Mary H KingsleyUpon her sudden freedom from family obligations, a sheltered Victorian spinster traded her stifling middle-class existence for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Mary Kingsley traversed uncharted regions...

John L RansomJohn Ransom, Brigade Quartermaster of the Ninth Michigan Calvary, was only 20 years old when he became a prisoner of war in eastern Tennessee in 1863. He had...

Jacki LydenDaughter of the Queen of Sheba: A MemoirAs an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the...

Jon Krakauer   In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher...

Jenny Lawson   #1 New York Times BestsellerIn Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience...

Marisa LankesterSoon to be a WARNER BROS. movie starring MARGOT ROBBIE (Wolf of Wall Street, Focus), produced by Film 360 (Game of Thrones).DANGEROUS ODDS - a True Crime Thriller Memoire...

Decca Aitkenhead Tony always used to tell me to think less and feel more, but I never could. Now that that’s all I can do, I can see he was...

Jim ZiolkowskiThe powerful, personal story of Jim Ziolkowski, the man behind the organization buildOn—which turns inner city teens into community leaders at home and abroad—and his inspiring mission to change...

Eileen AlexanderOn July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five...

Cea Sunrise PersonNorth of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived BothIn the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s...

Danny Tipping and Ned ParkerI Am A Killer: What makes a murderer, their shocking stories in their own words

Julie MetzJulie Metz's life changes forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapses on the kitchen floor and dies in her arms. Suddenly, this mother of a...