NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:  The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune“Affectionat...

From an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" writer (Los Angeles Times), a hilarious memoir of middle age. In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of h...

In her first memoir, the Academy Award–winning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples to her life as a screen legend, icon of elegance, and devoted mother.In her a...

The New York Times bestseller: "Every page is filled with revelations, gossip and fascinating details about Markham."—Diane Ackerman, The New York Times Book Review Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a...

Jean Paul Getty and John Templeton are great examples of "bargain hunters" or "contrarians," who seek to find promising stocks that are out of favor or fashion-and therefore undervalued. Slightly different are thos...

Born into one of the most celebrated Anglo-Irish families, the Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell grew up at the whim of two literary heavyweights—her mother, writer Lady Caroline Blackwood, and stepfather, poet Robert Lowell. Now, with an in...

Financial markets have an impressive history of gains and progress for prudent and judicious investors. But these advances are often interrupted by powerful and sudden setbacks or forward lurches. What is it about investment psycholog...

In the fine tradition of 'Secret Lives of Great Authors' and 'Secret Lives of Great Artists' comes the latest entry in Quirk's successful series: 'Secret Lives of Great Composers'. You've heard their scores in countless movies, from '...

"I have been incredibly fortunate over the course of my career to have been associated with some extraordinary dramatic and musical productions, and also some rather spectacular disasters. Looking back, I can find gifts and life ...

A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in...

With a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time, Lycett depicts the life of this misunderstood genius, whose talent transcended the tragedy of his later years.

If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechosl...

[*Read by the author - Helen Macdonald] When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of t...

A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MILITARY MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WORLD WAR II'S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and hi...

What is it about him that makes him a super achiever?What about him can turn an idea into a world-changing mega-company?What about him is like you and what isn't?What can you learn from him? Read, and find out.The need to understand ...

It has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. In testament to the endurance and vitality of her message, each of her ei...

"Sometimes I think that speculation is more fun than knowledge. I just turn the answers into more questions anyway." Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a host of intriguing topics from the e...

"A mesmerizing, unsettling memoir about the ever-echoing nature of identity—written in vivid, blooming detail." —Gillian Flynn, best-selling author of Gone Girl  On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on...

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod (known to all as Julia) and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the ...

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-mi...

Former police lieutenant Lee Schwartz fights to live when his brain and body are ravaged by an undiagnosed bacterial infection—caused by what? In the hospital intensive care unit, days become weeks, then months. Complications and me...

I grew up in Deer River, MN - a one-stoplight town of 903 people. Two weeks after I graduated high school way back in the old days (1997) when everything was in black and white, I enlisted in the Navy in a combat aircrew position tha...

The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, burst into fits of rage, ...

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade industry...

VOLUME ONE -- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932[*Volume One is complete within this single Retail CD item.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political fig...

Foreword by President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which of...

In this memoir, the father and sons whose quarterbacking skills have made them famous in collegiate and pro ball candidly share their views of the highs and lows of their careers as well as the shared family philosophy which values ha...

She stepped onto the world stage as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the election of 2008. Previously, she had only been a small town mayor and the governor of a state with slightly more than half a million people. Still, t...

In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including 'chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay,' were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain th...

A revealing portrait of a notorious Nazi henchman, the head of Germany's Luftwaffe.In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use first-hand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking...