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A compassionate act drives a young single mother in Arkansas to the forefront of America's fight against AIDS in this "powerful" memoir (Library Journal).In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the...
A French historian chronicles his meticulous efforts to document the lives of his Polish Jewish grandparents who were killed in the Holocaust.Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were...
The acclaimed novelist details her life before and after losing her first child in the ninth month of pregnancy in this touching and humorous memoir.One of the Best Books of the Year: USA Today, NPR's Fresh Air, San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, San Diego...
The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the...
This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business. It isn’t often that a person can live a dream, but Phil...
What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or thought you knew? Growing up, author Mel Laytner saw his father as a quintessential Type B: passive and conventional. As...
For some of us, moviegoing is an occasional pleasure. Kevin Murphy made it his obsession, and he did it for you.Mr. Murphy, known to legions of fans as Tom Servo on the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, went to the movies every day for a year. That's...
An intimate portrait of the Lakota chief by his great-grandson.Ernie LaPointe, born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, is a great-grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull, and in this book, the first by one of Sitting Bull's lineal...
One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs of all time reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food.From his first apprenticeship in France to his Michelin-starred restaurant empire, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s cuisine is inspired by the freshest...
“What Stephen Ambrose did for Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry in Band of Brothers, Glass does for Charlie Company, 1st Marines in this excellent, powerful book."—John C. McManus, author of Alamo in the Ardennes and The Deadly BrotherhoodThursday, October 12,...