Biographies and Memoirs
Actors, Writers and other Entertainers
I Am Jackie Chan: My
Life in Action (1998) Jackie Chan, Long Cheng
Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story
(2017) Steven Curtis Chapman and Ken
Abraham
What's So Funny?: My
Hilarious Life (2013) Tim Conway and
Jane Scovell
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006) Neal Gabler
A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010)
Michael J. Fox
Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story (2009) Paul J. Batura, Mike Huckabee
Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography (1998) Katherine Ramsland
This Is Your Captain
Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life (2013) Gavin MacLeod
Groucho and Me (1959) Groucho Marx
Against All Odds: My
Story(2004) Chuck Norris
When Character Was King:
A Story of Ronald Reagan (2001) Peggy
Noonan
A Voice Undefeated
(2014) Collin Raye
Happy, Happy, Happy
(2013) Phil Robertson
Live Original: How the
Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values
(2014) Sadie Robertson
Big Russ and Me:
Father and Son: Lessons of Life (2004) Tim
Russert
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2008) David Michaelis
Get a Life! (1999) William Shatner and Chrisk Kreski
Weird Al: The Book
(2012) Nathan Rabin and Al Yankovic
Just a Geek: Unflinchingly
honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship
Enterprise (2004) Wil Wheaton
(Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman
The Bassoon King: My
Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy (2015) Rainn
Wilson
ANIMALS
Marley and Me: Life
and Love With the World's Worst Dog (2005) John
Grogan
Dewey: The Small-Town
Library Cat Who Touched the World (Dewey
Readmore)
(2008) Vicki Myron, Bret Witter (Contributor)
ATHLETES
Courage to Soar (with
Bonus Content): A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance (2016)
Simone Biles and Mary Lou Retton
Grace, Gold, and Glory
My Leap of Faith (2012) Gabrielle
Douglas and Michelle Burford
Winning Balance: What
I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams (2012)
Shawn Johnson and Nancy French
Through My Eyes (2011)
Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker
Crazy Is My
Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking
the (2017) A.J. Mendez Brooks
CHILDHOOD DIFFICULTIES
Josiah's Fire: Autism
Stole His Words, God Gave Him a Voice (2016)
Tahni Cullen and Cheryl Ricker
Go Ask Alice (1971) James Jennings
Louder Than Words: A
Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (2007) Jenny
McCarthy
The Reason I Jump: The
Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism (2013)
Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell
Dave Pelzer
A Child Called
"It": One Child's Courage to Survive - Paperback (1995)
The Lost Boy: A Foster
Child's Search for the Love of a Family (1997)
Look Me in the Eye: My
Life with Asperger's (2007) John Elder
Robison
The Glass Castle: A
Memoir (2005) Jeannette Walls
Classic Bios
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Anne Frank
Ben Franklin (1791)
Twelve Years a Slave
(1853) Solomon Northup
Up From Slavery (1900)
Booker T. Washington
The Night Trilogy:
Night, Dawn, the Accident (1962) Elie
Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
Discoveries and Inventions
The Dinosaur Hunters:
A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
(2012) Deborah
Cadbury
The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks (2010)Rebecca Skloot
The Professor and the
Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English
The Double Helix
(1968) James D. Watson
Dictionary (1998) Simon Winchester
ESCAPING ISLAM
They Say We Are
Infidels: On the Run from ISIS with Persecuted Christians in the Middle East
(2017) Mindy Belz
Families
The Lucky Few: Finding
God's Best in the Most Unlikely Places (2017)
Heather Avis and New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst
Who gets the
drumstick? the story of the Beardsley family (1965) Helen Brandmeir Beardsley
Michelle Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar
Duggars: 20 and
Counting!: Raising One of America's Largest Families--How they Do It (2008)
A Love That Multiplies: An Up-Close View of
How They Make it Work (2011)
Growing Up Duggar:
It's All About Relationships (2013) Jana Duggar, Jill Duggar, Jessa Duggar
World’s Strongest
Librarian (2013) Josh Hanagarne
Cheaper by the Dozen (1948)
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine
Gilbreth Carey
FAMOUS PEOPLE
Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) Walter
Isaacson
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible
Voyage (2014) Alfred Lansing
Bergoglio's List: How a Young Francis
Defied a Dictatorship and Saved Dozens of Lives
(2014) Nello Scavo
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
(1949) Maria Augusta von Trapp
FICTIONAL
Superman: the
High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero (2012) Larry Tye
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise
of Nerd Culture (2016) Glen Weldon
Christopher McDougall
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A
Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It
Lynne M. Thomas
(2010) (Editor),
HISTORICAL
The Boys in the Boat: Nine
Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
(2013) Daniel James Brown
The Trigger: Hunting
the Assassin Who Brought the World to War (2014) Tim Butcher
Lincoln (1996) David Herbert Donald
Redemption
at Hacksaw Ridge: The gripping true story that inspired the movie (2016)
Booton
Herndon
Unbroken: A World War
II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010) Laura Hillenbrand
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly
Obsession in the Amazon (2009) David
Grann
Under the Banner of Heaven: A
Story of Violent Faith (2003) Jon
Krakauer
The Devil in the White
City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America (2004)
Erik Larson
The Boy on the Wooden
Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . .on Schindler's List (2013)
Leon Leyson
Bill O'Reilly
Killing Lincoln: The
Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (2011)
Lincoln's Last Days:
The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (2012)
Killing Kennedy: The
End of Camelot. (2012)
Kennedy's Last Days:
The Assassination That Defined a Generation (2013
Killing Jesus: A
History (2013
The Last Days of
Jesus: His Life and Times (2014)
Killing Patton: The
Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (2014
Bill O'Reilly's
Legends and Lies: The Real West (2015)
Hitler's Last Days:
The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator (2015
Killing Reagan: The
Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (2015)
The Day the President
Was Shot (2016)
Killing the Rising
Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan(2016)..
Humorous
What Time Is It? You
Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
(2010) Yogi Berra and Dave Kaplan
Running with Scissors
(2002) Augusten Burroughs
Ed Stivender
Raised Catholic (Can
You Tell?) (American Storytelling)(1992)
Still Catholic: After
all these Fears (American Storytelling)(1997)
You're Never Weird on
the Internet (Almost) (2015) Felicia Day
Joss Whedon (Foreword)
INSPIRATIONAL
Soul Surfer: A True
Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (2004)
Bethany Hamilton and Sheryl Berk
Breakfast at Sally's:
One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey (2008) Richard LeMieux and Michael
Gordon
Hug Everyone You Know:
A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer (October 3, 2017)
Antoinette Truglio Martin
I Beat the Odds: From
Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond (2010) Michael Oher
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of
the Motion Picture 127 Hours (2004)
Aron Ralston
Once Upon A Wish: True
Inspirational Stories of Make-A-Wish Children (2013)
Frank Shankwitz and Rachelle Sparks
Sully: My Search for
What Really Matters (2009) Chesley B.
Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
I Am Malala (2013) Malala Yousafzai
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and
Philosophical Advice (2017) Colum McCann
Sebastian Junger
The Perfect Storm (1997)
Fire (2001)
A Death in Belmont (2006)
Restrepo (2010)
War (2010)
A World Made of Blood (2012)
Korengal (2014)
Tribe (2016)
Miraculous
Heaven is for Real: A
Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
(2010) Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent
Miracles from Heaven:
A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing
(2015) Christy Beam
Regular People
The Corfu Trilogy (The
Corfu Trilogy #1-3) (2006) Gerald Durrell
Eat, Pray, Love: One
Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (2006)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes. A memoir (1996)
'Tis. A memoir (1999)
Teacher Man. A memoir
(2005)
The Magnolia Story
(2016) Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines
A Long Way Home: A
Memoir (2014) Saroo Brierley
Shoot Like a Girl: One
Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
(2017) Mary Jennings Hegar
The Liars' Club (1995) Mary Karr
Julie and Julia: 365
Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage,
Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living (2005) Julie Powell
Name All the Animals:
A Memoir (2004) Alison Smith
Bleaker House: Chasing
My Novel to the End of the World (2017) Nell Stevens
Wild: From Lost to Found
on the Pacific Crest Trail (2010) Cheryl Strayed
Born for Life: A Midwife's
Story (2015) Julie Watson
SURVIVIAL
Nothing to Envy:
Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009) Barbara
Demick
Escape (2007) Triumph
(2010) Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer
Touching the Void: The
True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (1988) Joe Simpson
Tragedies
Columbine (2009) Dave
Cullen
Think No Evil: Inside
the Story of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting...and Beyond (2009)
Jonas Beiler and Shawn Smucker
Let's Roll!: Ordinary
People, Extraordinary Courage (2002) Lisa
Beamer and Ken Abraham
She Said Yes: The
Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall (1999) M. Bernall
The Book of Mychal:
The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge (2008) Michael Daly
Choosing Hope: Moving Forward
from Life's Darkest Hours (2015) Kaitlin
Roig-DeBellis and Robin Gaby Fisher
Granite Mountain: The
Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters
Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice (2017) Brendan
McDonough (Author), Stephan Talty (Contributor)
Rachel's Tears: 10th
Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott (1999)
Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve
Rabey
An Unseen Angel: A
Mother’s Story of Healing and Hope After Sandy Hook(2017) Alissa Parker
First They Killed My
Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
Catch Me If You Can:
The True Story of a Real Fake (1980) Frank
W. Abagnale
The Fish That Ate the
Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King (2012) Rich Cohen
Surely You're Joking,
Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
(1984) Richard Feynman
Born to Run: A Hidden
Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (2009) Christopher McDougall
WRITING PIONERS & Producers
Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing Hardcover
(2013) by Leonard S. Marcus
John Newbery and the Story of the Newbery Medal (2003) by Russell Roberts
The man From Mars Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey (2013)
Fred Nadis
The Boy Who Loved Batman:
A Memoir (2011) Michael E. Uslan
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