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“This singular memoir stunned me. With a poet’s precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two interwoven tragedies few others could have lived through, much less written about with such clear-eyed candor.”—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’...
My Russia reveals CNN’s Jill Dougherty’s transformative journey from a Cold War-era obsession with Russia to witnessing firsthand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the unraveling of a nation she grew to love  At the height of the Cold War, as a high school freshman,...
A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king.To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German...
A deeply personal biography of Pope Leo XIV, featuring his first-ever public interview as pope, from Elise Ann Allen, journalist and Rome correspondent for Crux.“An extraordinary achievement . . . a masterful and amazingly intimate portrait of our new pope.”—Austen...
This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett -- funny, irreverent, and irresistible.Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and...
The author and Korean War veteran vividly describes his time on the frontlines in this military memoir: "war reporting at its best . . . reads like a novel" (Walter Cronkite).In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft, nineteen-year-old Jim Brady volunteered for a Marine...
A book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology."A gripping, soaring, inspiring book about the sickest people on the planet. It's an important story too—about not only death, but also survival."―New...
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed...
When Dave Hnida deployed as a trauma surgeon to Iraq, the family physician became part of a combat hospital with an astonishingly high survival rate. This “true-life M*A*S*H tale of doctors, wars, and field hospitals” ( The Denver Post ) is “wonderfully moving and...
A National Book Award Finalist | A New York Times Notable Book Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer home on Cape Cod, where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this...
