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An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by...
A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceOne of The Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of June 2025The riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers.“Having left this material for his writer son, my father must...
“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14." —Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-LaThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean...
"A compelling account of the air war against Germany" written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV's Masters of the Air (Publishers Weekly). They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily...
Return to the golden age of entertainment, and discover the stories of forgotten showgirl icons, Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance.“Brilliantly captures an era long vanished, filled with stage mothers, slimy...
A former Scientologist offers a behind-the-scenes look at her time in—and escape from—the cultlike religion in this “intriguing, beautifully written memoir” (Literary Hub).“With its keen attention to the language and tactics of the church, Hall’s memoir is unique...
In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a...
A personal and cultural exploration of the struggles between art and business at the heart of modern Hollywood, through the eyes of the talent that shaped itMatthew Specktor grew up in the film industry: the son of legendary CAA superagent Fred Specktor, his childhood...
In this “fast-paced and charming…absorbing cultural history” (Publishers Weekly), Jennifer Keishin Armstrong presents an engaging behind-the-scenes look at the making of a classic and groundbreaking TV show that defined the sitcom genre and revolutionized the way...
“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live”...