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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.
“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”—Publishers WeeklyLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” (Parade) from the author of Dad Is FatHave you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK  A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost...
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA...
“A book I’ve been waiting for most of my life . . . by a writer who is equally at home with Flannery O’Connor and Jacqueline Susann.” —Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist...
A new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide’s first-hand account of working in the...
Embark on a wild ride through the neuroscience of consciousness in this compelling study that “[sheds] light on how scientists really think”—hailed as “science writing at its best” (Times Higher Education).A scientist searches for an empirical explanation for...
“Amusing and informative . . . [this] hilarious [memoir] provides useful advice for the customer. . . . as delightful as it is irreverent.” —Washington Post Book WorldAccording to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to...
This moving biography is an ode to one of the most famous friendships of the 20th century and reveals the remarkable story of Anne Sullivan Macy, teacher of Helen Keller—and a complex, intelligent woman worth of her own spotlight. After many years, historian and Helen...
One woman's memoir about her alcoholism and struggle to flourish despite the looming shadow of a famous father and an emotionally abusive, damaged mother.Her mother was a brainy knockout with sultry beauty, a raconteur whose fierce wit could shock an audience into...