autobiographies

In her first board book, Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai introduces herself and her story to inspire the next generation of readers and leaders. With simple text alongside irresistible art, Nobel Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai's first board book offers parents and educators a way to show that extraordinary figures are real people who are both relatable and inspiring. Malala is a daughter, a sister, a friend, a student, and, of course, an activist. The last spread features a brief bio to provide more context for parents, caretakers, and educators who want to start a conversation about Malala's activism.

A Maasai herder's duty is to protect his livestock. This is the true story of how one boy did his duty, solving a problem that had defeated wildlife experts for decades.

Growing up, Jenny Pentland's life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's early family life in working-class Denver. But that was only the beginning of the drama. Roseanne Barr's success as a comedian catapulted the family from the Rockies to star-studded Hollywood--with its toxic culture of money, celebrity, and prying tabloids that was destabilizing for a child in grade school. In this scathingly funny and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as the daughter of a television star and how she navigated the turmoil, eventually finding her own path.

Collects six-word memoirs by writers and other artists, such as Chuck Klosterman, Adam Schlesinger, Keith Knight, Zak Nelson, and Amy Sedaris.

A brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food. Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn't stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some more. Her first attempt to use food to change her body came at age four, when she learned that the Inuit ate fat to stay warm in the winter. If this diet worked in the Arctic, she reasoned, why not in Long Island? Postcollege, after a brief stint as a diet-pill model, she became a health-and-fitness writer and editor working on celebrities' bestselling bios--sugarcoating the trials and tribulations celebs endure to stay thin. But what is the ideal body? Knowing she's far from alone in this struggle, Kim sets out to find the objective definition of this seemingly unattainable level of perfection. While on a fascinating and hilarious journey through time that takes her from obese Paleolithic cavewomen, to the bland menus that Drs. Graham and Kellogg prescribed to promote good morals in addition to good health, to the binge-drinking-prone regimen that caused William the Conqueror's body to explode at his own funeral, Kim ends up discovering a lot about her relationship with her own body. Warm, funny, and brutally honest, Beautiful Bodies is a blend of memoir and social history that will speak to anyone who's ever been caught in a power struggle with his or her own body...in other words, just about everyone.

Published in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, this book looks at some of the men and women from both military life and civilian life who are recipients of the Medal of Honor.

A collection of more than seventy personal essays that use the imaginative language of literature to describe real life, including works by Frank McCourt, John McPhee, Cynthia Ozick, Charles Baxter, and several others.

Collection of autobiographical writings by Native Americans from 1768 to 1986.

Contains autobiographies of both wellknown and little-known Americans from the Pilgrims to the present day.

A collection of autobiographical essays in which twenty-seven Native Americans discuss what their heritage means to them.