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As a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. However, at age 32, with big dreams and few tools to actualize them, he...
A moving memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.A People Book of the WeekA Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year"A modern-day Sophie's Choice, this memoir about a mother's love for her child and...
A "haunting meditation on trust, hope and love" by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People). In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson's attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a...
One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies'I beg anyone who reads this account to bear in mind, for the love of the Lord, how wicked my life has been'Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the...
The love letters of Gerda and Kurt Klein, revealing one of the greatest love stories ever told.Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7,...
One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of the Year: "A superb biography . . . A definite study of Fermi's life and work." —The Wall Street JournalA Bloomberg Best Book of the YearA Finalist for Physics World's Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor's...
An NPR Best Book: "[Jolie's] story is both remarkable and utterly ordinary; any dreamy kid who grew up broke and weird will see a spark of themselves." ―The New Republic One of NPR's Best Books of 2020 Winner, Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal for LGBTQ+...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST • How does the greatest writer of our time tell her own story?"The most spectacular, hilarious, and...
A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year: Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his...
A look at the brutal, brilliant fourteenth-century ruler, by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England. Holding power for over fifty years starting in 1327, Edward III was one of England's most influential kings—and one who shaped the...