Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again When Bill Fitzpatrick lost his wife Cindy to glioblastoma, the life they had built together collapsed overnight. After twenty-two years of marriage, he suddenly found himself alone in a quiet house filled with memories—and questions he never expected to face. Who was he now? How do you move forward when the person who shaped your life is gone? And is it even possible to love again after that kind of loss? Moving On Without Them is an unflinchingly honest memoir about grief, loneliness, and the complicated journey ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook shares a life-affirming memoir where he travels the world with his brother. "Refreshingly honest and perceptive." —Publishers Weekly In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It...

Raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul, Budd Schulberg went on to win fame as a distinguished novelist, short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and boxing historian.