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For fans of Natasha Trethewey and Maggie Smith, a mother-daughter story of multigenerational trauma, grief, discovery, and love, with the backdrops of an historic American tragedy and an iconic family business, written in lyrical, fragmented form.In 1960, six years...
The national-bestselling author of Mary Queen of Scots delivers a masterful biography of the Puritan rebel Oliver Cromwell: "Rich and extraordinary" (The New York Times). In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated...
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, "a sweeping, colorful, and absorbing biography that should restore Kosciuszko to his proper place in history" (Newsweek).Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the...
The national bestselling memoir of a friendship between a New England outdoorsman and the scrawny foxhound who came to his door one snowy day.In the midst of a blizzard, late one Christmas night in the 1950s, author Hal Borland heard a howl at the back door of his...
The "marvelously funny" and much-loved humorist explores the perils of suburban living in this New York Times bestseller (Vogue).For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children...
In this classic memoir, a distinguished journalist chronicles his son's battle with brain cancer that ended with his death at seventeen."If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness...
This insider's account of the NYC medical examiner's office takes readers from an average day in the autopsy room to the tragic aftermath of 9/11.For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office—the...
An Amazon Best of the Month Book"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden's most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." —The Wall...
“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the...
The bomber pilot whose bravery in the Battle of Midway changed the course of WWII recounts his story in this extraordinary memoir: "An instant classic" (Dallas Morning News).On June 4, 1942, above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss piloted his...
