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A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth.The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing river in the United States. In this riveting examination of one of the last wild places on earth, Adam...
The “remarkable…inspiring” (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record-setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic. “This is not just an engaging memoir about running....
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written...
Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons. "We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe...
The legendary silver screen actress's riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages—updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death."I have always been driven by some distant music—a battle hymn, no doubt—for I have been at war from the beginning. I...
From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is...
In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on...
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, "the most powerful and persuasive attack on Christian Science to have been written in this century" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Millions of Americans—from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R....
A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: "A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream" (The New York Times).In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family's migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at...
