Nicholas Gage "A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of BooksIn 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron...

Mona Mandel Abramowitz Rabbi Mayer and Rachel Abramowitz are beloved fixtures on the Miami scene. They have that special when you meet you immediately respect them and consider them close...

Helga Dudman January 1, 1982 by Hippocrene Books

Author: Dita Kraus The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most...

Author: Margaret Davidson The true story of the dedicated woman, Anne Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936), originally from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, who became Helen Keller's inspirational teacher...

Kitty Kelley For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she...

Alison Leslie Gold A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, explains how he saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas...

Don Mitchell When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted across the continent, instead of returning...

Smadar Shir The story of Miriam Peretz's life the story of a mother and a homeland; of love for the Land of Israel, the State of Israel, and the Jewish...

Ronald Sutherland Ronald Sutherland's Frederick Philip Grove is a comprehensive biography drawing upon numerous archival sources to provide an in-depth look at the life of one of Canada's most influential...

Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 2002 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of...

George Melly This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the...