Biography Audio Books

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.

He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?

The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the 20th century...

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path...

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

Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own....

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of Steve Jobs.

Lorde weaves a narrative tapestry out of the threads of her own life - from her family's immigration to New York through her own coming of age - and the lives of the women who shaped her....