Category: Biography

Losing Tim is a memoir by a mother about a soldier son who killed himself. It's not an easy read. But it's a beautiful one. Burroway, a National Book Award nominee, welcomes readers to grieve along with her, while also providing a lens into how soldiers, and military contractors, like her son, are changed by their combat experiences. Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, a highly acclaimed volume on PTSD, and a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, comments in the foreword, ''To me, the pain recalls Homer's Iliad, in which, as James Tatum puts it...
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Billy Graham: God's Ambassador

By: Busby, Russ

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : January 1999

Seller ID: 203774

ISBN-13: 9780737000658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Uses photographs and selections from Billy Graham's sermons and speeches to trace his career as an evangelist.
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Buseyisms: Gary Busey's Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth

By: Busey, Gary,Sampson, Steffanie

Price: $8.01

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : September 2018

Seller ID: 148484

ISBN-13: 9781250161741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

Stated first edition.
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

By: Bush Hager, Jenna,Bush, Barbara Pierce

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : October 2018

Seller ID: 111841

ISBN-13: 9781538711422

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The former first daughters share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond. Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In Sisters First, ...
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Barbara Bush: A Memoir

By: Bush, Barbara

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Guideposts : September 1994

Seller ID: 145841

ISBN-13: 9780025196353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

First edition by number code. Dust jacket has shelf wear.
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Barbara Bush: A Memoir

By: Bush, Barbara

Price: $3.25

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks : November 1995

Seller ID: 171852

ISBN-13: 9780312956646

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Known for her wit, honesty, and compassion, Barbara Bush has won admirers the world over. Now, in this fascinating autobiography, the former First Lady talks candidly about: -Growing up privileged and meeting George Bush-Life as a young bride and mother in West Texas-How she got through the tragedy of her little girl's death-Her years in public life in Washington, New York and China-The world of Washington politics and the many famous figures she's met-What it was like behind the scenes of the Persian Gulf conflict and the end of the Cold War-Her role as the nation's leading literacy champion-...
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41: A Portrait of My Father

By: Bush, George W.

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Crown Publishers : November 2014

Seller ID: 188727

ISBN-13: 9780553447781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. A unique and intimate biography, the book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering wo...
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Spoken from the Heart

By: Bush, Laura

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scribner : May 2010

Seller ID: 189272

ISBN-13: 9781439155202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Front page is ripped out (does not affect readability of text). Happens to be a first edition.
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Gorbachev: A Biography

By: Butson, Thomas G.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Stein & Day Pub : August 1986

Seller ID: 95060

ISBN-13: 9780812862492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Third Printing, 1985. Dust jacket has shelf wear.
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Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life

By: Bündchen, Gisele

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Avery : October 2018

Seller ID: 201201

ISBN-13: 9780525538646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

First edition by number code. Dust jacket has shelf wear.
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Inside: A Public and Private Life

By: Califano, Joseph A.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs : March 2004

Seller ID: 38381

ISBN-13: 9781586482305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Joe Califano grew up in a tight-knit working class family in Depression-era Brooklyn. His parents instilled in their son a work ethic, sense of self, and devotion to Church that stayed with him as he rose through the ranks of America's ruling class. From Jesuit undergraduate schools to Harvard Law, influential law firms, Robert McNamara's Pentagon, Lyndon Johnson's White House, and Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, Califano was hard charging, effective, and committed to his causes--whether that meant reforming the military, working for equal rights for all, his struggle to be a committed Catholic in Ame...
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness

By: Campbell, James

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Atria Books : September 2005

Seller ID: 136328

ISBN-13: 9780743453141

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The inspiration for The Last Alaskans--the eight-part documentary series on the Discovery Channel Called " one of] the greatest life-or-death-tales ever told" (Esquire), James Campbell's inimitable insider account of a family's nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness "is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer's classic Into the Wild], and it stands too, as a kind of testament to the rough beauty of improbably wild dreams" (Men's Journal). Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently a...
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness

By: Campbell, James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Atria : May 2004

Seller ID: 196455

ISBN-13: 9780743453134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Former library copy with identifying labels.
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Patrick Henry: Patriot and Statesman

By: Campbell, Norine Dickson

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Devin-Adair Pub : January 1969

Seller ID: 207110

ISBN-13: 9780815965015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History

By: Cannadine, David

Price: $7.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : April 1993

Seller ID: 38393

ISBN-13: 9780393035285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dust jacket has some shelf wear.
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American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town Childhood

By: Cantwell, Mary

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House : May 1992

Seller ID: 139598

ISBN-13: 9780394575025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Speaking With Strangers

By: Cantwell, Mary

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : April 1998

Seller ID: 139621

ISBN-13: 9780395827512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mary Cantwell's supple, seductive voice speaks out in her most revealing memoir, the conclusion of a trilogy about an American woman with one foot in her past and the other, warily, in her present. AMERICAN GIRL evoked the delights of her early youth in a small New England town. MANHATTAN WHEN I WAS YOUNG told of her marriage and children, her blossoming career in New York, and the decline of that marriage. In SPEAKING WITH STRANGERS she finds herself alone: a single mother in the big city, bereft of her husband if bolstered by friends, professionally successful if personally sad.. She took to...
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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By: Carole Radziwill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scribner : September 2005

Seller ID: 77000

ISBN-13: 9780743276948

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On a clear summer night in July 1999, a small plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, carrying John Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister Laura. Three weeks later, John's cousin Anthony Radziwill died of cancer. In this moving and candid memoir, Carole Radziwill, Anthony's widow, tells her story.
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Category: Biography