On November 7, 1991 Magic Johnson, icon of the American basketball courts, announced that he was retiring from the professional game because he had been diagnozed as HIV positive. His announcement stunned America and sent shockwaves around the world.
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the...
My Life as a Book is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct.
In The Fight for My Life: Boxing Through Chemo, Kelly Motley chronicles how the sport of boxing would prepare her for the biggest match of her life, cancer.
"For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life she leads.
Is it starting a business? Buying your dream house? Moving up the ladder in your career? Getting into the best shape of your life? Being a guest on Super Soul Sunday? Landing in Forbes? You get to decide. (I hope you know this by now!)
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
But Mina's dad begins taking Mina along to hear speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr in Chicago. And soon he brings the freedom movement to their own small town, with consequences for everyone, in Gayle Brandeis's My Life with the Lincolns.
A husband and teen daughter are challenged to redefine their understandings of family when a devoted wife and mother commits suicide and begins meddling from beyond the grave.