#biography #paperback #royal #princessdiana #princeharry #princewilliam 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Presents a dual portrait of the young princes of England, describing the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, dealing with their parents' breakup and mother's tragic death, and their relationships with the royal family and each other.

William and Harry

7212caf9-8054-4b04-8a95-ec70ed1cad4e-1

Jimmy Carter

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The former president embarks on an intimate journey through seasons marked by fishing, hunting, and hiking, from his boyhood in Plains, Georgia, to his tenure in the White House and his post-presidential days

Jimmy Carter’s An Outdoor Journal Adventures and Reflections (1988)

f3e774a7-70dd-4432-9761-0436d9e916b4-1

HENRY MILLER (1891-1980) was an American writer and painter infamous for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are "Tropic of Cancer," "Tropic of Capricorn," and "Black Spring." His books were banned in the United States for their lewd content until 1964 when a court ruling overturned this order, acknowledging Miller’s work as literature in what became one of the most celebrated victories of the sexual revolution. 

First edition. Small quarto. 157pp. Gray cloth spine, papercovered boards. Few tiny soil spots on boards with slight toning at the edges, top edge of rear board bumped, very good, lacking the dust jacket.  Hand numbered 639/750.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Delaware

A book about Henry Miller

The Happy Rock (A book about Henry Miller limited edition/#639 of 750)

London: Haus Publishing, 2006. Excellent biography of film director Roberto Rossellini, written by his daughtrt Isabella Rossellini and SIGNED by her on title page. 144 pages in very bright clean condition, many B/w photographs and illustrations,all present as listed plus very informative text, Dustwrapper is also very bright and clean, not price clipped, contains bonus DVD in pocket at rear. An excellent example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. 8 ½ x 7½ Inches. Hardcover.

Massachusetts

Remembering Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini, famous Italian film director and icon of neorealism, would have been 100 years old on 8 May 2006. Isabella Rosellini, offspring of the Bergman/Rossellini cinema dynasty, herself a film star, author and celebrated photo model has dreamed up a very special hommage to her father on the centenary of his birth.

In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits

652d4b78-20dc-439f-8d42-aaeeb81d0b45-1

DJ has light wear but rest of the book is in fantastic condition. 

California

The Coffee Train

Colin Powell

Nevada

In Life and Leadership

It Worked for Me

1855179a-df4a-4bc5-821e-cb48ec84ae95-1

Amy Chua

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"Courageous and thought-provoking." --David Brooks, The New York Times

"Breathtakingly personal . . . [Chua's] tale is as compelling as a good thriller." --The Financial Times

"[F]ascinating. . . . the most stimulating book on the subject of child rearing since Dr. Spock." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Chua's memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is a quick, easy read. It's smart, funny, honest and a little heartbreaking . . ." --Chicago Sun-Times

At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother's journey in strict parenting.  Amy Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children's individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future.   Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother chronicles Chua's iron-willed decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, the Chinese way - and the remarkable, sometimes heartbreaking  results her choice inspires.  Achingly honest and profoundly challenging, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is one of the most talked-about books of our times.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

61fad2c8-9ba7-43a3-8508-5d8507c467d7-1

#hardcover #biography #MichaelOher #football #TheBlindSide #NFL

From Homelessness, to the Blind Side and Beyond

The award-winning NFL athlete made famous by the book and movie, The Blind Side, reflects on the disparity between his youth and his present-day circumstances, sharing first-person perspectives on his inner-city childhood, relationship with his adoptive family and views on role models. Movie tie-in.

I Beat the Odds

6ddb1438-5bee-44e2-b4cc-1120790665cb-1

Jessica Simpson

Five years ago Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer because she believed she couldn't be authentic with her readers if she wasn't fully honest with herself first. Now she examines her life: blessed with the compassion to help others but also burdened with an almost crippling need to please. First celebrated for her voice, she became famous for music and fashion, her relationship struggles-- and as a walking blonde joke. Here she shares the wisdom and inspirations she has learned, and shows the real woman behind all the pop-culture clichés. -- adapted from jacket

Open Book

e87a8083-8f54-4bbd-8201-e99883947e26

#hardcover #nonfiction #biography #politics #rbg #ruthbaderginsburg #rolemodel #scotus 

The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You can't spell truth without Ruth. Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg can judge me. The Ruth will set you free. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame—she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, created by the young lawyer who began the Internet sensation and an award-winning journalist, takes you behind the myth for an intimate, irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stays fierce. And if you don't know, now you know.

Notorious RBG

aa97ed7f-849f-4a5b-9c56-c7a1cab558da-1

Clifford Slapper

The Life of Mike Garson

"Pianist Mike Garson was David Bowie's most frequent musician, on record and onstage throughout Bowie's life. They played over a thousand shows together between 1972 and 2004, and Garson is featured on over 20 of Bowie's albums. Bowie's Piano Man is the first-ever biography of Mike Garson. Written by Clifford Slapper, a fellow pianist who also played for Bowie, working closely with him on his last-ever television appearance. The book explores the special relationship between Garson and Bowie, beginning with the extraordinary story of how Garson went overnight from playing in tiny jazz clubs to touring the world on arena rock tours with Bowie after one short phone call and audition. A noted master of jazz, classical, and other genres, Garson has composed thousands of original works and has taught countless students, acting as mentor to many. Bowie's Piano Man explores his roots and childhood in Brooklyn, his ongoing strong presence in the jazz world, and his collaborations with a huge range of other artists in addition to Bowie. Touring and recording with the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails are given in-depth attention, as is his approach to teaching and creating music. Explored in detail in particular is his commitment to improvisation as a form of composition, a manifestation of his more general dedication to living in the moment and always moving forward a trait he shared with Bowie."--Provided by publisher.

Bowie's Piano Man

1db01558-2233-46cc-b4ec-36b059ef097e-0

Matthew McConaughey

"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--

Greenlights

76e99cca-b69e-4f8f-8fc9-58199c22074d-1

Finding Love, Making Music & Building A Life One Coty At A Time.

Home Sweet Road

Rare two-volume set in excellent condition. First Greenwood Press edition (1969). Collectible. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Life of Michael Angelo Two Volume Set 

91e23253-c1e1-4222-a8b6-f719e7f4cb1c-0

#paperback #biography #Military strategy 

The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap

From KIRKUS REVIEWS: An absorbing biography of Vietnam's ranking soldier-statesman and, arguably, one of military history's greatest captains, from a scholar who gained direct access to him. Drawing on interviews with and material supplied by Giap (born 1912), Currey (Edward Lansdale, 1988) offers an engrossing account of how his protagonist played a leading role in an impoverished, industrially backward nation's military defeat of two Western powers. A dedicated member of the Communist Party long before he became a warrior, the self-taught Giap accomplished much as supreme commander of his country's guerrilla, militia, and regular-army forces. Having conducted effective anti-colonial insurgencies during the late 1940s, for example, he routed the French in a pitched battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Giap subsequently organized grassroots resistance in South Vietnam and masterminded campaigns that made continuation of America's Indochinese commitments politically untenable after the Tet offensive of 1968. In his tellingly detailed narrative (which doubles as a chronicle of armed conflict in Vietnam from the preWW II era through the border clashes with Cambodia and China in 1979), Currey (History/Univ. of South Florida) does not shy from cataloguing Giap's shortcomings. Among other things, he faults him for his active involvement in the Politburo's bloody pogroms and his willingness to sustain appalling casualties in pursuit of his objectives. The author nonetheless gives Giap full marks for strategic vision, geopolitical savvy, tactical finesse, and grasp of logistics. Currey also makes a fine job of reconstructing Giap's early years as a teacher and the influences that set him on arevolutionary's path. An authoritative briefing on a great general.

Victory at Any Cost

0c10b400-1db6-4676-927d-7d8f6d2d189b-1

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe

A portrait of the twentieth-century woman artist discusses such topics as her marriage to art photography pioneer Alfred Stieglitz, the impact of his infidelity on her psyche, and her relocation to New Mexico, where she created her signature works. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Full Bloom

f0d4457b-dba7-46b2-a838-fb881c44d02f-1

#hardcover #magnolia #selfhelp #joannagaines #autobiography #biography 

Florida

Every Piece of Your Story Matters

In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story -- and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own -- guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth



The Stories We Tell

fbec0e79-45c7-4893-8524-6aaded3e2025-1

Michelle Burford

Michelle Knight

A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: a Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope. Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year.

Finding Me

f514f7bc-2449-4aae-bf89-ca239f57c229-1

North Carolina

SCALA 

Michelangelo

Rain Pryor

Signed Biography Book on Life, Love and Loss with Comedian Richard Pryor. Good Condition. Jacket has a scratch on the back. Otherwise Excellent. Perfect for Black Entertainment Collectors, or people who like Film. He was hilarious. Medium Size Book. 

Missouri

Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor

The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy legend Richard Pryor

Rain Pryor was born in the idealistic, free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a tribe of rainbow children, and her father was Richard Pryor, perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era.

In this intimate, harrowing, and often hilarious memoir, Rain talks about her divided heritage, and about the forces that shaped her wildly schizophrenic childhood. In her father's house, she bonded with Richard's grandmother, Mamma, a one-time whorehouse madam who never tired of reminding Rain that she was black. In her mother's house, and in the home of her Jewish grandparents, Rain was a "mocha-colored Jewish princess," learning how to cook everything from kugel to beef brisket.

It seemed as if Rain was blessed with the best of both worlds, but it didn't quite work out that way. Life at Mom's was unstable in the extreme, while at Richard's place Rain was exposed to sex and drugs before she had even learned to read. "Daddy," she told her father one day, sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner at the advanced age of eight, "the whores need to be paid."

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is both lovingly told and painfully frank: the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him--and feared for him--as his drug problems grew worse. In 1980 Pryor tried to kill himself by setting himself on fire, then joked that it had been an accident: "No one ever told me you couldn't mix cookies with two types of milk!" In his later years, Pryor succumbed to multiple sclerosis, and Rain watched in tears as her father became a shell of his former self. Once, in an unusually introspective mood, Pryor asked his daughter, "Why do you love me, Rainy, when I can be so mean?"

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me answers that poignant question and many more. It is an unprecedented look at the life of a legend of comedy, told by a daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man within.

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me

a8d45f99-73cd-4343-bd73-f460c6205fe9-1

Mick Ebeling

Signed Autobiography Book by EyeWriter Founder & Inventor Mick Ebeling. Very Good Condition. Hardcover. Jacket and pages have light wear as shown. Illustrated. Perfect for Builders, Creators or Engineers. Medium Size Book.

The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done

An inspiring entrepreneur and philanthropist describes his do-it-yourself-style inventions, which have included a prosthetic hand made on a 3D printer for a boy in the Sudan and a tracking device that turns eye movements into an onscreen cursor. 50,000 first printing

Not Impossible

f709fd44-8cde-4764-9bdd-e812128732de-1

Andrew Woods

Bundle of seven picture book bio’s for early readers in excellent condition.

Utah

A simple biography of the brothers who launched the air age in 1903 when their flying machine stayed in the air for twelve seconds.

Young Reader Biographies Bundle

64cd1e09-be11-4537-b2c0-e2528c1b6406-1

Alison Bechdel

A Family Tragicomic

A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.

Fun Home

0fe99653-0876-4c57-acde-b73d4beb1085-1

Cheryl Strayed

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Ingrid Seward