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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman,...


Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador

by Angelina Jolie

Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are her memoirs from her journeys to...


Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism

by Alfred S. Regnery

Alfred S. Regnery, the publisher of The American Spectator, has been a part of the American conservative movement since childhood, when his father founded The Henry Regnery Company, which subsequently became...


Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

by Amir D. Aczel

In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léeacute;on Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior...


The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science

by Jill Price & Bart Davis

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her...


Growing Up Patton: Reflections on Heroes, History, and Family Wisdom

by Benjamin Patton & Jennifer Scruby

The grandson of the legendary World War II general George S. Patton Jr., documentary filmmaker Benjamin Patton, explores his family legacy and shares the inspirational wit and wisdom that his grandfather bestowed...


Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban

by Daniele Mastrogiacomo & Michael Reynolds

On March 5, 2007, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver and his interpreter were captured by the Taliban. His captors threatened to execute him if Italy did not immediately withdraw its troops from Afghanistan....


The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye

by James Morton

Eugene François Vidocq was born in France in 1775 and his life spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the 1848 revolutions. He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of...


Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

by Aung San Suu Kyi & Michael Aris

Aung San Suu Kyi’s collected writings—edited by her late husband, who the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer—reflects her greatest hopes and fears for her fellow...


The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc

by Nancy Goldstone

The author of Four Queens offers a mesmerizing account of two extraordinary heroines who risked everything for France

 

Joan of Arc, the brave peasant girl who heard the voices of angels and helped restore...


The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

by Masha Gessen

The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his...


Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

by Kevin Smith

Profane, honest, and totally real advice from comedian and director Kevin Smith - one of America's most original voices

Take one look at Kevin Smith: He's a balding fatty who wears a size XXL hockey jersey, shorts,...


Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage

by Robin Gerber

Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable ability to confront and overcome hurdles-be they political, personal, or social-made her one of the greatest leaders of the last century, if not all time. In Leadership the Eleanor...


Memories and Hope: The Road I Traveled

by Guillermina Connor

Guillermina Georgina Andrew-Connor was born and raised into a world where manners and moral codes dictated how the individual would act, and in some cases even think. She was expected to sacrifice her desires...


Life Work

by Donald Hall

Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love

"The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always."—Louis Begley, ...


Nowolipie Street

by Józef Hen & Krystyna Boron

Hen's memoir is about growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Warsaw during the 1920's and 30's, up through the first few months of the German occupation. Nowolipie Street, where Hen lived as a child and...


The Magic Pencil

by Mikel Carvin & Barry Sheinkopf

This book delves into the founding moments in Carvin's life that matured his formidable character and intuitive ability to relate to people of different backgrounds and to both children and adults of all ages....


And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-

by Elie Wiesel

As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and...


The Sound of Silence: Journeys Through Miscarriage

by Irma Gold

Miscarriage is so common and yet within our culture it is an unspeakable subject. Women often grieve alone, mourning a child they have never met but whose future they have already imagined. It is a private,...


Lost Boy: My Story

by Greg Laurie & Ellen Santilli Vaughn

As a hippie and drug user who had grown-up in a dysfunctional family, Greg Laurie knew what it was to be lost. A seventeen-year-old, long-haired Greg soon discovered his passion for seeing people rescued from...