The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of...

Sex Object A Memoir

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir,...

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around A. D. 70. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula,...

The Dogs Were Rescued (And So Was I)

What would cause a cheese-loving, meat-eating lawyer to become a vegan? Her dog. Teresa Rhyme and Seamus the beagle both survived cancer once, so when Seamus develops yet another...

Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France

A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, the author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day and was launched on a thrilling...

Greek Lives

Plutarch’s series of biographies was the first of its kind, as much ground breaking in conception as Herodotus was with his Histories. Plutarch looked at the great men of the...

English Lessons The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith

The Questions Would Teach Her More Than the Answers   It wasn't long after arriving in Oxford for graduate school that twenty-two-year-old Andrea Lucado - preacher's daughter...

Meet Martin Luther A Sketch of the Reformer's Life

Martin Luther (1483-1546) contributed so much to the development of Western civilization that it is not overstatement to declare that he changed the world as he set the Protestant...

The Unbreakable Boy A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love

Like any other teenage boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year-olds, he has a rare brittle-bone disease, was locked in a mental...

Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody The Making of a Black Theologian

James H. Cone is widely recognized as the founder of Black Liberation Theology — a synthesis of the Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the spirit of...

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