Biography: historical, political and military

In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader.

Men whisper of the secret things.

Hope and Honor is a powerful and dramatic memoir that shows how the will to live—so painfully refined in the fires of that long-ago death camp—was forged, at last, into truth of soul and wisdom of the heart.

From her thought provoking, ';All of Mississippi, ain't Mississippi.

Author Sankalan was in the sixth grade when his guardians threw him out of their government-owned house in the picturesque community of Germany, Kakata, Liberia, West Africa.

'A masterpiece which delights from first page to last.

In 2016, I was diagnosed with stage 4 chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Victoria's Testimony; Walking Forward Looking Back Volume 1 is an autobiography series that walks you through the day-to-day triumphs and challenges of a lost child that had odds against her, but through them all, God provided a way for her to always come out of each situation victorious.

Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer.

It is time.

Bob survived his premature birth after sharing the womb with his dead, decomposing twin.

My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

Jeff Struecker, a "e;Black Hawk Down"e; hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.

An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's fatherThe Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources.

Eastern Starlight, a British Girl's Memoir of Warlord China by Jean Elder with Reg Mitchell__________________________________

Kill the Gringo is the wide-ranging, action-packed memoir of Jack Hood Vaughn, whose career in diplomacy, social advocacy and conservation spanned more than 25 jobs and 11 countries.

The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical worldHer father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king.

Diese literarisch-biografische zweisprachige Erzählung gibt Jeanne d'Arc eine Stimme – die Stimme eines Menschen, nicht eines Mythos.