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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...
The abolitionist author presents profound insight on the meaning of race and freedom in America in this memoir of slavery, escape, and reinvention.One of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement, Frederick Douglass was a major influence on...
The New York Times–bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of "the king of the world's booksellers."During the Renaissance, Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers blew the dust off a...
"[A] slim and elegant volume" of letters written by a contemporary artist to a Jewish family killed in the Holocaust (Maurice Samuels, The New York Times Book Review).Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from artist Edmund de Waal to Moise de...
Hailed as a “page-turning masterpiece” ( The Guardian ), this New York Times bestseller from a writer with “a knack for finding the most fascinating storylines in history” (David Grann) follows a little-know Russian double agent who helped stop a nuclear apocalypse....
A New York Times bestseller: One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova was just four years old when her family was first imprisoned in a concentration camp. She shares her story in this “heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive account from the 20th century’s...
The New York Times bestseller that inspired the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation ! Determined to clone an endangered orchid, John Laroche set out on an obsessive quest through a unique American underworld. This modern classic “will hold you utterly spellbound” (...
Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career in this “moving memoir” (The New York Times) that’s “everything a Jeopardy! fan could want” (The Washington Post).When he debuted as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek...
"This powerful work should soon be both widely admired and read alongside other tragic narratives of the Holocaust." —Women's Review of BooksWinner of the American Literary Translators Association AwardTranslated by Rosette C. LamontWritten by a member of the French...
EDGAR AWARD FINALIST • “A true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master.”—John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter“Barbara Rae-Venter isn’t just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killer—she’s an unsung...
