Category: Biographies & Memoirs


  • Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

    New York Times best-seller. Over five million copies soldFor David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare–poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of…

  • Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

    The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar takes a revealing journey through the Southern US in a “vivid contemporary portrait of rural life” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).ย Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with remote people and far-flung places. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a…

  • Notes on Being a Man

    Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys.Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls.…

  • Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

    โ€œReads like a love story and a horror story and, in one nail-biting section, like a financial thriller.โ€โ€”The New York Times โ€‹โ€‹โ€œA beautifully written instant classic. Strangers is gripping and heartbreaking and a must-read for every wifeโ€”and husband.โ€โ€”Graydon Carterโ€œAsks us to examine lifeโ€™s most perplexing questions: Can we see the invisible fault lines in a…

  • The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World

    The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica’s deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow ClicquotSummer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their…

  • Work in Progress: Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest โ€“ A Funny, Wise, and Inspiring Spiritual Memoir

    In this humorous memoir, New York Times bestselling author and podcast host of The Spiritual Life, Father James Martin tells the story of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, and corporate tool and, finally, a Jesuit priest.”Funny, charming, inspiring and wiseโ€”this is a memorable memoir.” โ€” Stephen Colbert, Comedian and writerWork in…

  • Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

    The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the makingโ€œA stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a stunning cast of characters that reveals the inner struggles of a great…

  • Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South

    The definitive true โ€œSouthern Gothicโ€ account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald โ€œPee Weeโ€ Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the Southโ€”written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice.Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick…

  • Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War II

    From the bestselling author of Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and Enigma: The Battle for the Code, the story of unsung American heroism in World War II’s maritime epic in the Arctic.No campaign during World War II contained more spinetingling drama, outstanding courage, and heartbreaking tragedy than the Arctic convoys. Yet theyโ€”and the multifaceted…

  • Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the Heart of Japan

    A Japanese cultural historian shares a path to joyful living drawn from her nationโ€™s unique approach to spirituality and nature, offering a โ€œfascinatingโ€ (Wintering author Katherine May) blend of memoir, cultural reporting, and practical guidance for anyone struggling to find balance in our turbulent modern world.Everyoneโ€™s in the pursuit of happiness, but few know how…