Back Biographies & Memoirs | July Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Biographies & Memoirs  
Hungry: What Eighty Ravenous Guys Taught Me about Life, Love, and the Power of Good Food

Darlene Barnes · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

The book is as much about nourishment as it is food. Barnes affection for the fraternity brothers carries the narrative. . . . A heartening memoir of good food and tough love.--Kirkus ReviewsNewly arrived in Seattle, Darlene Barnes stumbles on a job ad for a cook at the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity...
Read More check catalog
 
 
My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married (American Lives)

Joey Franklin

Modern manhood is confusing and complicated, but Joey Franklin, a thirtysomething father of three, is determined to make the best of it. In My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married, he offers frank, self-deprecating meditations on everything from male-pattern baldness and the balm...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Goebbels: A Biography

Peter Longerich · Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda. In life, and in the grisly manner of his death, Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. By the end, no one in the Berlin...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine

Daniel Halper · Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they...
Read More check catalog
 
 
One Lucky Bastard: Tales from Tinseltown

Roger Moore · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, hes an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over but hes also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of the nicest...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Brothers Forever: The Enduring Bond between a Marine and a Navy SEAL that Transcended Their Ultimate Sacrifice

Tom Sileo · Da Capo Press
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover

Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington National Cemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage and sacrifice of the two young men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

John F Ross · St Martins Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car and airplane--took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into...
Read More check catalog
 
 
An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter

Paul Daugherty · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A father's exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own. Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought her home from the hospital,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging

Dick Van Dyke · Weinstein Books
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

Show-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who's entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? Van Dyke isn't just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words

Maeve Binchy · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they...
Read More check catalog