biography & autobiography / general

A biography of boxer Ray "Boom-Boom" Mancini, covering his childhood and his boxing career, and focusing on the events following his November 13, 1982 match against Duk Koo Kim, in which Kim was knocked out and never regained consciousness and whose death haunted Mancini.

A behind-the-scenes account of the five tragic days surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by former secret service agent Clint Hill, who served as body-guard to Jackie Kennedy.

This portrait of David Millar's life as a professional cyclist follows his rise as a young racing star, his fall to the pervasive influence of performance-enhancing drugs and his subsequent redemption.

Shares the personal beliefs and experiences from a diverse group of Americans, including a physician, a roller derby queen, a corporate executive, a homeless person, and many others as featured on the This I Believe radio program.

A memoir by Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott about coming of age in 1970s New York.

The author tells the story of her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff and Dorothy's friend Rosamond Underwood, two society girls in upstate New York, who left home in the summer of 1916 to take jobs as teachers in the tiny Colorado settlement of Elkhead, drawing from their letters home, interviews with descendants, research, and trips to the region to reconstruct their adventures and discuss their lasting influence on their young students and others they met.