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The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions

by Michael Konik

A riveting inside look at the lucrative world of professional high-stakes sports betting by a journalist who lived a secret life as a key operative in the world's most successful sports gambling ring.

When...


Malcolm X

by Randy DuBurke & Andrew Helfer

The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor behind Road...


Solo: My Adventures in the Air

by Clyde Edgerton

When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes. For Edgerton, it was love at first sight. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch...


Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars

by Jan DeBlieu

On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to wonder. Her husband had become enveloped in a depression of his...


The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon

by Donald Hall

A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall

In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts...


Sala's Gift

by Ann Kirschner

"Do you know why I write so much? Because as long as you read, we are together."

-- Raizel Garncarz (Sala's sister),

April 24, 1941

Few family secrets have the power both to transform lives and to fill in...


The Fox In the Cupboard: A Memoir

by Jane Shilling

What does a London-based single mother do on her holidays? With a couple of weeks unexpectedly free and no chance of going away, Jane Shilling decided she would pursue a childhood ambition and learn to ride....


The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows

by Gabor Boritt

The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in history. It has been quoted by popes, presidents, prime ministers,...


A Life in Smoke: A Memoir

by Julia Hansen

"I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the...


The Story of Chicago May

by Nuala O'Faolain

The story of a female outlaw like no other in history - by the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author. Legend says that May was tall with red-gold hair and big blue eyes, compellingly attractive to men....


Too Soon to Say Goodbye

by Art Buchwald

When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, “The Man Who Wouldn’t...


House of Hilton

by Jerry Oppenheimer

This intimate, shocking—and thoroughly unauthorized—portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour.

From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric “innkeeper...


The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

by Edward Beauclerk Maurice & Lawrence Millman

"This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written."...


The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper: The Case for Collaborative Governance

by Lloyd Mackey

Any look at Stephen Harper and the new Conservative party requires an examination of the evangelical Christian legacy coming out of both the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties. In Stephen...


The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

by William Kalush & Larry Sloman

Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography,...


Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life

by Donna McKechnie & Greg Lawrence

A poignant and revealing memoir from a legendary entertainer.

Donna McKechnie began her love affair with dance as a child in Detroit. At fifteen, she ran away from home to join a touring dance troupe, and in...


Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent

by Anthony Rapp

Anthony Rapp captures the passion and grit unique to the theatre world as he recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent.

Anthony had a special feeling...


In the Name of Honor: A Memoir

by Marie-Therese Cuny, Mukhtar Mai & Nicholas D. Kristof

In June 2002, journalists throughout the world began to hear of the gang rape of a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala. The rape was ordered by a local clan known as the Mastoi and was...


Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood

by Teri Garr

In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS In a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally...


Walt Disney

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography 2006

by Neal Gabler

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.

Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed...