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Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography

By: Kelley, Kitty

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Pocket: March 1992

Seller ID: 104730

ISBN: 0671646478

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Some spine wear and some yellowing of pages with age.
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Leonardo

By: Kemp, Martin

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 2004

Seller ID: 63738

ISBN: 0192805460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A true genius whose talents embraced painting, engineering, anatomy, and flight, Leonardo da Vinci was--and remains--an extraordinary human being, indeed one of the most intriguing figures in world history, as the recent success of The Da Vinci Code attests. Now, in this new biography, Martin Kemp explores the essential nature of this forever fascinating artist-engineer, both as an individual and as a historical phenomenon.
How can we best understand Leonardo? How did his mind work--was he prolific but scattered in his thinking, or is there a method in what often seems to be his madness? ...
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Shakedown: Exposing The Real Jesse Jackson

By: Ken Timmerman

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.: March 2002

Seller ID: 80637

ISBN: 0895261650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

J.D. Salinger a Life

By: Kenneth Slawenski

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Random House: January 2010

Seller ID: 44711

ISBN: 1611299055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Isabella: The Warrior Queen

By: Kirstin Downey

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Anchor: November 2015

Seller ID: 83389

ISBN: 0307742164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.

In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and Le n. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterr...
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John Candy; The Life of : Laughing on the Outside

By: Knelman, Martin

Price: $6.01

Publisher: Viking: January 1996

Seller ID: 85966

ISBN: 0670870277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

First Edition
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Education of a Wandering Man

By: L'Amour, Louis

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam: September 1996

Seller ID: 11258

ISBN: 0553286528

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the autho...
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The best of times

By: L. O Hooper

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hewitt House: January 1973

Seller ID: 78446

ISBN: B0006W0GUQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lovecraft: A Biography

By: L.Sprague De Camp

Price: $21.00

Publisher: New English Library Ltd: January 1976

Seller ID: 28969

ISBN: 0450028402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This is the published in England version.
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Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister

By: Lana Wood

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T): November 1986

Seller ID: 34881

ISBN: 0399129030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Books: A Memoir

By: Larry McMurtry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: N/A: July 2008

Seller ID: 14112

ISBN: 1416583343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

McMurtry, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, returns with a fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare and antiquarian books.
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Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty

By: Laurence Leamer

Price: $7.00

Publisher: William Morrow: March 2004

Seller ID: 29862

ISBN: 006620965X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the renowned biographer and national bestselling author of The Kennedy Women and The Kennedy Men comes the third volume in the epic multigenerational history of America's first family.

Sons of Camelot is the compelling story of the Kennedy sons and grandsons in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It is the most intimate biography ever written about the Kennedys, with the cooperation of family and friends at a moment when they are ready to talk with insight and depth about their lives. Among the many stunning portraits in the...
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Even This I Get to Experience

By: Lear, Norman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 2015

Seller ID: 61078

ISBN: 0143127969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written . . . an absolute treasure." --Booklist (starred review)

In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created, or developed more than a hundred shows; had nine on the air at the same time; founded the 300,000-member liberal advocacy group People For the American Way; was labeled the "no. 1 enemy of the American family" by Jerry Falwell; made it onto Richard Nixon's "Enemies List"; was presented with the ...
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Joe Gould's Teeth

By: Lepore, Jill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf: May 2016

Seller ID: 84467

ISBN: 1101947586

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time."
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, and Ezra Pound. Gould began his life's work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down ...
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Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

By: Loretta Lynn

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Henry Regnery: March 1976

Seller ID: 34883

ISBN: 0809281228

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Ulysses S. Grant: True Stories of Great Americans

By: Lovell Coombs

Price: $15.01

Publisher: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., Cleveland, OH: January 1925

Seller ID: 73195

ISBN: B00F1ZPB6M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

No dust jacket, green cloth boards. Pages and spine are in good shape.
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Pat Burns : Cattle King

By: MacEwan, Grant

Price: $15.01

Publisher: Western Producer Prairie Books: January 1979

Seller ID: 31833

ISBN: 0888330359

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

shelve wear on the cover , Book has shelve wear on corners of spine and along edges of spine. book.
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Dance While You Can: On Relationships, Feelings and Family

By: Maclaine, Shirley

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam: July 1992

Seller ID: 95252

ISBN: 0553297864

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In her most revealing memoir yet, Shirely Maclaine shares deeply personal stories about her family: her parents, her brother, and her only daughter--and about her life in the movies over four decades.

"On the deepest, most personal level, I needed to work out who my parents were and what they had been to me. I knew that I couldn't get on with my work and the rest of my life until I had."--Shirley MacLaine
An extraordinary woman whose energy, drive, and talent are legendary, Shirley MacLaine still moves audiences to laughter an...
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Prague Winter

By: Madeleine Albright

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper: April 2012

Seller ID: 45050

ISBN: 0062030310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Drawing on her own memory, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring.
Before she turned twelve, Madeleine Albright's life was shaken by some of the most cataclysmic events of the 20^th century: the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the attempted genocide of European Jewry, the allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism,...
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Family Money

By: Mair, George

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pinnacle: May 1994

Seller ID: 72739

ISBN: 0786000104

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Biography