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A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book A Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed and Real Simple An âunmissableâ (Vogue), âexceptionalâ (The Washington Post), and âevocativeâ (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of...
"The harrowing story of the slaughter of two million Pontic Greeks and Armenians in Turkey after WWI comes to vivid life. . . . eloquent and powerful." âPublishers WeeklyNot Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after WWI in Turkey, which brought to...
This phenomenal international bestseller is "an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand" (Washington Post).This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades...
Michelangelo's Notebooks is an intimate celebration of the artist's sketches, architectural drawings, letters, and love poems.Michelangelo Buonarroti is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century, not only in painting but in writing and...
The British actor, writer, and comedy legend tells his story: "Funny, poignant . . . His prose feels like an ideal form of conversation." âThe Washington Post A #1 Sunday Times Bestseller When Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge, he was a convicted thief, an addict, and...
As a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. However, at age 32, with big dreams and few tools to actualize them, he...
A moving memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.A People Book of the WeekA Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year"A modern-day Sophie's Choice, this memoir about a mother's love for her child and...
A "haunting meditation on trust, hope and love" by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People). In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson's attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a...
One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies'I beg anyone who reads this account to bear in mind, for the love of the Lord, how wicked my life has been'Born in the Castilian town of Ăvila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the...
The love letters of Gerda and Kurt Klein, revealing one of the greatest love stories ever told.Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7,...
