Biography & Autobiography

The bestselling Pat Conroy memoirThe moving story of a young teacher’s experience on an island forgotten by the worldThough the childre...

New York Times bestseller The life story of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper Journalist Michael J. Mooney reveals the life story of Navy SEAL...

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORIn her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and ma...

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.  Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young ...

The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most rema...

Carrie Fisher reads her New York Times Bestselling Memoir! Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with t...

It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little...

The first work of its kind—Jaycee Dugard’s raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for...

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.

It was a story that shook the world. In the autumn of 1955 five young men had dared to make contact with a Stone Age tribe deep in the jungle...

The mega bestselling book that started the heaven publishing phenomenon is now a major motion picture starring Hayden Christensen and Kate Bo...

Dave Pelzer's astonishing, disturbing account of his early years describes one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. Th...

Contrary to popular belief, we do not have to be perfect to do God's work. Look no further than the twelve disciples whose many weaknesses ar...

One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fo...

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for ...

Read the critically acclaimed New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print. Same Kind of Different as Me was a ...

Actor Jimmy Hawkins, who played fouryearold Tommy Bailey, takes you behind the scenes of the movie classic, Its a Wonderful Life, to meet Jim...

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I ...

"...the decided advantage of the audio book is that it is read by a cast of stars as long as your arm — thanks to Nevins' considerable ...

For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedic...

You've seen the headlines - government crackdowns on Chinese house churches; mass arrests and human rights violations...But this intensely dr...

Celebrated for their courage, vision, hospitality, and spiritual giftedness, it's no wonder women were so important to God's plan revealed in...

It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between. Drawing from a lifetime ...

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor i...

In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication ...

Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in stri...

Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American auth...

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she fo...

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and a...

The astonishing true story of Wilkerson's outreach to New York teens trapped by drugs and gangs. Gang-fighters! Drug addicts. Teenage runaway...

A straightforward yet inspiring story of what it took to be the first man of color to break into the white world of professional sports. Jack...

Her life has seemed liek a fairy-tale come true. . .yet the shocking truth is that for Diana Princess of Wales, life has been far from perfec...

One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongin...

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” (Elon Musk) Do you want to know wh...

In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story ...

Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys o...

The prostitutes working New York City’s Times Square were more than a little bit nervous. A deranged serial killer who apparently melt...

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring St...

Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. For a slave, it was a crime punishable by death, b...

The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture...Read by its Stars David Oyelowo, Forest Whitaker, and Oprah WinfreyWhen acclaimed Washingt...

The unforgettable life story of the fabulous drag queen from the bestselling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.The Lady Chablis, the ou...

See the difference, read Maya Angelou in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point type...

The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts in 1912 as Ralph enters his teen years. He tries as hard as he can ...

This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its a...

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, f...

Infused with Carrie Fisher’s trademark incisive wit and perfectly poised on the heels of Wishful Drinking’s instant New York Time...

"Jews and Irish Catholics did not often marry each other in the 1970s. Lynn and I did. A few mishaps, an AWOL rabbi, a long delay and a riot...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me share the stories behind the five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s...

From his rare vantage point as Lewis student, friend, and professional colleague, Professor John Lawlor recalls Lewis in his habit as he live...

In the six decades since he took to the stage and screen, Kirk Douglas has starred in eighty-three films, nine plays, written seven books, a...