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From the quietly profound to the wildly extraordinary, these personal journeys offer insight, inspiration, and a front-row seat to the human experience.
The acclaimed biographer tells the charming story of the First Lady's mission to bring the Mona Lisa to America in this "little gem of a book" (Good Morning America). In December 1962, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the...
One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness,...
It's the 1970s and newly qualified GP Edward Vernon has taken a job as an assistant to an elderly general practitioner in a small town in the English midlands. It is his first job in general practice; his first brave excursion into the dangerous world where patients...
National bestsellerAn ALA Notable BookThree-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to...
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am." ...
An international bestselling memoir about an Irishman who chose to live life to the fullest after his diagnosis of ALS.In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse,...
#1 New York Times Bestseller: This Irish writer's memoir is "a beautiful exploration of human loneliness and happiness, of contentment and longing" (Alice McDermott, The Washington Post). One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O'Faolain...
2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist2020 Sami Rohr Prize Finalist 2020 National Jewish Book Awards FinalistFleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story--the extraordinary saga of...
"Equal parts heartfelt and humorous," this memoir by comedian Dennis Leary's wife recounts the difficult birth of their child while on holiday in London (People).When Ann Leary and her husband, then unknown actor-comedian Denis Leary, flew to London in the early...
The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five...