Biographical

The Darling: A Novel

by Russell Banks

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground.

Hannah flees America for West Africa, where...

Midnight's sailing

by Bouzid Boudlali

From my own experience, I had consented to write this novel which is based on real facts. It takes the reader back to reality - the reality of those miserable people who live in the shantytowns in Morocco. The...

And You Know You Should Be Glad

by Bob Greene

A highly personal and moving true story of friend-ship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School

Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob Greene and...

Chocolate Cake With Hitler

by Emma Craigie

Chocolate Cake with Hitler is a gripping fictional retelling of the harrowing story of Helga Goebbels, twelve-year-old daughter of the Nazi Party’s head of propaganda. Helga’s childhood as the eldest of...

The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky By Her Daughter

by Elisabeth Gille & Marina Harss

A New York Review Books Original

Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky,...

Fiction Ruined My Family

by Jeanne Darst

Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir

The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one...

The Baskerville Legacy

by John O'Connell

‘“I like the way your mind works,” said Doyle. “We should work on something together. Pool our resources. What do you say?” I said I would enjoy that very much.’ ––––––––––––––––...

UNMAKING OF PAKISTAN: IF BOSE HAD LIVED: A Historical Novel

by Colonel Anil A Athale & & Lieutenant General Eric A. Vas

Synopsis The central figure of this work of fiction is the late Indian leader, Subash Chandra Bose. Over fifty years ago, one of the enduring human tragedies occurred when the Indian sub-continent was divided...

Becoming Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette #1

by Juliet Grey

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why must it be...

Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud

by Bruce Duffy

The author of the critically acclaimed novel The World as I Found It brilliantly reimagines the scandalous life of the pioneering, proto-punk poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of French...

Golden Image

by Henry Bendow

A fascinating insight into the life of Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century sculptor, who was the greatest goldsmith ever known. His work remains the standard against which other goldsmiths are still measured today....

Buster's Diaries: The True Story of a Dog and His Man

by Roy Hattersley

Buster, a half-German Shepherd mutt, was adopted by Roy Hattersley in December 1995. He began to dictate his diaries soon after his arrival.

Buster became England's most famous dog in 1996 when he defended himself...

Diary of a Fat Housewife: A True Story of Humor, Heart-Break, and Hope

by Rosemary Green

The personal story of a woman who has suffered the frustration, self-doubt, and loneliness associated with weight gain offers humorous insight into the diet industry and the power of the human will to overcome...

The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir

by Laurie Sandell

Laurie Sandell grew up in awe (and sometimes in terror) of her larger-than-life father, who told jaw-dropping tales of a privileged childhood in Buenos Aires, academic triumphs, heroism during Vietnam, friendships...

The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

by Katrina Kenison

The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace, in...

I Drink for a Reason

by David Cross

After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book. Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on Arrested Development...

Miss New York Has Everything

by Lori Jakiela

Her aunt was a nun who popped pills and did time in Narcotics Anonymous. Her father grew up during the Depression, believed he'd be the next Frank Sinatra, and ended up working in the mills. His daughter, Lori...

Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major

by John Feinstein

It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the final stop on the down escalator for fading stars. The annual PGA Tour Qualifying...

Groundswell

by Katie Lee

EAT, SURF, LOVE. A butterfly flaps its wings in New York City . . . and a groundswell forms in Mexico. . . .

Sometimes the biggest ripples come from the smallest events. Like the day that Emma Guthrie walks...