Biographies

Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime Sarah Smiley

DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS: ONE MILITARY FAMILY, ONE YEAR OF HEROES, AND LESSONS FOR A LIFETIME is a warm, wonderful story of a military family inviting fifty-two guests to dinner over a year's time while their father/husband was deployed as a Navy pilot. Weekly fill-ins ran the gamut from U.S. Senators to ninety-four-...

Dimestore: A Writer's Life Lee Smith

DIME STORE: A WRITER'S LIFE is a delisious look at America's recent past, and the delightful biography of one of the South's most beloved writers. Lee Smith tells all in a manner that is poignant and wise, and most of all enlightening and humorous. his title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic,...

Spelling It Like It Is Tori Spelling

SPELLING IT LIKE IT IS truly is as the title states, a no-holds-barred open book on the television star's life. Included are her own issues bared for all, but there is also a glimpse into her relationship with her father, the famous producer, Aaron Spelling.

 

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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town Warren St. John

OUTCASTS UNITED: A REFUGEE TEAM, AN AMERICAN TOWN reads more like fiction than the true story of a Jordanian woman in a small Southern town taking a group of refugees from a hundred countries and creating a force in the soccer world. More importantly, assimilating these disparate foreigners into American society - as...

Under a Rock Chris Stein

UNDER A ROCK is the nothing spared memoir of the co-founder of Blondie. Chris Stein has had amazing success as a songwriter/singer/guitarist, and has shown his photography in museums around the world. He has also collaborated with Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and many more.

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The Last Season Stuart Stevens

THE LAST SEASON: A FATHER, A SON, AND A LIFETIME OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL is a poignant, warm, heartfelt and beautiful story of a son taking his elderly father to a season of Ole Miss football games. The pages of this wonderful book alternate between tear drops and belly laughs.

 

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Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story Shelley Stewart

MATTIE C.'S BOY: THE SHELLEY STEWART STORY is the most remarkable Rags-to-Riches biography in the store. Shelley Stewart created one of America's leading marketing firms with clients like Honda, Verizon, The NBA AMEX Card and on and on. However, as a young African-American boy in the South in the 1940s...

When I Was Your Age Kenan Thompson

WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE is a salute to growing up and getting older & wiser. It is heartwarming and a delightful look at the beloved, longest-serving actor on Saturday Night Live.

 

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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free Héctor Tobar

DEEP DOWN DARK: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF 33 MEN BURIED IN A CHILEAN MINE, AND THE MIRACLE THAT SET THEM FREE is the exclusive account the victims shared of their sixty-nine days beneath thousands of feet of rock.

 

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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Natasha Trethewey
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