Biographies & True Stories Books

A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winner.As one of the great writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century, Harlan...

Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson inA Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure ofThe Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A...

Cabaret has historically existed on the fringes, populated by those who find themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, falling outside of conventional society. It pushes the boundaries of gender, politics, identity, power, and social norms. It's live and...

'A WONDERFUL READ...Christine's deep love for turtles comes through on each page.' CRAIG FOSTER, MY OCTOPUS TEACHER 'Will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.' DR. JANE GOODALLFilled with...

Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey - all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the Beatles...

A culmination of nearly six decades of writing from the mind of iconoclastic film, literary, and music critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.Looking back at his more than 50 years of writing, where many flights of fancy and fantasy prove to suggest certain duties as...

'Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades - he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies...better than anyone...

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter profiles: romance scammers beware, you have met your match!Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional...

In Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, editor Roger Witten takes us behind the scenes of some of the most fascinating court cases of the last few decades, while introducing us to the sometimes strange, and sometimes comical situations...

At last! Godine found a use for the word "sciolist" in a subtitle! This is a throwback to Godine's core of erudition on obscure but fascinating subjects.Unique history of lexicographers and the dictionaries they created. Abundantly illustrated.Author,...

In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes.His roving curiosity takes us from his early life in Delhi to his years as a student in...

"A master class in how to be a person." --Joanna Rakoff, bestselling author of My Salinger Year"Astonishing...one of the most moving memoirs I've read." --Caroline Leavitt, best-selling author of With or Without You and Days of Wonder. In Breath Taking:...

One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring!Featured in Alta Magazine's New Books for May!Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints...

Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. He is renowned for his fighting prowess and famous for having never having been defeated. Then he mysteriously disappeared at the relatively young age of 29 to meditate and study.This book tells...

Philip K. Dick struggled to make a living during his lifetime, but his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, John Woo and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of...

A collaborative book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos. Roger Mooking is well-known as a celebrity chef and the host of such television shows as the Cooking Channel's Man Fire Food and Everyday Exotic; he is...

A wide-ranging anthology of personal essays from diverse voices about their relationships to the fibre arts. Sometimes, the reliability of a knit stitch, the steady rocking of a quilting needle, the solid structure of a loom, is all you have. During the...

'Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.' John Vaillant, author of Fire WeatherThe essays in...

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...

Discover the truth of what happens when true believers go too far with the shocking stories of the world's most known and horrific cults like The Order of the Solar Temple and the NXIVM Cult.Cults have been around for centuries, and many have been dubbed...

Take a deep dive into the rise and fall of some of the most notorious serial killers of the '80s, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Joseph James DeAngelo, Dennis Lynn Rader, and the Night Stalker.Neon leg warmers, big hair, rock band T-shirts, and mix tapes -...

April 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us -Ms. MagazineThis autobiographically-inspired graphic novel explores mental health and schizophrenia in a surprising and emotionally honest story with a fantastical cast of animal characters.Fox Foxerson's got a new...

"Caniff visualized his setup with a cinematic flair that remains thrilling because it is played straight." -The New Yorker"Arguably the greatest of all adventure strips." - The WashingtonPostThe saga continues inTerry and the PiratesVolume 6, reproduced...

"Before Caniff introduced the Dragon Lady to Pat Ryan, before Burma and Raven Sherman and NormandieDrake fell for our hero, there was not a hint of sex-real sex-to be found in the American newspaper strip. Caniff changed all that." - Jules FeifferThe...

Volume 2 of this landmark series-reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs-features the iconic 1936 daily and Sunday adventures, which continue their separate paths until the end of August when the stories-and cast of...

If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman's obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that...

Skid Dogs is araw and riveting debut memoir about coming of age during the casual oppression of '90s rape culture and the passionate tumult of teenage friendships."I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." -Ani DiFranco"I fell...

Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah calan, affectionately known as "Apo." Highly regarded around the world, calan led the Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978...

A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belongProlific cookbook author Brigit Binns' coming-of-age memoir-co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic...

'Tjernshaugen writes in an easy-to-read style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior.' - Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8An...

'The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.' - NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger'The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane,...

Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's...

Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's deep past? How is the world's most expensive - and explosive - substance made?Great science writing offers fascinating insights into our...

Now in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine-among others.Bad Indians-part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir-is essential reading for anyone seeking to...

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for...

The riveting story of how the murder of prostitute Vivian Gordon brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and an end to the dominance of Tammany Hall."Propulsive. . . . Unlike the sensationalist reporters of the era, Wolraich manages to...

Whether it's man's best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We're happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion's share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in...

Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming.Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence, Byron, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dorothy Parker, A. N. Wilson,...

A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she...

**Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize**A comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the authoritarian president of Turkey.One of the world's most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdoan has ruled over Turkey as either...

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...

Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until...

In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came...

Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. It features previously published stories from both authors, along with a new novella by Kaaron Warren and four new stories by...

**Shortlisted, The Barbellion Prize****Shortlisted, The Irish Book Awards**A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK.A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend.Two ungendered characters contest...

Follow the remarkable journey of a trailblazing American leader, Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Antonia Novellois a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring...

This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young black and poor woman living in an America marked by segregation.This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement.This is the story of a long career, that...

One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting...