An unusual foray into the world of autobiographical self-examination, singer-songwriter Tori Amos and writer Ann Powers's collaborative effort PIECE BY PIECE explores the artist's family background, including her Cherokee heritage and...
I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lync...
Rick BraggPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica Lynch tell the stor...
As National Security Advisor to the President and winner of the NAACP Image Award, Condoleezza Rice has never wasted time getting where she wants to be. For the first time, this biography tells the story of her remarkable life.
Written with her grandnephew, Julia Child's infectiously readable memoir uses years of letters to create a wonderful narrative both about her love affair with the food and culture of France, and as homage to the warm, loving relations...
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Woo...
Suzanne FinstadAfter twenty years, the story of Natalie Wood's extraordinary life and mysterious death is revealed in a riveting new biography We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes in Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause...
In this memoir, a woman explains how her husband's personality changed after he suffered from a traumatic brain injury. Once an intellectual with a taste for obscure foreign films, he became a idiotic fan of children's mediocre cartoo...
General Ike : A Personal Reminiscence...
John EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower's son recalls his father's distinguished career as general and president, and along the way has much to say about not only Ike but DeGaulle, Churchill, Patton, MacArthur, and other major players in the tense world...
The sequel to the acclaimed Rocket Boys continues the story of Coalwood, West Virginia, as the author and his fellow Rocket Boys face their senior year at Big Creek High, while the forces of change bring Coalwood to a difficult crossr...
The author describes her intimate twenty-year friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's med...
Fascinating and inspiring.... Santiago is a born storyteller. - New York Times Book Review Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally b...
Travels with Charley in Search of Ame...
John SteinbeckWith his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled ...
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
Karen DeyoungThe first definitive biography of the powerful soldier-statesman follow's Colin Powell's life from his Jamaican roots and youth in the Bronx, through his decorated career in the army and as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to hi...
With a family of twelve children, it's a good thing that both Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth are efficiency experts. Running his family like a factory, yet acting like a kid himself, father Frank Gilbreth helps keep an already lively group eve...
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A...
Jenny LawsonFor fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.DIV Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we'd like to pretend never happened—...
An intimate memoir by the legendary funny man recalls his long-time partnership with crooner Dean Martin; their remarkable decade-long success as a team of performers in radio, TV, film, the theater, and nightclubs; their traumatic br...
Never a Dull Moment: My Autobiography...
Rod StewartThe extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time. brWith his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the mos...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Wanted to G...
Malala YousafzaiWhen the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ...
As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn 'was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped, and a subject Ms. Erickson's sensitivity to sexual and politica...
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share ...
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shoppi...
Judith LevineShocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all...
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wrec...
Michael LewisIt was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time.In this shrewd and wickedly funny audiobook, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era...
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Re...
Sarah SilvermanWarning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? A ...
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociol...
Sudhir VenkateshIn this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicag...
When hospital-trained midwife Penny Armstrong takes on a job delivering the babies of the Amish, she discovers an approach to giving birth which would change her life forever. A MidwifeÕs Story is a life-affirming book that never fai...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The...
Allison Hoover BartlettUnrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love-the love of books. Perhaps equally obsessive is Ken Sanders, t...
Well-known blogger and humorist Tucker Max presents his second collection of new and never-published short stories that chronicle his drunken sexual escapades.
The Accidental Billionaires: The Foun...
Ben MezrichNATIONAL BESTSELLER"The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires." —The New York TimesBest friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely n...
Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughte...
Essie Mae Washington-WilliamsThe illegitimate half African-American daughter of the southern Senator best known for his twenty-four-hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 reveals the discrepancies between the father she knew and his public persona, ...
The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and O...
Noah AdamsDrawing on letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, and other primary source material, this incisive portrait focuses on the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright, in a volume celebrating the one hundredth anniver...
Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraor...
Lisa/ Abraham Beamer2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! Lisa Beamer was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Todd, led a counterattack against terrorists on United Flight 93. He--and all the other passenger heroes--lost their lives in...