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Broadway World • "Theater Books for Your Winter 2025 Reading List"New York Times Book Review • "5 New Books We Recommend This Week"The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the Great American Songbook steps from behind his brother’s shadow.The first lyricist...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life.”—NPRThis edition includes an exclusive conversation between Meryl Streep and Anna Quindlen.In this irresistible memoir, Anna...
“Vets have a kind of double vision on the human experience. They see us as the clients who bring in the patients and pay the bill, but they also see our sins, flaws, and weirdness reflected in our animals. Dr. Skaggs recognized early on that this was a rich source of...
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this gripping Civil War history, Fox Business's Gerri Willis charts the making of a spymaster genius.Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk...
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women...
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, AND BOOKPAGE"Revelatory." --New York Times Book Review"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." --Laura van den Berg"Nothing short of a masterpiece.” --The San Francisco ChronicleInternationally...
Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a...
A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley—better known at that point by her outlaw...
A science reporter's account of a family, a genetic illness, and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw."A moving, suspenseful page-turner . . . Recalls two other classic tales of medical anthropology, Rebbeca...
A link to my website that contains a few pictures and blogs from my military life: https://www.harrydobson.co.uk/gallery LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA - The Legion is our fatherland. THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION is a legendary branch of the French army known for its severe...