Autobiography

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN

J. Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age-opening the door to transforming society and their relationships. The book contains excerpts from previ...

FREEDOM: MY BOOK OF FIRSTS

Jaycee Dugard

Freedom is the second book by Jaycee Dugard, an inspiring author who shocked the world with her first world-wide best-seller, A Stolen Life. This time around she talks about her life after being in captivity for 18 full years. It's an autobiographica...

BARBARIAN DAYS: A SURFING LIFE

William Finnegan

William Finnegan, a life-long surfer, delivers a magnificent autobiographical debut with the Barbarian Days. It's a deeply personal story about a man who was obsessed with surfing and was one of the best at it. From the outside, it looks just like a...

UNINVITED

Lysa Terkeurst

Uninvited is a deeply personal, intimate, emotional and fascinating book about rejection. Lysa TerKeurst talks about her own experience - her father abandoned the family when she was just a little kid, and the trauma still follows her to this very da...

BORN A CRIME

Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah is a well-known comedian from South Africa, and he's got a couple of bestsellers behind his back. Born a Crime is his latest offering, and it's a compelling, exciting, inspiring and really funny story of one regular man. This is an autobi...

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE

Barack Obama

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father&mda...

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

Paul Kalanithi

Thirty-six ears old Paul Kalanithi found out that he has lung cancer and it is the stage IV. He was a father, he can be a legendary neurosurgeon, but he received a death sentence. In one breath moment, he became a patient for his colleagues. From the...

THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Erik Larson

Erik Larson, an internationally known author of groundbreaking bestsellers, wrote a gripping, captivating story based on the real events of the 1893 Fair in the US. Back then, a terrifying killer used the celebration as a cover to lure innocent folks...

MADEMOISELLE CHANEL

C. W. Gortner

Everybody in the fashion business knows the name of Coco Chanel - the gifted, strong-willed and insanely hard-working woman who single-handedly revolutionized the industry. She built a global empire and forever changed the way we dress in the 20th, 2...

Eyes Wide Open

Isaac Lidsky

Fear is a pretty powerful feeling, and it makes us think of all kinds of terrifying things and stick with what's familiar. However, when new, difficult obstacles get in our way, we need to "adjust" to the new rules and to think outside the box, so to...