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Kitchen Confidential

by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."

Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This."...


Committed

by Chris Knutsen

Committed gives women a rare insight into what the other half really thinks.-Candace Bushnell

In these original essays, seventeen celebrated authors give a private tour of the male psyche and discuss the journey...


City Boy

by Edmund White

An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual

lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the

tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White.

In the New York of the...


White Angels

by John Carlin

A look at soccer superstar David Beckham, the Real Madrid team he joined in 2003, and at how this combination has forever changed the face of the world's most popular sport.


A Year in the Merde

by Stephen Clarke

A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action-and to prevent...


The Cooked Seed: A Memoir

by Anchee Min

In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as...


Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir

by Greg Bellow

Saul Bellow was easily angered, prone to argument, and palpably vulnerable to criticism, but according to his son, his young father was also emotionally accessible, often soft, and possessed of the ability to...


Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

by Caroline Paul

Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks...


Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary

by Denis Kitchen & Michael Schumacher

More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers....


Vow: A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)

by Wendy Plump

Monogamy is one of the most important vows we make in our marriages. Yet it is a rare spouse who does not face some level of temptation through the allure of other people. Sometimes the issues are resolved before...


Patsy: The Story of Mary Cornwallis West

by Tim Coates

This is the story of Mary Cornwallis West, who was called Patsy by her family and close friends. High class and Irish born, she married when she was sixteen and had a long affair with Edward, the Prince of Wales,...


Babysitting George: The Last Days of a Soccer Icon

by Celia Walden

As a young reporter, Celia Walden receives an unusual assignment: track down a global superstar and keep him away from all other journalists. That man is soccer player George Best, who made his debut for Manchester...


The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat

by Dave Tomar

"[A] stunning tale of academic fraud . . . shocking and compelling."-The Washington Post

Dave Tomar wrote term papers for a living. Technically, the papers were "study guides," and the companies he wrote for-there...


My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa

by John Dramani Mahama

MY FIRST COUP D'ETAT is a literary nonfiction account that charts the coming of age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors...


Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

by Lois Banner

Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde...


Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz

by Cynthia Carr

"[Fire in the Belly is] unimprovable as a biography-thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical-as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial." -Luc Sante, Bookforum

David Wojnarowicz...


The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of "Joe" Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water

by Kate Summerscale

A fascinating biography of the woman champion motorboat racer of the 1920s who in the '30s bought and became 'ruler' of an island in the British West Indies. 'Joe' Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter...


How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession

by Daniel Duane

Daniel Duane was a good guy, but he wasn't what you might call domestic. Yet when he became a father, this avid outdoorsman was increasingly stuck at home, trying to do his part in the growing household. Inept...


Will Eisner

by Michael Schumacher

In Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics, Michael Schumacher delves beneath Eisner's public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner's career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from...


Walking Home

by Lynn Schooler

In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his...