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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir, spilling all the chai on her wild ride from escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path in America and launching...
The story of the five daughters of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time.Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a...
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle.Born in 1954,...
A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin."The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered." —Washinton PostIn 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish...
**THE AMAZON #1 MEMOIR, #1 HUMOR AND #1 TRAVEL BESTSELLER** There comes a time in every man’s life when he says to himself, "Holy sh*t! I’m about to be eaten by a bear!" Tony James Slater went to Ecuador, determined to become a man. It never occurred to him that 'or...
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for History/BiographyWinner of the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/BiographySelected as a Southwest Book of the Year Top PickRachel Carson Environment Book Award for Reporting on the Environment, Honorable MentionA...
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Autobiography: “A powerful story of the meaning of family and tradition inside a little-known culture” (San Francisco Chronicle).In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave...
A "marvelous" Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post).  Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICKA Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2024!One of Vulture's Best New Audiobooks of 2024."A delightful and sharp-witted tour through a lifetime’s worth of travel exploits and misadventures. . . . Readers...
"These letters, funny, touching, and occasionally harrowing, remind us that this great poet was a remarkable woman as well. Don't miss them." ―Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book WorldRobert Lowell once remarked, "When Elizabeth Bishop's letters are published (as...