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Knuckler: My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch

by Tim Wakefield & Tony Massarotti

The incredible story of one of baseball's rarest and most resilient performers, and of the confounding pitch that would change his life and define his career.


How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

by William J. Mann

A narrative account of Elizabeth Taylor's career, with particular attention paid to how the consummate movie star influenced and crafted her image over the years.


Running the Books

by Avi Steinberg

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck...


Robert Kennedy and His Times

by Jr.", Arthur M. "Schlesinger

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's...


Autobiography of a Face

by Lucy Grealy

This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures...


Imperial Dancer

by Coryne Hall

The vivacious Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. As a young girl, she had enjoyed romantic troika rides, and passionate...


Elizabeth Taylor: A Shining Legacy on Film

by De Cindy

A film retrospective that spans Taylor's 70-year career featuring “behind-the-scenes” stories and rare photos.


A Glamorously Unglamorous Life

by Julia Albain

When I was 22 I hopped a plane for New York City, off to pursue my destiny, sure that I’d never look back. This is my story of looking back. Of a journey that took on a whole new meaning and purpose. A year...


The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

by Stephen Bown

The first full-scale biography of the greatest of all polar explorers and a conqueror of the Northwest Passage as well


Dynomite!: Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times--A Memoir

by Jimmie Walker & Sal Manna

A hilarious and politically charged memoir from immensely popular comedian Jimmie “J. J.” Walker, best known for playing J.J. Evans on the classic sitcom Good Times


The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926-28

by T. S. Eliot & Valerie Eliot

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. The demands of his professional life as writer and editor became more complex and exacting....


Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

by Cholly Atkins & Jacqui Malone

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War...


Eleonora Duse: A Biography

by Helen Sheehy

A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke...


23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Record-Breaking Victory

by John Wilcockson

A riveting day-by-day account of the 2004 Tour de France "filled with expert detail and rich with history, as Wilcockson knows the Tour as well as any journalist alive." -ESPN.com


Keeping Quiet: Paul Nixon The Autobiography

by Jon Colman & Paul Nixon

From Gower to Flintoff, Waugh to Vaughan, Cronje to Pietersen, Paul Nixon has shared a dressing room with some of the most evocative names in international and domestic cricket - and often enraged them on the...


Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison

by Jeff Coen & John Chase

No one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich. The 40th governor of Illinois made international headlines in 2008 when he was roused from his bed and arrested by the FBI at his Chicago home. He...


Saving Molly: A Research Veterinarian's Choices

by James Mahoney

With an introduction by Roger A. Caras, president of the ASPCA. The puppy was dying when James Mahoney found her. Molly was not the first dying animal the research veterinarian had seen. But Molly's struggle...


Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark

by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

With the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, a legend was launched. Freya Stark had begun the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her, though distinctly unglamorous, as the last of...


There's Only One Stevie Bacon: My Life Watching West Ham Through a Camera Lens

by Steve Bacon & Kirk Blows

He has never scored a goal, lifted a trophy, worn the captain’s armband or even played for the club, but Steve Bacon is considered a genuine Hammers legend. As West Ham United’s official photographer for...


Hell's Guest

by Glenn Frazier

"It was the 1930s in southern Alabama where cotton and cornfields were the backdrop of my childhood stage. I was growing up just like everyone else-wrapped in a simple and predictable way of life. Folks were...