Biography & autobiography

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

by Miranda Carter

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided...

The Gypsy Saw Two Lives

by Rodica Mihalis

Synopsis: The Gypsy Saw Two Lives is the memoir of a woman whose life journey takes her from communist Romania to America, the land of freedom, but it also holds many surprises, good and bad. ----- This true...

A Perilous Journey to the Border Patrol

by Martin Kelso

Synopsis: In A Perilous Journey to the Border Patrol, author Martin Kelso offers true, exciting and often humorous short stories that provide snapshots of his extraordinary experiences in life. This highly entertaining...

Disciplining Freud on Religion: Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences

by KAPLAN/PARSONS

Disciplining on Freud on Religion aims at evaluating the impact of Freud's understanding and interpretation of religion as it has impacted contemporary scholarship within several humanistic and social scientific...

Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel

by Daniel Gordis

In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, but a few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to remain in Jerusalem...

God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right

by Michael Sean Winters

Falwell did not eliminate the divide between religion and politics. Nor did he blur it. He jumped over it, bringing millions of voters with him, and he never looked back.

—from the Introduction

Mounting concerns...

The Partnership

by Philip Taubman

A terrorist attack with nuclear weapons is the mostdangerous security issue America faces today—andwe are far more vulnerable than we realize. Driven bythis knowledge, five men—all members of the Cold Warbrain...

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

by Paula J. Giddings

In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle...

American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood

by Marc Eliot

As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends,...

Stolen Innocence

by Elissa Wall & Lisa Pulitzer

In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry...

Sandy Koufax

by Jane Leavy

In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore....

Playing with Purpose: Inside the Lives and Faith of the NFL's Top New Quarterbacks

by Mike Yorkey

They dominated college football and stood strong for their faith. Now, as they storm the NFL, learn all about “the three quarterbacks”: Bradford, McCoy, and Tebow.

The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman

by Leo Lerman & Stephen Pascal

A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social...

Hiding Places

by Deborah Elizabeth Merriman

Deborah Elizabeth was a precarious little girl who retreated to her hiding places where she found not only safety from abuse, but a place where her imaginations took her into her own world of happiness. Her...

Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys

by Scott R. Sanders

After an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair has darkened his son's world. In Hunting for Hope he sets out to...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady

by Sylvia Morris

Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic...

Gone Away into the Land

by Jeffrey B. Allen

KILL THE BEAST, JOHN! KILL IT! - Meet twelve-year-old John Greber, who describes the dark clouds of daily life he, his mother, Ellie, and six- year-old sister, Marny, live under. The fear and loathing that exist...

Living With Body Dysmorphic Disorder

by Lea Walker

Lea Walker first caught the public eye when she appeared on Channel 4's Big Brother programme in 2006. Her outgoing personality, surgery enhanced figure and outspoken manner kept audiences glued to their screens...

The Supreme Commander

by Stephen E. Ambrose

In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II.

Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience...

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

by Ron Chernow

Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and...