The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Lo...
Susan Bordo"Bordo's sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertaining, provocative read."—Boston Globe Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is ...
The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has never been fully explored or explained―until now. Frank & Ava delves deeply into the lives of these two iconic stars and their turbulent lifelong relationship. It began in Hollywoo...
A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR "Beautiful, literary, and devastating."—New York Times Book Review• "Revelatory."—Entertainment Weekly• "A masterly Silicon Valley gothic."...
First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it’s Lion, a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara. This is the miraculous and triumphant story of...
Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivne...
Douglas Brinkley''Father McGivney's vision remains as relevant as ever in the changed circumstances of today's church and society.'' -- Pope John Paul II Is now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint? In Father Mi...
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Marg...
Craig Brown"Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven." ―Hamish Bowles, Vogue"Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brillian...
Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of...
David BrowneWhen Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and...
Last Words: The Final Journals of Wil...
William S. BurroughsLaid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, 'Last Words' spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns--literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity,...
"A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year." – Janet Maslin, "Ten Favorite Books of the Year," New York Times"Here's Johnny!" Probably everyone in America kno...
An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of ...
Jimmy CarterIn An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter ...
My Life as a Seer: The Lost Memories:...
Edgar CayceAssembled after his death from diary entries and transcripts of talks, this autobiography of one of America's most famous psychics tells how he became aware of his gift and the difficulties he had adjusting to his life and to the fame...
My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Lif...
Susan CheeverThis definitive biography of the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous is based on Susan Cheever's access to Bill Wilson's papers and other documents. She tells of his experiences as a young man in Vermont and of his decline into alcohol...
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Catherine ClintonEvery schoolchild knows of Harriet Tubman's heroic escape and resistance to slavery.But few readers are aware that Tubman went on to be a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army, because there has never before been a serious biog...
An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My J...
Cheryl Cohen-GreeneFor the past forty years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, helping clients to confront, consider, and ultimately accept their sexuality. In this riveting memoir, Cohen Greene shares some of her most moving cases,...
Call of Duty: My Life Before, During ...
Lt Lynn "Buck" ComptonFOREWARD BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: "The "Band of Brothers" story rightly took America by storm. In telling of that remarkable generation of men who risked everything – everything – to defeat the evils of fascism, the...
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adve...
Vicki CrokeRecounts the remarkable true-life adventures of Ruth Harness, an American bohemian socialite and dress designer, who, in 1936, ventured into one of the most dangerous, unexplored regions of the world on a quest--which had already cost...
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and T...
Stanley CrouchKansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost...
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
Rachel CuskCasting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy--to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. Their three-month journey arou...
In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family—parents, husband, sons—were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehens...
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, ...
Jane DunnThe political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books ha...
The Interesting Narrative and Other W...
Olaudah EquianoAn exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Afr...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life...
Olaudah EquianoEdited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-PharrIn this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and...
In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and...
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijo...
M. F. K. FisherFrom one of the most gifted writers of our time, a nostalgic account of France, replete with fascinating characters and memorable meals. In this very personal reminiscence, readers glimpse beautiful Dijon against the backdrop of betwe...
After the Fire: A True Story of Frien...
Robin FisherEvery so often we encounter a story that makes us cry and makes us strong, that makes us want to hug our children and call our old friends. This bestselling book captures just such a drama in all its heartrending drama. On January 19...
When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the...
Joni FosterIn 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The s...
The Presidents Club: Inside the World...
Nancy GibbsThe Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for history...
Not since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, ...
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memo...
Peter GodwinHailed by reviewers as 'powerful,' 'haunting' and 'a tour de force of personal journalism,' When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award ...
The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Myst...
Meryl GordonBorn in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in American...