When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, a...
Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the ...
Drew BreesWhen a potentially career-ending shoulder injury left quarterback Drew Brees without a team and faced with the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over again, coaches around the NFL wondered, would he ever come ba...
Critics Choice . . . Shocking, inspiring, unforgettable.' --People magazine 'Andrew Bridge has written an affecting, moving memoir which in the end is a poignant cry for rethinking our foster care system. Hope's Boy will stay with ...
This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.
Richard Harris: Sex, Death & the Movi...
Michael Feeney CallanAn intimate biography of one of the greatest eccentric spirits of the modern cinema--from his earliest days in Ireland, and his roles in classics like Mutiny on the Bounty, A Man Called Horse, Camelot, The Field, and Unforgiven--to hi...
The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, A...
Diahann CarrollIt's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll—whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers—is anything but conventional. Shonda Rhime...
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing ...
Kerry Max CookKerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police...
A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and d...
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a We...
Ivan DoigThis work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Doig’ s life was formed among the sheepherders and other denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. New Preface ...
Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .: Comedy C...
Rachel DratchDIVBThe former ISNL/I star recounts the adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mom when she least expected it—at the age of forty-four. /BBRbr Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 kn...
There Are No Shortcuts: Changing the ...
Rafe EsquithThere is a classroom of fifth graders in Los Angeles that has been rocking the world of public education. In this inner city classroom children who speak English as a second language, who primarily come from impoverished single parent...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington's Crossing offers a sweeping, enthralling biography as dramatic and exciting as the life it portrays.Soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New Franc...
Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to 'let her babies go' — she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they c...
Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In M...
Gayle HaggardOn November 2, 2006, Gayle Haggard's life changed forever when her husband, Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was publicly exposed ...
Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Es...
Sophie HayesSophie Hayes, a young, educated woman, was spending an idyllic weekend in Italy with her seemingly charming boyfriend. However, on the day she planned to return home, everything changed. He made it clear that she wasn't going anywhere...
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's...
Stephen F. HayesNew York Times bestselling author Stephen F. Hayes delivers a comprehensive portrait of one of the most important political figures in modern times.
Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)
Homer H. HickamThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of...
The Imitation Game: Alan Turing, the ...
Andrew HodgesIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before h...
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
Ann HoodA moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.
No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now.'Many say I was the best geisha of my generation,' writes Mineko Iwasaki. 'And yet, it was a life that I found t...
A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Dou...
Reza KahliliThe true story of a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran while serving as a member of the secretive and feared Revolutionary Guards.
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide...
Matt KaileyA transsexual takes readers on a fascinating tour of his gender reassignment surgery and its aftermath, beginning with his life as a straight woman, exploring all aspects of this difficult physical and social passage from one gender t...
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays an...
Marina KeeganThe instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" (O, The Oprah Magazine).Marina Keegan's s...
Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles A...
John KrogerConvictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate...
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found...
Jennifer LauckTo young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kis...
Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She'd slept with too many men and a few women, and she didn't like dogs or children. Georga...
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fat...
Michael LewisThe New York Times bestseller: "Hilarious. No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood, Lewis' book addresses the good, the bad, and the merely baffling about having kids."—Boston Globe When Michael Lewis became a father, ...
The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely wri...
Through the vivid stories in "Drama", John Lithgow shares a backstage history of his struggle, crisis, and discovery, and the scenes of his early life and career that took place before he became a nationally-known star. Abov...
MASTERFUL.'--The Washington Post Book World'RIVETING . . . UNFOLDS LIKE A DETECTIVE STORY.'--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from...