The Best Reference Biographies & Memoirs 2024

1. Hole (DVD)

Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is a homicide detective looking for answers. All three lives will intertwine with disturbing, deadly consequences.

Hole (DVD)

2. The Man From the Cave [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. "In this extraordinary book an American life slowly takes shape, rescued from anonymity through the casual discovery of a few mysterious objects. While backpacking in an isolated part of the Nevada desert in 1968, Colin Fletcher came upon an old wooden trunk standing at the mouth of a cave. Inside the cave he found what appeared to be a man's possessions, coated with the dust of years. These personal but anonymous effects - among them fragments of a 1916 newspaper - stirred Fletcher's imagination, and a year later he went back and lived in the cave for ten days. The experience inspired in him a determination to piece together the life of the man who had preceded him. After his article describing the discovery and the beginnings of his investigation appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Fletcher heard from Grace Mazeris, an elderly woman who told him she believed that the cave dweller was a prospector named 'Chuckawalla' Bill Simmons - a man she had once lived with. Shortly thereafter, Mrs. Mazeris died and Fletcher, realizing that time was running out, began in earnest to reconstruct Chuckawalla Bill's life. Using records from the National Archives and from Simmons's home town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Fletcher meticulously and persistently tracked the man's first wanderings as a youth, his service in the Philippine insurrection after the Spanish-American War, and his restless movements - often under an alias - across the western United States. The trail led Fletcher to people who had known Bill Simmons at various times in his life - family members, other men and women who had prospected, played cards, and drunk with him in the desert towns of California. Their encounters are intensely moving as memories of Bill, dormant for decades, are affectionately aroused...." Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, map endpapers.

The Man From the Cave, Used [Hardcover]

3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. First published in 1897, this unique reference work contains more 18,000 biographiesmore than any other reference work of its typeThe ninth edition of this indispensable resourcehas been thoroughly updated and remains wide-ranging and international in scope, offering concise, authoritative, and illuminating entries on individuals from Alexander the Great to Frank Zappa, and from Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden."

Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Used [Hardcover]

4. Marvelous Monikers: The People Behind More Than 400 Words and Expressions, Used [Paperback]

Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Galahad Books; 1ST edition (October 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 1578661013 ISBN-13: 978-1578661015 Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

Marvelous Monikers: The People Behind More Than 400 Words and Expressions, Used [Paperback]

5. Dictionary of American Biography : With an Index Guide to the Supplements, Used [Hardcover]

Cited in BCL3 and Sheehy, the Dictionary of American Biography records the lives (after their passing) of notable individuals who have made significant contributions to American life and culture. Following the 20 base volumes published between 1927 and 1936, supplementary volumes cover persons who

Dictionary of American Biography : With an Index Guide to the Supplements, Used [Hardcover]

6. Who's Who in America: 2005 [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Who's Who in America: 2005

Who's Who in America: 2005 [Hardcover - Used]