What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated...
The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir
John GroganFinding your place in the world can be the longest trip home . . . In the highly anticipated follow-up to Marley & Me, John Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the story of what came first. Before there was Marley, there was ...
In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's ti...
Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks ...
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of ...
Michael J. FoxThere are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challe...
In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story. Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an on...
In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times B...
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Angela's Ashes describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in ...
“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”With striking in...
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with...
Elizabeth GilbertAt the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore ete...
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna QuindlenIt's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone, and became her. Then I began to like what I'd invented. And finally I...
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a voracious reader. He has for years ke...
A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry Marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his girlfriend's infidelity, his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his identity as a soldie...
DIVpA legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missionsFor a cru...
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia ...
Bob SpitzThe definitive biography of Julia Child—with access to Julia's diaries and letters—written by the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed The Beatles and timed to Julia's 100th birthday.From Pasadena to Cambridge to New...
Strength in What Remains: A Journey o...
Tracy KidderThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the modern classics Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Soul of a New Machine returns with the extraordinary true story of a young man and his will to surviveIn this remarkable book, New York Time...
Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine's famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck's Common Sense. Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation o...
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Frankenp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Tahoma; color: #212121; -webkit-text-stroke: #212121} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum - comes the story of an award...
Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls's award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, tea...
In a memorable, often whimsical tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the best-selling author of a Heckuva Job and Remembering Denny celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in the author's ...
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...
Steven Tyler"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-daughtered, I've been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I'm a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the ba...
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Li...
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOne of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's ITotal Recall is the candid story by one of the world's most remarkable actors, businessmen, and world leaders./PBorn in the small city of Thal, A...
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed 'Zippy' for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ear...
This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any...
In this frank and funny memoir, the Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen shares her journey from small-town Oklahoma to big-time Broadway, vamping on what it takes to stand firmly on a foundation of family and faith… while we...
Kitchen Privileges: Memoirs of a Bron...
Mary Higgins ClarkBestselling author Mary Higgins Clark writes about her early years, beginning with her Bronx childhood during the Depression with her widowed mother, to her own widowhood and the raising of her five children years later. She also writ...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the ...
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin de...
President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bu...
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One ...
Don Van RynPart 1: Reunion or Farewell? The story begins as Colleen and Newell Cerak first learn the doubtful, then shocking news that their daughter, buried five weeks earlier, may still be alive, Colleen's drive to the hospital with the dental...