In this biography of baseball legend Roberto Clemente, David Maraniss recounts the life and career of Number 21, conveying why, more than three decades after his untimely death in a plane crash, Clemente is revered as both a player an...

THE BLOCKBUSTER BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK SPORT MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEARMore than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor for the American experience. The nine seasons during whic...

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret m...

An "incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend" (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century.Wallace Stevens (...

#3 on Amazon.com's 10 Best Books of 2011BRIThe New Yorker Favorite Books from 2011BRHudson Booksellers Best Books of 2011BRBarnes Noble Best Nonfiction Books of 2011BRISt. Louis Post Dispatch Favorite Books of 2011BRA IShelf Awarenes...

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a "vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic" (TheNew York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in th...

Jonathan Edwards is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. Arguably the most brilliant theologian ever born on American soil, Edwards (1703-1758) was also a pastor, a renowned preacher, a missionary to the Native A...

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. Th...

“If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer.” ―Providence JournalIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American contin...

Fascinating, insightful, and wholly engrossing, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history.Though theirs may not be household names, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody had an ext...

Now in paperback—Angie Martinez, the "Voice of New York," candidly recounts the story of her rise to become an internationally celebrated hip hop radio icon.  In her current reign at Power 105.1 and for nearly two decades...

Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration o...

With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side; the crooked world of small-tim...

Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old . . . yet. But we sense it coming: Careers are winding down, kids are gone, parents ar...

First published as magazine articles in 1907, Bat Masterson's illustrated collection of mini-biographies reveals fascinating details about legendary gunslingers Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, Bill Tilghman, Ben Thompson, and ot...

"Titanic in potential appeal . . . the Mátes do something rare; they go native."—Washington PostThis hilarious, international bestseller is a true-life adventure of a New York City couple moving to Tuscany. Ferenc Máte...

"Lucky Penny's Tail is a gripping, vivid, first person account. Great and fascinating in detail, the book reads as if one is watching an old war movie." ...

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their ea...

Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.With the cooperation of many of Jacques...

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography: 'An amazing story [told] with clarity and intelligence...colorful and insightful.'—Martin Rubin, Los Angeles TimesLouisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, th...

For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the c...

The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armo...

The acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and "emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, ...

David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to c...

An unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her pare...

In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he lo...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a "vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography" (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times ...

Books by politicians are not often worth reading, but John McCain's Faith of My Fathers is an astonishing exception to the rule. The Republican senator from Arizona has a remarkable story to tell--better than just about any of his pee...

In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of My Fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is the rest of his story, about his gre...

The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but als...