Biographies & True Stories Books

A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a commitment. When Laraine Herring receives an unexpected colon cancer diagnosis, her father, thirty years dead, returns to her as a raven, setting off a magical journey into complicated grief,...

Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology edited by James Aquilone and featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others.Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr...

Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells hisorigin story: how Frank Feranna becameNikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinatingjourney from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mtley Cre...

A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyerThe oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his...

God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine.Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the...

Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable quotes from one of the most quoted writers in American literature. One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, Jack Kerouac helped an entire generation of post-WWII Americans...

'Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.'In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking...

Everything in author David Winkler's life reads like a "Once Upon a Time in Beverly Hills" fairytale. A film producer of titles such as theCreedfranchise, the fifty-three-year-old sits on the top tier of his profession, enjoys a wonderful relationship...

For the first time, the choreographer of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bjrk and many others reveals stage stories through his extraordinary journey.Vincent Paterson began his professional dancing career late in life. It would take an exceptional turn when he...

In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, John Corabi recounts his life from the mean streets of Philadelphia to the Sunset Strip. Take a look behind the scenes at Corabi's time fronting Mtley Cre, Union, and The Dead Daisies, as well as his time playing rhythm...

Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world's biggest stages. His long-awaited...

In Double Talkin' Jive legendary drummer Matt Sorum takes music lovers behind the scenes of a remarkable life in rock. Sorum, whose albums have sold tens of millions of copies around the world, provides an honest, engaging account of the highs and lows...

If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my...

A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War,...

Corey Taylor from Slipknot wrote the introductionJason Christopher plays Corey Taylor's solo band, and they tour all over the world together regularlyBooks will be promoted on their tourJason Christopher self-published a book called Rogue to Nowhere and...

Karmen Karma is known as a contract star on the popular porn site BrazzersShe has 530k twitter followersShe has 322k Instagram followersShe will be promoting to all of her social mediaEvents in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and moreInterviews with adult film...

The Gamesmaster is a narrative memoir chronicling the life and career of Flint Dille. And while he isn't exactly a household name, you almost certainly know his work-which includes credits from some of the most important and successful entertainment...

The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and...

WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! "Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."-Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient...

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...

"Celebratory, even radical"-The New Yorker"Monumental"-HyperallergicWe Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half...

From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostrm Knausgrd was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at this "factory" progressed, the writer's memories began to disappear. What good is a writer...

A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey - through pregnancy, the mothering of...

June 1, 1943, Eastern Poland. Within just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the survivors was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers,...

The most hated woman in Belgium sits in her prison cell preparing for imminent release. Between brief interludes of counsel from Sister Virginie and Anouk, the prison psychiatrist, Odette is left alone to labor through the memories of her former life...

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in...

'Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.' - Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to...

In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding...

In this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father's cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence.She begins...

In a series of journal entries-some original passages, others revisited and expanded in retrospect-Cherri Moraga details her experiences with pregnancy, birth, and the early years of lesbian parenting.With the premature birth of her son-when HIV-related...

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists' today. Rodney lived through the failed though...

In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago's West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his...

Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an...

Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and...

Mama Phife Represents is an arresting document of the body's lowest depth of hurt, from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to Type 1 diabetes at the height of his musical career. It is a love letter from a grieving mother to her child.

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays.Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend...

This collection will be of interest to all who want to dive deeper into one of the 20th centuries most brilliant women revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg. Publication will coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death in 1919. Renewed attention to the...

This is the story of how Zionism, supported by Americanism, created a modern miracle-told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history.And None Shall Make Them Afraid presents eight historic figures-four from...

Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education."Part adventure tale, part manifesto,...

In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena."Abrilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action."-Victor...

John Quincy Adams is widely recognized as America's most distinguished diplomat, taking into account the length and breadth of his public service and his influence on American foreign policy. In the course of this remarkable journey, John Quincy...

W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to...

"...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."-Michael Lind, author ofThe New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite Something is wrong with...

In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America's greatest industrial empire.The...

M. Stanton Evans (d. 2015) was one of the unsung heroes and key figures of the modern conservativemovement, offering a model to be remembered and emulated in both thought and deed. A person ofextraordinary breadth, he combined the roles of journalist,...

Drawn Swords in a Distant Land showcases the fascinating, untold story of the rise and fall of the Republic of Vietnam. Putting aside outdated ideological debates, it offers the first in-depth review of the South Vietnamese successes and failures in...

Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community's maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he's learned.In the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the...

"Womack and Kruppa present a thorough history of Harrison and Clapton's songmaking and recording sessions." -BooklistNewly revised and expanded, this paperback edition featuresexclusive material from the Malcolm Frederick Evans archives and draws on rare...