Biographies & True Stories Books

The memories, dreams and reflections of a modern lama born in the West who became heir to the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.River of Memory: Dharma Chronicles tells the remarkable story of the scholar and meditation master Lama Jampa Thaye one of the...

A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been hot sellers...

How does a secular, non-practising Jew who has lived most of her life outside the Jewish communitysuddenly find herself in the front rows of a Nazi war crimes tribunal?In 2015, the award-winning writer Judith Kalman was invited to Lneburg to testify at...

Now a film starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Greg Kinnear.Jennifer Hosten went to the 1970 Miss World pageant on a lark, representing the tiny Caribbean Island of Grenada, and came home with the crown and a place in history. What was supposed...

Dispatches from modern motherhood by a reluctant suburbaniteSend Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on the joys, struggles, and complexities of motherhood.These essays touch on the major milestones...

Reckon, "Black Joy: 2022 Best of Books""Those of us who have been following her work for a while have known Reid would come flying out of the gates and, well, here is the emphatic proof."-Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist for Zorrie Thotis a...

Cops on bikes, undercover security in the supermarket, TSA agents wondering why there appears to be a gun in his bag, Keith Lowell Jensen has a lot of run-ins with all manner of cops. Sometimes they arrest him. Sometimes they beat him up and arrest him...

Up-Rooted: Climbing Through Family Chaos details the conflict in T.J. Kyri's life, from marriage to adoption to divorce, despite being a conflict resolution professional. It describes her harrowing mission to adopt her older daughters from Ukraine and...

When the Bough Breaks, True Stories of Hope and Encouragement of Mothers Who Have Had to Reinvent Their Relationships with Their Children, seeks to shed light on that moment when Mom has to reach into the well of courage and ask for outside help.

The beard was never far from my mind. Twice daily, I shaved. I blended foundation into my skin with a practiced touch. I hoped for the miracle that never showed its face: smooth skin instead of the prickly surface I felt every time I ran my hand across...

"I loved-and to a slightly uncomfortable degree related to-this book."Charles Bethea, staff writer at The New YorkerFunny, perceptive, and deeply personal, Mediocre Monk follows Grant Lindsley's rocky journey toward spiritual growth-one that ultimately...

IPPY Awards Gold Medal Winner in the memoir categoryColorado Independent Book Publishers Association (CIPA) Gold Medal Winner in the memoir categoryNational Indie Excellence Awards finalist in the new non-fiction categoryA deeply personal memoir about...

Nationally regarded trial attorney and media personality Brian Claypool weaves together his personal story of trauma and his experiences litigating notorious child abuse cases to show how our cultural code of silence endangers children and what we can do...

Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face...

True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural Revolution.A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family...

Pairing history's 100 greatest rock stars with recipes for their iconic drink of choice, How to Drink Like a Rock Star is the perfect guide to summoning the muse for music fans, rock and roll bartenders, and cocktail enthusiasts.Have you longed for a...

From growing up with learning and reading disabilities, to barely passing public high school, to multiple suicide attempts, to living on the streets and on welfare-Darren Jacklin was fated for failure.Throughout his upbringing he was repeatedly told that...

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist Clara Johnson Award FinalistAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.In 2015, increasing...

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a...

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading the West...

An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all.Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded...

HONORABLE MENTION, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Autobiography & Memoir!Lifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of The Yippies, a 1960s anti-war satirical protest group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvement with the...

As necessary conversations about racism, state violence, and the legacy of American slavery continue, it is important to consider the myriad forms of violence that living in a racialized society can take. In We Are Bridges, Cassandra Lane explores the...

Through the lens of horror - from Halloween to Hereditary - queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community:...

In this disarming and candid memoir, cultural critic Clarkisha Kent unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you're a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity.There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal...

Inspirational Wisdom for Every Day in a Classic Daybook-"An excellent gift . . . A fine inspirational" (Midwest Book Review)During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and...

A delightful graphic memoir told in photographs. Ype is a gay man living in Amsterdam with his boyfriend Nico. When asked by Nico to accompany him on a work trip to America, Ype must confront his deep fear of flying. While doing so, Ype finds he also has...

A unique perspective on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the beloved icon of many people in the LGBTQ community and beyond. Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is obsessed with Princess Diana, in the specific, laser-focused way an autistic person can be. This...

What would life feel like without fear and oppression? Is it possible to find solace in the power of chosen family, underground art collectives, and ultimately revolution? Set in Beirut, Lebanon, a city once known to be a vibrant cultural center of the...

A rough-and-tumble Iraq War veteran is young and in love, and the last thing on his mind is food and the ethics of eating meat. But when his girlfriend becomes a vegetarian and animal rights activist, suddenly food is all he thinks about. A true story of...

"Unique in both format and content, this important book is a first choice to help diversify teen graphic nonfiction collections." -Starred Review, School Library Journal Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the...

"We were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive...

A moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperer-now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot.Stany Nyandwi's gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned...

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer androle modelwho is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements asthe first woman tocommand an American space mission as well as...

Winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Loved Ones presents an intimate portrait of family grief, for fans of Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder and Kristin Prevallet's I, AfterlifeThere are so many ways to bury the dead. In an autobiographical series of...

In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find Caravaggio at an...

Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative NonfictionWinner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry CriticismOptic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture...

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, "CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and...

What drives serial killers to commit their horrific crimes? Are sex crimes really motivated by sexual desire? Why do some killers stop killing, while others escalate?The science of personality theory has advanced dramatically in recent years, shedding...

A classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats.Originally published as two separate volumes in 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories edited and compiled W. B. Yeats is the perfect...

"A thoughtful, compelling reexamination of an intriguing story of fatal obsession and its enduring mysteries."-Kirkus Reviews "Well-researched and a page turner..."-Library Journal The disappearance of atwenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts...

"The masterful art of chess, Kung-fu sword play, and the sweet science of boxing are all hip-hop expressions that connect us universally.Beatboxingtells the story. It's razor sharp."-Masta Killa, Wu-Tang Clan"I love howTodd Snyder's brain works. Like...

The battle between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns is remembered as one of the greatest fights of all time. But in the months before the two finally collided on April 15, 1985, there was a feeling in the air that boxing was in trouble. The...

In Shot at a Brothel, Patrick Connor reveals the salacious story of how handsome, playful, heavyweight boxer Oscar 'Ringo' Bonavena wound up murdered outside of an infamous Nevada brothel, and why.Argentine heavyweight Oscar...

Co-op advertising available for booksellers willing to carry other titles in the Hamilcar Noir series. On November 12 2019 the first two volumes in this hard-hitting true crime series publish together. Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero...

In (Low)life, Charles Farrell lets the public in on his gripping, harrowing, rich, and often amusing life that transverses his path from a teenage jazz prodigy, to mob-involved boxing fight-fixer, to his business partnership with the legendary Floyd...

"Stradley [has]...a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this...tragic figure should be captivated. A gritty, absorbing account of a boxer who couldn't defeat his own inner demons...

Macho Time will be the first definitive biography of Hector Camacho Sr., who lived a life as fast as his fists flew in the ring. Camacho's son, Hector Camacho Jr., also a professional boxer, has worked closely with author Christian Giudice to give him...