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"Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people...
The PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir.This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and...
FINALIST FOR THE 2026 KIRKUS PRIZE“Defiance takes my breath away. A nail-biting tale of astonishing courage.” —Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle “A heartbreaking account of a young woman’s struggle for freedom against the...
The Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years—and the Creation of a LegendIn 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would...
The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the...
From the beloved Python and New York Times-bestselling author, an "insightful and enjoyable" memoir/travelogue from his money-grubbing tour (The AV Club).A stunningly witty exploration of the American landscape—not to mention a brilliant comic's mind—this diary is...
"Engagingly traces Bess of Hardwick's astonishing rise, her . . . and her legacy as a patron of architecture and the decorative arts" (Wall Street Journal).Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business, Bess of Hardwick rose from humble...
A #1 New York Times bestseller named one of Time ’s 10 best nonfiction books of the 2010s: Written as a letter from father to son, this “titanic and timely” Pulitzer Prize finalist is “the latest essential reading in America’s social canon” ( Entertainment Weekly )....
A memoir of loss revealing "a most poignant meditation on the ironies of black identity in a postmodern, multicultural world" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the...
In this riveting portrait of George B. Schaller, the world’s leading field biologist, Miriam Horn captures the seventy years he spent living among wild animals in the world’s remotest regions, forever altering how we see—and save—the natural worldIn 1959, though just...
