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True Compass: A Memoir

by Edward M. Kennedy

In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events....

Seven: The Number for Happiness, Love, and Success

by Jacqueline Leo

What is it about the number seven that has such a hold on us? Why are there seven deadly sins? Seven days of the week? Seven wonders of the world, seven colors of the spectrum, seven ages of man, and seven sister...

My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare

by Jess Winfield

"Utterly delicious, original, witty, hilarious and brilliant. Shakespeare In Love on magic mushrooms. The Bard has never been this much fun."

-Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday and Thank You For Smoking...

The Film Club: A Memoir

by David Gilmour

"I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss."

--- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning...

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

by Jennifer 8 Lee

If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times...

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation

by Philip Shenon

In a work of history that will make headlines, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of most important federal commission since the the Warren...

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

by Po Bronson, Elizabeth Kanna & Robert T. Kiyosaki

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools...

The Liar in Your Life: The Way to Truthful Relationships

by Robert Feldman

In The Liar in Your Life, psychology professor Robert Feldman, one of the world's leading authorities on deception, draws on his immense body of knowledge to give fresh insights into how and why we lie, how...

Hooked: A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions

by Matt Richtel

Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after a stranger hands him a note warning him to exit immediately.

The handwriting on the note belongs...

The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works

by Henry Waxman

At a time when some of the most sweeping national initiatives in decades are being debated, Congressman Henry Waxman offers a fascinating inside account of how Congress really works by describing the subtleties...

The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him

by Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins

The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that...

Boomsday

by Christopher Buckley & T. D. Jakes

Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers...

Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them

by John McCain & Mark Salter

At some point in our lives, we all face tough decisions and have to make that hard call. In this remarkable book, Senator McCain and Mark Salter use experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary...

ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

by Vijay Vaitheeswaran & Iain Carson

"Zoom goes zero to sixty in nothing flat. It's an exciting ride into the future of the world's favorite physical object, the automobile."

-Gregg Easterbrook, author of THE PROGRESS PARADOX

"Zoom offers a new way...

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

by Christopher Buckley

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley,...

Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

by Laurence Maslon & Michael Kantor

From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, MAKE 'EM LAUGH illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring...

The Complete Book of Aunts

by Rupert Christiansen & Beth Brophy

Of all our blood relations, an aunt offers the most potential for uncomplicated friendship. The Complete Book of Aunts is an entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties,...

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

by John Stauffer

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations...

My Little Red Book

by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

MY LITTLE RED BOOK is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow...

The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America

by Robert Scheer

In the course of his forty-year-career as one of America's most admired journalists, Robert Scheer's work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him "one of the best reporters...