Biographies & True Stories eTextbooks

My Cousin the Saint

A Story of Love, Miracles, and an Italian Family Reunited

The Bitter Sea

Coming of Age in a China Before Mao

The Pirate Queen

Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire

Out of Bounds

Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime

Salem Witch Judge

The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

Taking Heat

The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House

Breakfast at the Victory

The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience

Master Mind

The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

Revised and Expanded Edition

Running for My Life

My Journey in the Game of Football and Beyond

The Airplane

How Ideas Gave Us Wings

Clublife

Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs

Mindfreak

Secret Revelations

Saving Darwin

How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution

The Sistine Secrets

Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

Denial

A Memoir of Terror

Paranormal State

My Journey into the Unknown

Family of Shadows

A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream

The Governator

From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Rules According to JWOWW

Shore-Tested Secrets on Landing a Mint Guy, Staying Fresh to Death, and Kicking the Competition to the Curb

Sugar in My Bowl

Real Women Write About Real Sex

Getting the Pretty Back

Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick

Burro Genius

A Memoir

Judging Thomas

The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas

The Autism Sourcebook

Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing--from a Mother Whose Child Recovered

Chasing Grace

Reflections of a Catholic Girl, Grown Up

Dishwasher

One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States

Model Patient

My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass

One Matchless Time

A Life of William Faulkner

The Rant Zone

An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs!

Silent Witness

The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death

Wild Heart: A Life

Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris

Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?

I Am My Father's Daughter

Living a Life Without Secrets

Ridin' High, Livin' Free

Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories

Hef's Little Black Book

After the Flag Has Been Folded

A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together

Flotsametrics and the Floating World

How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science

Happy Hour Is for Amateurs

Work Sucks. Life Doesn't Have To.

The Burlesque Handbook

Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down

A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse

The Race for Timbuktu

The Story of Gordon Laing and the Race

Dish

The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show

Strong of Heart

Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

An Oral/Visual History

The Last Gangster

From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob

War Room

The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team

I'm Awesome

One Man's Triumphant Quest to Become the Sweetest Dude Ever

The Magnificent Medills

America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor

Need, Speed, and Greed

How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems

The Arrogant Years

One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

Johnny Football

Johnny Manziel's Road from the Texas Hill Country to the Top of College Football

Desert Flower

The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

Let Me Tell You Something

Life as a Real Housewife, Tough-Love Mother, and Street-Smart Businesswoman

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.

A Random Act

An Inspiring True Story of Fighting to Survive and Choosing to Forgive

The Fellowship

The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

The Universe of Peter Max

Miss Anne in Harlem

The White Women of the Black Renaissance

Alone Together

My Life with J. Paul Getty

U.S. Marshals

Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency

Here We Are Now

The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

President Me

The America That's in My Head

Today I Am a Ma'am

and Other Musings On Life, Beauty, and Growing Older

Back Then

Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York

All or Nothing

One Chef's Appetite for the Extreme

Jungleland

A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

Have Mother, Will Travel

A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World

Fit2Fat2Fit

The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose

Don't Try This at Home

A Year in the Life of Dave Navarro

Abraham Lincoln

Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The Riot Within

My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption

Unfaithful

A Translator's Memoir

I Yell Because I Care

The Passion and Politics of John Burton, California's Liberal Warrior

Robert Forster's Danger in the Past

Moving in Stereo

Ric Ocasek, the Driving Force of The Cars

Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies

The Curious Science of Our Bodies

Brainology - The Curious Science of Our Minds

The Curious Science of Our Minds

Pro Cycling on $10 a Day

From Fat Kid to Euro Pro

Beyond Contempt - The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial

The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial

YouTubers - How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars

How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars

Crossing Into Canada

Stories from Two Generations of US War Resisters

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

1815-1830

Your Perfect Partner Won't Be Perfect

A Truthful Dating Guide

An Integrated Boyhood

Coming of Age in White Cleveland

Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton

Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

Growing Up with Clemente

Dishing the Dirt - The Lives of London's House Cleaners

The Lives of London's House Cleaners

How to Apologise for Killing a Cat

Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion

Zelensky - A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader

A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader

Racing's Return from the Brink

The Incredible Comeback of Old Rosebud and American Horse Racing

June Mathis

The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary

Joachim Andersen

Flutist, Conductor, and Composer of More than the Etudes

The Nature of Pain

Roots, Recovery, and Redemption amid the Opioid Crisis

There's No Going Back

The Life and Work of Jonathan Demme

Nobody's Psychic

Finding & Losing Yourself

Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist

The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi

Ethel Barrymore

Shy Empress of the Footlights

City Lights

Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore

Saving Nate

Choosing Life after a Devastating Prenatal Diagnosis