Biography: adventurers and explorers

Carl Jung said, "e;Children are driven, unconsciously, in a direction that is intended to compensate for everything that was left unfulfilled in the life of their parents.

She has been called "e;one of the most richly idiomatic female pop singers of her generation"e; by Rolling Stone magazine.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN?

After skyrocketing to fame with their hit single "e;Uh Huh,"e; B2K seemed to have it all.

The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Sharing secrets and stories, tales from the track, and insights into her personal life, Danica reflects on her extraordinary rise from a ten-year-old go-kart champion to the most successful woman in the history of American racing.

Discover the defining moments and fondest memories of some of the world's most celebrated women!

Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years.

The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seenYou live in a city like New York.

"e;Life's too short.

Marissa Walsh's hilarious look at a life behind glass is both a poignant personal journey and a wry, insightful exploration of just what it means to be a glasses-wearing kind of girl.

Ruthless tells the explosive story of Jerry Heller's alliance with Eric Wright, aka Eazy-E, one of the legends of rap music and a founding member of N.

Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON.

An uplifting story of unlikely friendship and hope during the Iraq War.

In the burgeoning Hollywood club scene, where ecstasy dealers dine alongside celebrities, and illicit money bubbles up from below like the La Brea Tar Pits, a handsome double-murderer and ex-con of refined wit and taste charmed his way into young Hollywood's most elite social circles.

With his no-holds-barred delivery and unique worldview, Paul Mooney continues to stir anger, generate laughter, and provoke thought while attempting to tear down racial and social barriers through his juicy memoir about his years writing comedy with the likes of Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, the Wayans' Brothers, and Dave Chappelle.

In this energetic (Publishers Weekly) memoir, Victor Woods vividly recounts a trouble-filled and misunderstood coming-of-age in the suburbs of Chicago, the rollercoaster ride that led him to captain a multi-million dollar counterfeit scheme, and his life-changing stint in federal prison.

The delirious pursuit of love is a search that inevitably takes us all both down the well-beaten path and into new, uncharted territory.

On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return homechanging his life plans entirelyso that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform.

From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway spent much of his time patrolling the Gulf Stream and the waters off Cubas north shore in his fishing boat, Pilar.

Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklins autobiography is a lively, spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life, now a classic of world literature that is sure to inspire and delight readers everywhere.

People who don't have embarrassing stories are untrustworthy.

Alan King -- the beloved comic, actor, producer, author, philanthropist, and storyteller extraordinaire -- has compiled a wonderfully readable book about growing up Jewish, with totally original contributions by famous people.

In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West.

SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances.

In Losing Everything, his first book of nonfiction, acclaimed novelist David Lozell Martin tells his wildest, most outlandish story yethis own.

STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for.

Called "e;one of the rawest specimens of classic Nawlins spitfire you'll ever find"e; by Newsweek, and featured in Spike Lee's HBO documentary When the Levees Broke, Phyllis Montana-Leblanc gives an astounding and poignant account of how she and her husband lived through one of our nation's worst disasters, and continue to put their lives back together.

After her mother's death, Alyse Myers covets only one thing: a wooden box that sits in the back of a closet.

In this memoir that is ';nothing short of brilliant' (The New York Times Book Review), journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup.

From infamous rivalries and industry parties to intimate encounters with the hottest names in music, the first female editor-in-chief of The Source finally tells all about her years at the helm of the notorious bible of hip-hop.

Bob Dylan and his artistic accomplishments have been explored, examined, and dissected year in and year out for decades, and through almost every lens.

Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team.

In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the holocaust.

In Comeback Season, Cathy Day, author of the highly praised novel The Circus in Winter, tells the heartwarming story of how she got back in the game of love -- thanks to her favorite football team, the Indianapolis Colts.

Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside.

From the highly acclaimed author of Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam comes a taboo-breaking memoir about a Muslim girl who explores her freedom through the expression of her sensuality and sex, defying the cultural boundaries that denied her a full life.

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War.

The Genetic Strand is the story of a writer's investigation, using DNA science, into the tale of his family's origins.

People around the world know Dave Batista as World Wrestling Entertainment's "e;the Animal,"e; the rope-shaking, spine-busting World Heavyweight Champion, one of the most popular Superstars in recent years.

It took just 1.

"e;I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected.

Shant Kenderian's visit to Baghdad in 1980, at age seventeen, was supposed to be a short one -- just enough time to make peace with his estranged father before returning to his home in the United States.

"e;The American Dream is the fundamental story of this country, and my life is a grateful reflection of its reality.

A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who earned more than $100,000 a week selling cocaine in Harlem, New York, during the peak of America's "e;War on Drugs"e; between 1983 and 1990.

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at life in the rap world, from the woman at the heart of the Nas/Jay-Z feudone of the biggest beefs in hip-hop.

Award-winning journalist Marshall Fradys epic biography of Billy Graham, one of the most influential Christian evangelist preachers in America.

Hilarious.

"e;It all happened so fast that even now, a month later, I still have trouble believing it, and I have to tell myself over and over again: Leszli, you have been kidnapped.

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