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The memoir of a journalist investigating the mystery of his sociologist mother's suicide forty years later.London, 1965: A brilliant young woman has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book. A promising...
Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might, in fact, be...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Washington Post Notable BookExcerpted in The New YorkerA work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through his most meaningful songs.Finally in...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world's most precious relicsIn 1942, as head of the newly...
The classic WWII memoir by America's most decorated soldier shares a "vivid, gripping, mature picture of combat" (The New York Times Book Review).Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a bestselling phenomenon and later became a major motion picture...
Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding FatherRichard Henry Lee was first to call for independence, first to call for union, and first to call for a bill of rights to protect Americans...
READY TO FINALLY BE A DOCTOR? WELL, JOHN STILL WASN’T EITHER…John's medical (and personal) adventures continue with this insightful, often hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of fumbling through the final year of residency training as the reality of working as a doctor...
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity whose life and words still speak to us today. His Meditations remains one of the most widely read books from the classical world, and his life represents the fulfillment of Plato's famous dictum...
"This poignant [Holocaust memoir] does honor to all children bewildered by horrorand injustice." —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List When she first saw Schindler's List—to whose premiere in Germany she was invited—Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was...
The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this “engrossing and absolutely terrifying read” (San Francisco Chronicle) traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, while...
