The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced i...

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction...

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V- i...

Brian Cruver first entered the 'Death Star,' Enron's office complex, in March 2001. He was twenty-nine years old, an eager MBA ready to cash in as a new hire with one of America's most highly valued companies. But, from his first day ...

[F]labbergasting....[T]he Sphinx holds forth with what is, to put it mildly, atypical frankness....This book recaptures its author's first stirrings of creativity with amazing urgency. Mr. Dylan is fully present in re-experiencing the...

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...

After 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...

Dwight 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...

In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump w...

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...

The 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...

For 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—...

The 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...

When 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 ...

It 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...

Warning 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 ...

Well-known blogger and humorist Tucker Max presents his second collection of new and never-published short stories that chronicle his drunken sexual escapades.

2003 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...

Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What's more,...

From the New York Times bestselling author Marc Eliot comes the definitive biography of one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful actors, producers, and directors in the history of American motion pictures.

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful--and seemingly impenetrable--agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuve...

Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100t...

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London—from the...

This one-volume life of the general who organized the D-day invasion, and the president whose two terms defined the 1950s in America, is a fair and balanced portrait of a man who excelled in war and peace. John Wukovits charts Ike's e...

A compelling memoir from a true hero—and one of the few living persons to ever be awarded the celebrated Medal of Honor.Sal Giunta was just a regular kid from Iowa when he enlisted in the army to figure out what to do with his life....

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa...

A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindl...

The renowned, bestselling author of God's Secretaries and Seize the Fire explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion witnessed through the life and times of one of England's richest and most influential families.

Unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hours Read by TBA The football star made famous in the hit film The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth.