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The memoir that "lives up to its title in spades" from the famed newsman who looks back over his storied and sometimes controversial career (Los Angeles Times). This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the...
In "a book to make the Grim Reaper laugh," the popular English humorist faces cancer and death with his sparkling trademark wit (Michael Palin). When some people are told they have only a few months to live, they might travel around the world or write their memoirs or...
Nunavut tigummiun! Hold on to the land! It was just fifty years ago that the territory of Alaska officially became the state of Alaska. But no matter who has staked their claim to the land, it has always had a way of enveloping souls in its vast, icy embrace. For...
“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times , Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “ a fresh, muscular and compelling...
The long-awaited final volume of William Manchester's legendary biography of Winston Churchill. Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the...
A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief: "Moving and complete and very much worth reading" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had...
What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea?Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he's now sailing off around the world as a ship's doctor - and with 3,000 passengers and crew to look after he's in for the most...
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its...
"Extraordinary . . . [this] series of true stories about the authentic nature of bears reveals them as the sensitive and intelligent beings they are." ―Carl Safina, New York Times–bestselling author of Becoming Wild and Beyond WordsGrizzly bears have long been feared...
"A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian...