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, ...

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...

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of Germany's Luftwaffe.In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use first-hand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking...

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...

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...

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." ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...